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Curriculum Vitae

Career Stage Details

Habilitation

Leibniz University Hannover, 2013

Habilitation thesis: Bollywood in Britain

Venia Legendi: British Literary and Cultural Studies

PhD

University of Regensburg, 1998–2003

Dissertation: Oscar Wilde in Roman, Drama und Film: Eine medienkomparatistische Analyse fiktionaler Biographien [Oscar Wilde in Novel, Drama, and Film: A Media-Comparative Analysis of Fictional Biographies]

Higher Education

University of Regensburg

1992–1998: MA in English and Romance Studies

2006: First State Examination for Teaching at Secondary Schools (English/French)

Period Position
Since 1.10.2015 Full Professor of English Cultural and Media Studies, University of Passau
April 2013 –
Sept. 2015
Research Assistant at the Chair for British Literature and Culture, Leibniz University Hannover
April 2011 –
March 2013
Interim Professor of English Literary and Cultural Studies, Technical University Braunschweig
Sept. 2008 –
March 2011
Research Assistant at the Chair for British Literature and Culture, Leibniz University Hannover
Oct. 2001 –
July 2008
Research Assistant at the Chair for English Literary Studies, University of Regensburg

Year Description
Sept. 2014 €17,800 from the Volkswagen Foundation for an international symposium on “Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation” at Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover (with PD Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger)
Oct. 2013 BritCult Award 2013 from the German Society for the Study of British Cultures for the postdoctoral thesis Bollywood in Britain
Jan. 2008 Travel grant from the University of Regensburg Alumni Association for attending the conference The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe in Oxford, UK
Sept. 2004 DFG travel grant for participation in the conference Prism! Where is that Baby? in Sydney, Australia
Mar. – May 2000 DAAD top-up scholarship for a 3-month research stay in London
Aug. 1999 – July 2001 Bavarian State Graduate Scholarship for doctoral research

  • Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS)
  • German Association for the Study of English
  • German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
  • European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
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