Academic Education

2013

PhD. English. Graduate School Practices of Literature. WWU Münster.

2007

First State Examination. Philosophy. WWU Münster.

2006

First State Examination. English and German. WWU Münster.

2006

MA (Magistra Artium). English, German, and Communication Studies. WWU Münster. MA Thesis "Memoirs of the Abject: Herculine Barbin and Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex."

2002 – 2003

Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. English, French, and Spanish. Ball State University, IN, USA.

Positions

since 2017

Coordinator of the Graduate School Practices of Literature. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

2009 – 2010

Visiting Scholar. Literature Program. Duke University, NC, USA.

2008

Research Assistant. Department of Anglophone Studies. University of Duisburg-Essen.

since 2007

Research and Teaching Assistant. English Department. WWU Münster.

2007

Research Assistant. German Department/Graduate School Practices of Literature. WWU Münster.

2002 – 2003

Graduate Assistant. Department of Modern Languages and Classics. Ball State University, IN, USA.

External Functions

2018 – 2020

Member of the Research Advisory Board. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

2017 – 2018

Alternate Member of the Research Advisory Board. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

since 2015

Member of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)

2014 – 2018

Advisory Board Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)

2017

Advisory Member of the Admissions Committee for the MA Program "National and Transnational Studies." English Department. WWU Münster.

2016 – 2017

Alternate Member of the Admissions Committee for the MA Program "British, American and Postcolonial Studies." English Department. WWU Münster.

2013 – 2017

Coordinator of the MA Program "British, American and Postcolonial Studies." English Department. WWU Münster.

2014 – 2016

Alternate Member of the Joint of Committee of the Department of History/Philosophy and the School of Philology. WWU Münster.

2008 – 2014

Member of the Research and Young Scholars Committee. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

2007 – 2010

Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

since 2007

Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)

2007 – 2017

Member of the Academic Degree Committee. English Department. WWU Münster.

2008 – 2016

Member of the Faculty Council. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

2008 – 2014

Member of the Admissions Committee for Applicants without High School Diploma ("Abitur"). School of Philology. WWU Münster.

2008 – 2010

Alternate Member of the Faculty Council. School of Philology. WWU Münster.

• Thiemann Anna 2017: “„It’s imagination or it’s nothing‘: Re-Writing Operation Iraqi Freedom”. International Roundtable: Just War Theory in Literature, WWU Münster, Jul 6, 2017.
• Thiemann, Anna 2016: “Black Cinema in the Obama Era: Slavery, Freedom and the Ongoing Struggle for Rights”. The United States and the Question of Rights. 63th Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies, Universität Osnabrück, Germany, May 21, 2016.
• Thiemann, Anna 2015: “Siri Hustvedt and the Politics of Trauma”. Living, Thinking, Looking: An International Conference on the Writing of Siri Hustvedt, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, Oct 23, 2015.
• Thiemann, Anna 2015: “‘White Slavery’ in Seventeenth-Century Barbados”. Bound Labor in the Americas before the Abolition of Slavery: Legal Codifications, Transfers and the Harmonization of Practices, Poitier University, France, Oct 16, 2015.
• Thiemann, Anna 2014: “Biodiversity and American Racialism: The Birds of America and Jim Crow”. America after Nature: Democracy, Culture Environment: 61st Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies, Universität Würzburg, Germany, Jun 13, 2014.
• Thiemann, Anna 2014: “Hip-Hop Feminism: Postfeminist or Third-Wave?” Guest Lecture/Seminar: Criticial Issues in North American Studies, University of Münster, Germany, Apr 29, 2014.
• Thiemann, Anna; Kern-Stähler, Annette 2013: “‘We are, after all, expecting them to live the American Dream’: Cure and Recovery in the American Autiebiography”. Symposium: Narrative Matters in Literature, Linguistics and Medicine, Universität Basel, Switzerland, Apr 15, 2013.
• Thiemann, Anna 2012: “Altered States: Mental Dis/ability and the Cinema of the Senses”. Guest Lecture, Universität Bern, Switzerland, May 16, 2012.
• Thiemann, Anna 2012: „Jonathan Franzen und die Theologie der Freiheit“. Forum am Freitag: Autorschaft im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Politik, . Akademie Franz-Hitze-Haus, Münster, Germany, Apr 27, 2012.
• Thiemann, Anna 2011: “Reversing the Commodification of Life: Rebecca Skloot’s Narrative Science Writing”. Anglistentag 2011, Universität Freiburg, Germany, Sep 19, 2011.
• Thiemann, Anna 2011: “Shaking Patterns of Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt and Charlotte Perkins Gilman”. Literature and Medicine: International Conference, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, Feb 12, 2011.
• Thiemann, Anna 2010: “Cultural and Mental Economies in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections”. American Economies: 57th Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany, May 28, 2010.
• Thiemann, Anna 2010: “Orientalism and the Medical Gaze: John Updike’s ‘Metamorphosis’”. BODIES: 12th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, Feb 26, 2010.
• Thiemann, Anna 2009: “Neurorealism and the Contemporary Literary Imagination”. Scholars’ Forum on Literature and the History of Science, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, Jun 19, 2009.
• Thiemann, Anna; Kern-Stähler, Annette 2008: “Metaphor and (Dis)Embodiment: Inside the Autistic Mind”. International Conference: The Literary Mind, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany, Apr 12, 2008.
• Thiemann, Anna 2007: “American Neo-Realism: A Turn to Ethics in Contemporary Literature”. Ethics and/or Justice after Postmodernism: Revisioning Media, Politics and the Arts in the 21st Century, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Nov 24, 2007.