Curriculum Vitae
Academic Career/Studium und wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
| Since 2016: | Vice President of the German Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Hamburg. |
| Since 2014: | Speaker of the interdisciplinary research group „Gesellschaftliche Legitimierung von Wissensbeständen - Vergleichende Perspektiven/ Social Legitimation of Knowledges – Comparative Perspectives“, German Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Hamburg. |
| 2014-2016: | Member of the Post-Graduate Project Group „Anoetik – Formen und Leistungen des Nicht-Verstehens/Anoetics – Forms and Potential of Non-Understanding“. |
| 2013-2014: | Co-speaker of the research group „Region, Nation, Europa: Merkmale ihrer Identität/Region, Nation, Europe: Markers of their Identities“ at the German Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Hamburg. |
| Since 2011: | Member of the German Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Hamburg. |
| 2009-2013: | Speaker of the interdisciplinary research group „Diskursivierung von Regulierungswissen in der Frühen Neuzeit /Discursivisation of Regulatory Knowledge in the Early Modern Period“, CAU Kiel (DFG-application 2010). |
| Since 2008 | Co-Editor of the literary journal Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU)/Literature in Research and Teaching. |
| Since 2000 | Full Professor (C4), Chair for English Literature at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. |
| 1998: | Visiting Professor at University of Maryland, College Park, USA. |
| Funktion: 1989 - 1991 Mitglied des Kleinen Senats als Vertretung des Wissenschaftlichen Mittelbaus der Universität Mannheim. | |
| 1995-2000: | Associate Professor at Mannheim University, Germany. |
| 1995: | Habilitation, Mannheim University, Mannheim, Germany. Venia legendi Englische Literaturwissenschaft. Thesis title: Alterität und Stereotyp. Zur Funktionalisierung nationalkultureller Differenz in den 'International Novels' von E.M. Forster und D.H. Lawrence. [Alterity and Stereotype. The Function of the Foreign in the ´International Novels´ of E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence]. |
| 1993-1995: | Research Grant of the DFG (German Research Foundation). |
| 1991-1992: | Maternal Leave. |
| 1987-1994: | Assistant Professor at the English Dept., Mannheim University, Germany. |
| 1987: | PhD in English Literature. Dissertation title: Erkenntnis und Realität. Sprachreflexion und Sprachexperiment in den Romanen von Richard Brautigan [Knowledge and Reality. Language Reflection and Language Experiments in the Novels of Richard Brautigan]. |
| 1984-1986: | PhD grant of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. |
| 1979: | 1. Staatsexamen, University Freiburg, English and German Literature. |
| 1978: | Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in English Literature (Honours-Student), University of California, Berkeley, USA. |
| 1975-1978: | Study of English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA. |
| 1973-1975: | Study of Philosophy, German and English Literature, University Freiburg, Germany. |
PostDoc Mentor (Habilitation) for:
Prof. Dr. Antje Kley, University Erlangen
Prof. Dr. Kai Merten, University Erfurt