Education
8/2010 – 12/2016
1/2010 – 8/2010: 2/2009 – 12/2009: 1/2009: 8/2008: 7/2008: 9/2005: 2003 – 2004: |
Ph.D. Candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Ph.D. Candidate in the German-Italian Doctoral Research Group for Recent German Literature, Universities of Bonn, Germany, and Florence, Italy Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute for Recent German Literature and Media, University of Kiel, Germany Major (M.A. equivalent) in Philosophy, University of Kiel, Germany International Summer School, Zhejiang University/Hangzhou, PR China Double Major (M. A. equivalent) in German Literature & Linguistics and History, University of Kiel, Germany Summer School, German Historical Institute Rome, Italy Studies of Cultural Management as a Supplementary Subject, University of Kiel, Germany |
Professional Experience
2/2011 – present
10/2000 – 9/2001; 9/2002 – 8/2005 |
Editing Assistant for the "Amsterdamer Beitäge für neuere Germanistik" (ABnG)
Research Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Kiel/Chair of Modern and Contemporary History (Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelißen and Prof. Dr. Michael Salewski), including design and maintenance of department’s homepage, design of “Tutorial Reader Recent History,” as well as editorial assistance for the scientific review journal "Das Historisch-Politische Buch" |
Teaching Experience
8/2011 – present
1/2012 – present 8/2011 – 12/2011 5-6/2011 3/2007 – 7/2010 10/2004 – 3/2008 10/2001 – 5/2002 |
Teaching Assistant, Duke University
(Elementary German, 1st semester, 8 sts.; Elementary German, 2nd semester, 7 sts.) Course Chair for Second-semester German, Duke University Course Chair for First-semester German, Duke University Teaching Assistant, Duke in Berlin (Advanced German, 5th semester, 7 sts.) Advancement Instructor in the State Working Group of Independent Welfare Associations in Schleswig-Holstein (Landes-Arbeitsgemeinschaft der freien Wohlfahrtsverbände Schleswig-Holstein e. V.) as part of the Mercator Foundation supported program for the advancement of students of immigrant background: Instruction of German as a second language at German High Schools (diverse groups, 1-12 sts.) Student Instructor in the Institute for Recent German Literature and Media at the University of Kiel, teaching the course “Introduction Into Scientific Techniques“ (diverse groups, 14-39 sts.) Foreign Language Assistant for German as a Foreign Language in the Department of Germanic Studies/Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (First-Year German Conversation Class, 8 sts. / Intensive First-Year German Conversation Class, 4 sts. / Second-Year German Conversation Class, 6 sts. / Third- and Fourth-Year German Conversation Class, 9 sts. / First-Year German Grammar Tutorial, 5 sts.) |
Languages
German (native speaker)
English (near native) Dutch (intermediate knowledge) Italian (reading knowledge) Middle High German (reading knowledge) Latin (reading knowledge) Ancient Greek (reading knowledge) |
Further Qualifications
6-7/2002
Additional Training |
Project Work at the German Historical Museum Berlin, Project: Exhibition “The European Idea – Designs toward Permanent Peace”
Basics of Economics, Basic Elements of Business Management, project management, communication and discussion management, conflict management, time management, group projects and team development, transaction analysis |