Professional experience
Since 2019 DAAD lecturer at the University of Debrecen, Hungary (German Department)
2016-2018 Lecturer at Université de Rabat, Morocco (Département d’Études Allemandes)
2013-2016 Free-lance translator and German language instructor, Berlin, Germany
2010-2011 Research assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA (Department of English and Comparative Literature)
Education
2013 PhD, English Philology, Freie Universität Berlin, magna cum laude
2010-11 visiting research student, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
2008 M.A., English Philology and German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Grants and scholarships (selected)
2019 DAAD Conference Travel Grant for participation in the conference Fragen zum
Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2018 DAAD Conference Travel Grant for participation in the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, USA
2017 Renaissance Society of America and Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant (to Chicago)
2016 Renaissance Society of America and Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant (to
Boston)
2010-11 Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellowship
2009-12 Cusanuswerk Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
2009 Society for Renaissance Studies Travel Bursary to Dublin, Ireland
Conference presentations (selected)
“Music as Will and Representation: Functions of Music in Philosophical Discourse”, International Symposium Research in the Arts, the Arts in Research. University of Lodz (online conference), May 2020
“Music and Anti-Music: Signs of DADA”, Conference “Inspirationen: Klänge” [Inspirations: Sounds], Department for German Language and Literature of the Gáspár Károli University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2019
“Mischform als Gattung? Zur Gattungspoetik Friederike Mayröckers”, [Hybrid/mixed form as genre? On the genre poetics of Friederike Mayröcker] Conference Fragen zum Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie [Questions on the Lyric in Friederike Mayröcker’s Poetry] , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 2018
“The Jailer’s Daughter’s Revenge”, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, USA, March 2018
“Music as emotion metaphor in Romantic and contemporary German literature, ” 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, Austria, July 2016
“Early Modern Temporalities: Time and Shakespeare’s Noble Kinsmen,“ 7th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow, UK, July 2016
“Star-crossed lovers: Troilus and Cressida’s Hector and Achilles as Figurations of Self and Other,“ Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 2016
“Digital Polychronicities: (Electronic) Music and Literature.” Interdisciplinary conference Music and Literature: Critical Polyphonies, Durham University, UK, July 2015
“Reading the Medieval Intertext in Shakespeare’s Pericles,“ Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, March 2015
Publications (selected)
Monograph
The Stage as Palimpsest: Conceptions of Time and Temporality in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Bibliotheca Academica, Reihe Literaturwissenschaft. Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag 2018.
Book chapters and articles
“Hybridität und Gattung. Versuch über die Gattungspoetik Friederike Mayröckers.” Inge Arteel/Eleonore de Felip (eds.), Fragen zum Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie. Metzler: Stuttgart 2020, pp. 1-16.
“Welcome to Interzone: Zwielicht von Robert Schumann aus dem Liederkreis op. 39 nach Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff. ” Bamberger Anthologie deutscher Lieder. Online-Anthologie, Universität Bamberg. https://deutschelieder.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/robert-schumann-zwielicht/
“Wortmaschine: Electronic Music in Contemporary German Literature, ” in: Postgraduate English No 31, 2015.
“(Un)heroic Madness: The Jailer’s Daughter as Playwright and Audience Figure in The Two Noble Kinsmen,” in: Shakespeare Seminar 13, 2015 (Publications of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, German Shakespeare Association).
Review
Andrew Wright Hurley. Into the Groove: Popular Music and Contemporary German Fiction. Rochester, New York: Camden House, Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, 2015. 282 pp. Modern Language Review 111:1, Jan. 2016, 390-391.