Curriculum Vitae

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10/2021-01/2023
Opening and completion of the habilitation process:

Cumulative Habilitation Thesis: HUMANIAL Narrative: Animal-Human Relationality from a Cultural-Historical Perspective.

Trial lecture and scientific talk: Explaining "Old Maere" anew: Media literacy promotion in the field of action of heroic narrative through self-produced explanatory videos.

Venia Legendi: German Literature, Older German Literature, Middle Ages to 1700

10/2022
Officer for University Management Affairs, Executive Director of the Extended Presidential Board, Science Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen, President's Office: Presidential Affairs and Committee Support (PB2) - German (uni-giessen.de)

04/2020-06/2021
Visiting Professorship "German Medieval Studies with a focus on Human Animal Studies", Institute for German Studies, University of Kassel

10/2019-04/2020
Visiting Professorship "German Medieval Studies", Institute of German Studies, University of Kassel

Since 2018
Research Assistant / Habilitandin in the Department of German Medieval Studies, Institute of German Studies with Prof. Dr. M. Mecklenburg, University of Kassel

2014-2017
Research assistant / Habilitandin of the interdisciplinary LOEWE-focus of the University of Kassel: "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft: Approaches to an Interdisciplinary Animal Research"

11/2015     
Awarded with the Förderpreis für wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs initiated by the Hebbelstadt Wesselburen and endowed in cooperation with the Friedrich-Hebbel-Gesellschaft

since 8/2014   
Collaboration on the research design for a research network on the thematic focus "Animal-Human-Society"

09/2014     
Scholarship of the Volkswagen Foundation to participate in the 3. Summer School of the junior researcher network "Cultural and Literary Animal Studies" at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg entitled "Zoological Aesthetics", 22-27.9.2014

04/2014-09/2015     
Mentee in the 3rd round of ProProf. Durchgang von ProProfessur a joint funding project of the five Hessian universities (Goethe University Frankfurt, Technical University Darmstadt, Justus Liebig University Giessen, University Kassel, Philipps University Marburg)

2013-2014     
Member of the interdisciplinary working group and collaboration on the research design of the interdisciplinary network on the topic "Gender - Inequality - Intersectionality. Research practice in interdisciplinary dialogue" 

07/2013     
Approval of the habilitation project "Humanimal Aesthetics. Semantics and Narrativics of Aesthetic Animal-Human Relations" within the LOEWE focus "Animal - Human - Society" (Granted from 2014 to 2016 by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, with the possibility of extension for one year)

05/2013     
Awarded the Arthur-Fandrey-Preis für wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs (prize for excellent dissertations of the University of Kassel)

01-05/2013     
Active collaboration on an application to the Central Research Funding (ZFF) of the University of Kassel of the IAG - Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung for the ZFF research focus "Normality and Order - Transdisciplinary Perspective on Gender" accepted since September 2013

since 10/2012     
Research assistant of Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde in the Department of Medieval Studies (University of Kassel; developing and working on a postdoctoral project)

since 8/2012     
Member of the interdisciplinary working group "Animal - Human - Society: Approaches to Interdisciplinary Animal Research". Collaboration on the research proposal for the 2013 approved LOEWE-focus (Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz)

11/2011     
Disputation in the field of German Medieval Studies: PhD completed with distinction

09/2011     
Submission of dissertation: publication (2/2014): "HeldenGeschlechtNarrationen: Gender, Intersectionality and Transformation in the Song of the Nibelungs and in Adaptations of the Nibelungs" published by Peter Lang Verlag

2010-2013    
Collaboration on the research design of an interdisciplinary network on "Gender Orders in Constellations of Change: Intersectional Dimensions of Inequality"

since 2009     
Active collaboration on the application for the Central Research Funding of the University of Kassel of the IAG - Women's and Gender Studies for a ZFF research focus "Inequalities in Gender Relations" accepted since October 2010

2008-2012     
Research assistant / PhD student with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde, German Medieval Studies 

01-10/2008     
Scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group "Public Spheres and Gender Relations. Dimensions of Experience" of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the University of Kassel

2007-2008     
Coordinator of the Kassel International Graduate Center for Social Sciences (KIGG)

2001-2007     
Studies of German and History for the teaching profession at grammar schools, University of Kassel, degree First State Examination, passed with distinction