EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2008-2012: Ph.D., German Literature
Dissertation: “From Rubble to Revolutions and Raves: Literary Interrogations of German Media Ecologies”
2006-2008: M.A., German Literature
Thesis: “The Interface as Door: On the Problem of Access to the Image in Kafka’s Das Schloß and Interactive Media”
Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
2005-2006: DAF Certificate (Teaching German as a Foreign Language)
Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
2003-2005: M.A. (Magister), British Cultural Studies
Minor: German Linguistics, American Studies
Thesis: “Der Wandel von Klassen-Stereotypen und assoziierten Vorurteilen in der englischen Fußball-Kultur der letzten Jahrzehnte”
1999-2003: B.A. (Zwischenprüfung), British Cultural Studies
Minor: German Linguistics, American Studies
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2019 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Affiliate Faculty of Film Studies
2013 – 2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Summer 2019, Faculty, Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Portland State University
2012 – 2013: Lecturer, Interim Director of the German Undergraduate Language Program, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Summer 2012 and Summer 2013: Faculty, Middlebury Language Schools, German School, Middlebury College
2006 – 2012: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill