Curriculum Vitae
10/2021-01/2023
Opening and completion of the habilitation procedure:
Cumulative habilitation thesis: HUMANIALES Erzählen: Tier-Mensch-Relationalität aus kulturhistorischer Perspektive
Trial lecture and academic discussion: "Alte Maere" neu erklären: Promoting media literacy in the field of heroic narrative through self-produced explanatory videos
Venia Legendi: German literary studies, older German literature, Middle Ages to 1700
10/2022
Officer for University Management Affairs, Managing Director of the Extended Presidential Board, Science Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Presidential Board: President's Affairs and Committee Support (PB2) - German (uni-giessen.de)
04/2020-06/2021
Visiting Professor "German Medieval Studies with a focus on Human Animal Studies", Institute of German Studies, University of Kassel
10/2019-04/2020
Visiting Professor "German Medieval Studies", Institute for German Studies, University of Kassel
since 2018
Research assistant / habilitation candidate in the Department of German Medieval Studies, Institute of German Studies with Prof. Dr. M. Mecklenburg, University of Kassel
2014-2017
Research assistant / habilitation candidate in the interdisciplinary LOEWE focus area at the University of Kassel: "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft: Approaches to interdisciplinary animal research"
11/2015
Awarded the prize for young scientists initiated by the Hebbelstadt Wesselburen and donated in cooperation with the Friedrich Hebbel Society
since 8/2014
Collaboration on the research design for a research network on the thematic focus "Animal-human society"
09/2014
Scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation to participate in the 3rd Summer School of the junior researcher network "Cultural and Literary Animal Studies" at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg with the title "Zoological Aesthetics", 22-27.9.2014
04/2014-09/2015
Mentee in the 3rd round of ProProfessorship. ProProfessur , a joint funding project of the five Hessian universities (Goethe University Frankfurt, Technical University Darmstadt, Justus Liebig University Giessen, University of 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 of "Gender - Inequality - Intersectionality. Research practice in interdisciplinary dialog"
07/2013
Approval of the habilitation project "Humanimal Aesthetics. Semantik und Narrativik ästhetischer Tier-Mensch-Relationierungen" as part of the LOEWE focus "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft" (approved from 2014 to 2016 by the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts, with the possibility of a one-year extension)
05/2013
Awarded the Arthur-Fandrey-Preis für wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs (prize for excellent dissertations at 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 - Women's and Gender Studies for the ZFF research focus "Normality and Order - Transdisciplinary Perspective on Gender", accepted since September 2013
since 10/2012
Research assistant to Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-vonon. 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 LOEWE focus approved in 2013 (State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence)
11/2011
Disputation in the field of German Medieval Studies: Doctorate completed with distinction
09/2011
Submission of dissertation: Publication (2/2014): "HeldenGeschlechtNarrationen: Gender, Intersectionality and Transformation im Nibelungenlied und in Nibelungen-Adaptionen" in Peter Lang Verlag
2010-2013
Collaboration on the research design of an interdisciplinary network on the topic of "Gender Orders in Constellations of Upheaval: Intersectional Dimensions of Inequality"
since 2009
Active collaboration on the application for central research funding from the University of Kassel's IAG - Women's and Gender Studies for a ZFF research focus on "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 "Öffentlichkeiten und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Dimensions of Experience" at 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
Studied German and history for the teaching profession at grammar schools, University of Kassel, graduated with first state examination, passed with distinction