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Curriculum Vitae: Professor Karsten Fitz

Year Description
Since 2024 Member of the Board of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA)
2021-2025 Member of the Board of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
2020-2023 Chairman of the Senate of the University of Passau
2017-2020 Vice-President of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)
2017-2019 Dean of the School for the Arts and Humanities
since Oct. 2007 Professor of American Studies/Culture and Media Studies at the University of Passau
Summer term 2007 Interim professor and chair (Lehrstuhlvertretung) of American Studies/Intercultural Anglophone Studies at the University of Bayreuth
Dec. 2006 Habilitation at the University of Regensburg; venia legendi: American Studies
2000 - 2007 Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg
2002/2003 Fulbright American Studies Fellowship of the German-American Fulbright Commission; research stay at Harvard University and at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA
Feb. 2000 Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies, University of Hanover
1998 - 2000 Instructor at the University of Regensburg, American Studies
1996 - 1998 Doctoral Fellowship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst
June - Aug. 1997 Travel grant by the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst: 3-months research stay at the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles
June - Sept. 1995 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): 3-month research stay at the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley; internship (three weeks) on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana
Winter term 1994/95 Instructor at the University of Hanover, English Department
1990/91 Student at the University of Washington, Seattle: English and Political Sciences (Honors Program in English)
1991 - 97 Free lance language trainer for English and German at the Continental Reifen AG Hanover; instructor of English at the Volkshochschule Langenhagen
1987 - 94 University of Hanover; M.A. in English/American Studies and Political Sciences
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