| Akademischer Lebenslauf |  | 
    
      | 2014 | Promotion, Graduate School Practices of Literature, WWU Münster | 
    
      | 01 - 05/2012 | Visiting Research Student, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) | 
    
      | 06/2010 - 06/2011 | Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Slavisch-Baltisches Seminar, WWU Münster | 
    
      | seit 04/2010 | Stipendiat der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | 
    
      | 10/2009 - 03/2010 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Englisches Seminar, Lehrstuhl Amerikanistik, WWU Münster | 
    
      | seit 10/2009 | Doktorand der Graduate School Practices of Literature | 
    
      | 01 - 07/2009 | ERASMUS-Stipendium Studium der Fächer Judaistik und Geschichte an der Universität Wien (A); Dissertationsvorbereitung
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      | seit 12/2008 | Lektor für FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies) | 
    
      | 11/2008 | Erstes Staatsexamen in den Fächern Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Philosophie Titel der Staatsarbeit:
 Filming The Scarlet Letter: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Wim Wenders
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      | 2006 - 2008 | Studentische Hilfskraft bei Prof. Maria Diedrich, Lehrstuhl Amerikanistik, WWU Münster | 
    
      | 2002 - 2008 | Studium der Fächer Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Philosophie und Geschichte an der WWU Münster sowie Concordia University Montreal (CAN) | 
    
      | Vorträge & Publikationen |  | 
    
      | 06/2018 | Domestic Sexual Violence in War: Sandra Uwiringiyimana’s Literary  Self-Recreation in the Context of Gender, Race, and the UN Refugee  Regime. Ethnicities and Kinship: Eleventh Biennial MESEA Conference (MESEA), University of Graz, Austria, Juni 2018
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      | 05/2017 | "Post-Soviet Jewish American Fiction Writers and Their Engagement with Race" Titel der Veranstaltung: American Colors: Across the Disciplinary Spectrum - The Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)
 Veranstalter: NAAS
 Ort: University of Southern Denmark, Odense
 Zeit: 22. - 24. Mai 2017
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      | 07/2016 | Re-Framing the "Nation of Immigrants"  and the "Einwanderungsland" in U.S.- and German-Based Post-Soviet Jewish  Literature: Yelena Akhtiorskaya and Olga Grjasnowa Veranstaltung: Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives
 Veranstalter: School of Jewish Theology Potsdam
 Ort: Potsdam & Berlin
 Zeit: 20. bis 22. Juli 2016
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      | 10/2015 | "The Jewish Origins of the American Self and the Case of (Post-Soviet) Jewish Migrant Fiction in the U.S. - and Beyond?", Veranstaltung: Transnational Perspectives on American Jewry. School of Jewish Theology Potsdam, Potsdam & Berlin vom 21. bis 23. Oktober 2015 | 
    
      | 08/2015 | "Into the Affiliative Post-Racial Future? The Problem of Adoption in Anya Ulinich’s Petropolis (2007)", Veranstaltung: Transnational and Transracial Adoption in North American Culture.
 Finnish American Studies Association (FASA), Universität Turku vom
 27. bis 28. August 2015
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      | 12/2014 | "Re-Negotiating the Americanization of Tevye: Intertextuality and Meta-Fiction in Nadia Kalman’s The Cosmopolitans". Vortrag auf der Konferenz: The New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production. Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York City vom 4. bis 5. Dezember 2014. | 
    
      | 05/2014 | Panel Chair "Border Crossing in European (and Other) Spaces" & Vortrag "Eastern Europe Unbound? Tracing the Jewish American Debate over 'the East' in Post-Cold War Discourse" Titel der Veranstaltung: Crossing Boundaries in a Post-Ethnic Era - 9th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA)
 Veranstalter: MESEA
 Ort: Universität Saabrücken
 Zeit: 29. Mai - 1. Juni 2014
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      | 2014 | “‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Being’: Negotiating Hybridity in Post-Soviet Jewish American Narrative.” Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation. Ed. Eleftheria Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, and Jopi Nyman. New York: Routledge, 2014. 213-25. | 
    
      | 11/2012 | Panel chair "The Double and the Uncanny." PGF 2012: Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies. Universität Marburg.
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      | 06/2012 | “Multicultural Conservatives: Russian Jewish Women Writers Forge the Contemporary American Self.” 59th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies. University of Mainz. | 
    
      | 05/2011 | “Race and the Politics of Representation: Reading Blackness in Petropolis.” 22nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association. The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA | 
    
      | 11/2010 | “The Russian Jewish Female Voice Re-Visited: Shifting Homes in Petropolis, U.S.” PGF 2010: Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies. Leipzig University. | 
    
      | 10/2010 | “Re-Visiting the Russian Jewish Female Voice: Finding Home in Petropolis, U.S.” Hotspots in Literary / Cultural Studies and Linguistics. Lecture Series. Münster University. | 
    
      | 06/2010 | “‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Being’: Negotiating Hybridity in Post-Soviet Jewish American Narrative.” Travel, Trade, and Ethnic Transformations: Seventh Biennial MESEA Conference. University of Pécs, Hungary. | 
    
      | 10/2009 | “Extending the Transnational: Post-Soviet Jewish American Literature.” Hotspots in Literary / Cultural Studies and Linguistics. Lecture Series. Münster University. | 
    
      | Administrative Hochschultätigkeiten |  | 
    
      | 04 - 12/2011 | Mitglied des Vorstands, Graduate School “Practices of Literature,” WWU Münster | 
    
      | 2010 | Mitarbeiter, Drittmittelantrag für das Hans-Böckler-Promotionskolleg “Literaturtheorie als Theorie der Gesellschaft,” WWU Münster | 
    
      | 11/2009 - 03/2011 | Mitglied des Auswahlausschusses, Graduate School “Practices of Literature,” WWU Münster | 
    
      | 2002 - 2008 | Mitglied des Fachschaftsrats Anglistik/Amerikanistik, WWU Münster | 
    
      | Akademische Mitgliedschaften |  | 
    
      |  | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA) | 
    
      |  | The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) |