CV in English



Since April 2010

 

 

 

Reinhart Koselleck Project “Global Theatre Histories (1860-1990)

Ludwig Maximilians- University Munich

 

· Scientific Coordinator and PostDoc

www.global-theatre-histories.org

 

July 2008/ January 2009- February 2010

 

Cluster of Excellence “Asia & Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University (www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de)

 

· Coordinator and Lecturer of the Graduate Program for Transcultural Studies (GPTS)

· PostDoctoral Researcher, Research Project Difference, Danger, and New Urban Imaginaries of the Publics in Asia and Europe (B11)

(http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/b-public-spheres/b11.html)

 

March – December 2008

 

Heidelberg University, SfB Ritualdynamik (i.e. Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Rituals, funded by the DFG)

 

· deputyship

 

Sept - December 2007

 

Columbia University & Barnard College, New York, German Dept.

 

· Guest Lecturer (Gastdozentin)

(co-funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD))


 

 

 

October 2006-February 2008

 

University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn", Leipzig

 

· Research Associate

and Assistant Lecturer

 

April 2006

 

Barnard College, New York City


 

· Assistant Lecturer German Dept.

 

 

Jan 2006 until present

 

· Freelance writer

 

(focus on columns on sport, fitness, lifestyle, ‘wellness’; online and print (magazines and newspapers)

since 2009 regular column in the Triathlon Magazin (www.trimag.de))

 

 

2001 - 2005

 

University of Mainz, International PhD Program ‘Performance and Media Studies’

 

· Doctorate

PhD-thesis on: Pictorial Dramaturgy. Theatre and visual culture in 19th century Germany (1869-1899)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme

 

 

 

 

January to April 2005

 

Goethe-Institute New York

 

· internship with the Program Department (Dr. Dieta Sixt & Juliane Wanckel)

 

2004

 

Dept. of Theatre Studies, University of Mainz

 

· Assistant Lecturer

 

2002-2003

 

University of Mainz, International PhD Program (IPP) ‘Performance and Media Studies’



 

· Assistant coordinator of the IPP

 

2000-2002

 

Hochschule für Musik Köln/ Academy of Music, Cologne, Dept. of Dance + SfB Kulturelle Inszenierungen von Fremdheit im 19. Jahrhundert (Collaborative Research Center Representations of ,Otherness' in the 19th Century) (funded by the DFG)

 

· Research Associate with Prof. Dr. Claudia Jeschke

 

 

1999-2002

 

University of Mainz, Theatre Dept. research project: Polynesian Performance Culture (funded by the DFG)



 

· Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme

 

 

 

 

2000

 

· Final exam (M.A., University of Mainz)

title of the dissertation:

Stereography and Theatre

 

1995-2000

 

1997-2000: University of Mainz

1995-1997: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Study

 

· Theatre Studies and audiovisual Media

· German Philology

· Art History

· Musicology

 

Grants

 

· DAAD (2004, 2007)

· German American Fulbright Commission (2003)

· Stipend of the University of Mainz (2000)

· Travel Stipends by the (DFG)

 

Affiliations/ Memberships

 

· International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT)

· Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft (GTW)

· American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

· Fulbright-Alumni



· Cluster of Excellence Asia & Europe in a Global Context

· Gesellschaft für Urbanisierungsforschung

· Dramaturgy Working Group of the GTW

 

 

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