Sandra is a native of Kiel, Germany and received her First State Examination (M.A. equivalent) in German Studies (Germanistik), History and Philosophy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 2008/2009. While studying in Kiel, she was a student assistant at the Chair of Modern and Recent History, where she also worked as an editing assistant for the scientific review journal Das Historisch-Politische Buch. Moreover, she worked as a tutor at the Institute for Recent German Literature, where she taught academic writing and research strategies, completed Cultural Management as a supplementary subject in Kiel, participated in a summer program at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou/PR China and spent an academic year at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, where she attended courses and taught German as a foreign language. Before joining the Carolina-Duke program, she worked on her PhD in Kiel and at the German-Italian doctoral research group recent German literature at the Universities of Bonn and Florence. Sandra’s research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth century German literature, particularly the works by Christoph Martin Wieland, Karl Philipp Moritz, Jean Paul, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, et al. In 2014, Sandra was awarded the Graduate Student Essay Award by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) for the article “Offene Welt – Beschränktes Glück: Jean Pauls das ‚Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Wutz‘ als literarisches Zeugnis einer Übergangsepoche,” which has been published in the German Quarterly.