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Curriculum Vitae (Brief Version)

 

Work History

  • July 2013-June/2017 & July/2018-June 2023: Head, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada),
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of German (Abteilung für Germanistik) and Canadian Studies Centre, University of Trier (Universität Trier) (Germany), 1 January – 30 June 2018
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Fall Semester 2017
  • July 2012 - June 2013 (also Jan. - June 2010 and July - Dec. 2011): Acting Head, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada),
  • Since 30 March 2013: Full Professor, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada)
  • Research Affiliate of the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba (Canada), since Oct. 2012
  • Received Tenure as of 1 July 2010, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada)
  • Since 30 March 2009: Associate Professor, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada)
  • From 21 July 2004 till 30 March 2009: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada)
  • 2003/04: Visiting Lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • March 2001 – Aug. 2003: Humboldt-Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Institute for Research in the Humanities and German Department
  • Sept. 2000 – Feb. 2001: Tempus-Exchange-Lecturer at the University of Szczecin (Poland)
Education
  • December 1999: Dr. phil., University of Bielefeld, advisors Karl Heinz Bohrer and Christine Lubkoll, grade “summa cum laude” (with distinction)
  • 1997-2000: Associate member of the DFG-graduate program (‘Graduiertenkolleg’ of the German Research Foundation) Klassizismus und Romantik im europäischen Kontext (Classicism and Romanticism in the European Context), Gießen
  • Winter semester 1996-97: Visiting scholar at the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen
  • 1996-1997: Graduate student at the University of Bielefeld; visiting graduate student at Münster University
  • November 1995: Final Exam / Degree (Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt der Sekundar­stufen II/I – degree in professional teaching) in German and English; University of Bielefeld, Thesis on “The Modernity of Romantic Poetry” (advisor K. H. Bohrer)
  • 1992/93: University of Reading, Great Britain (English literature and politics)
  • 1990-1995: University of Bielefeld (German, English and philosophy)
  • May 1989: Hermann-Ehlers-Gesamtschule, Kamen, Abitur

Current Research

List of Publications

Teaching Experience

Fellowhips / Scholarships / Grants / Awards (selection)

National and International Grants and Scholarships (external funding)

  • 2020: Open Access Grant via Knowledge Unlatched (www.knowledgeunlatched.org) for the open access publication of The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Memory, Narrative, and Experience to Experientiality. Media and Cultural Memory 26. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020
  • 04/2014-03/2020: Insight Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the project Between national and transnational memories: World War II in the twenty-first-century museum in Europe and North America (Can. $ 86230)
  • 09/2016-08/2018: Connection Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the project CANADA 150: Perspectives on Cultural Genocide (24,783 Can. $), together with Adam Muller.
  • 01-03/2017: External fundraising for the exhibition “Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction”, together with Adam Muller, from the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Consulate General, Toronto, Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery Winnipeg, and the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre ($46,475)
  • 06-07/2012: Stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar 2012 “The Futures of Interdisciplinary German Studies” at Cornell University (US$ 3200)
  • 10/2011: Publication Grant by the Boehringer-Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften, for Performative Geschichtsschreibung: Forster, Herder, Schiller, Archenholz und die Brüder Schlegel, Hermaea 125. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2011, grant of €2000
  • 2006-2010: Standard Research Grant by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for the project “Narratological and Aesthetic Challenges for German Historiography 1800 and 2000” (40983 Can. $)
  • 02/2008-01/2011: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) program: Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada, for the research workshop Depiction and Definition: Representing War across the Disciplines , Winnipeg, March 8/9, 2008 (7781 Can. $), together with Elena Baraban, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford
  • June 2004: Weimar-fellowship from the “Stiftung Weimarer Klassik” (Foundation of Weimar Classicism) for one month of archival work in Weimar
  • March 2003 – Aug. 15, 2003: Interim Fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation ( Bonn, Germany)
  • Nov. 8-10, 2002: Volkswagen-Foundation ( Hannover, Germany): “ Subject and History” (Organization of an International Interdisciplinary Conference in Giessen, Germany), Conference grant of 7000 €
  • March 2001 to Feb. 2003: Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation (Bonn, Germany) for postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) for the project “The Artistic Writing of History”
  • 2001: Publication Grant for the book Theorie lyrischen Ausdrucks, by the VG Wort
  • Jan. 1997 to Dec. 1999: Dissertation Scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” (Study Foundation for the German People)

Internal Grants and Funding (selection)

  • 01-03/2017: University of Manitoba Outreach Grant for programming with the exhibition “Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction”, together with Adam Muller ($5110)
  • 3-5 Feb. 2017: Grant by the Dean of Arts, ($1000); Conference Sponsorship Grant (VP Research) ($500), University of Manitoba, for research symposium entitled “Cultural Genocide in Comparative Perspective: Indigenous Studies and the Holocaust,” in relation with the exhibition “Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction”, ( Jan. 28-March 4, 2017) further fundraising of $3000 from 11 other units at the University of Manitoba
  • Aug. 2015: UM/SSHRC Travel Grants Program (TGP), University of Manitoba; to attend the IVG (International Association of Scholars of German Studies)-Congress “Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation / German Studies between Tradition and Innovation” in Shanghai, China, grant of 1500 Can. $.
  • Aug. 2015: Conference Travel Award by the Dean of Arts, University of Manitoba for Conference travel to the IVG-Congress “Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation / German Studies between Tradition and Innovation” in Shanghai, China , grant of 1000 Can. $
  • April 2014– March 2015: Faculty of Arts Endowment Funds, University of Manitoba, Establishment of German Historical Film Collection pre-1945 (Weimar Republic, Third Reich, World War II) in the Language Centre of the University of Manitoba (1025 Can. $)
  • July 2013 - June 2014:SSHRC Insight Grant Bridge Funding from the University of Manitoba for “Representing the Second World War in the Twenty-first-century Museum in Poland and the U.S.” (Vice President’s Office Research and International / Faculty of Arts), $6243
  • May 2013 - June 2014: University Research Grant Program (URGP), University of Manitoba; project title: “21st Century World War II Museum Narratives in Germany, Britain, and Central Europe,” 7429 Can. $
  • August - October 2012: SSHRC Insight Grant Bridge Funding from the University of Manitoba (Vice President’s Office Research and International / Faculty of Arts), $4226
  • Conference Grant by the Dean of Arts, University of Manitoba for the International and Interdisciplinary Conference “Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atrocities,” University of Manitoba, Oct. 11-13, 2012 ($1000), further fundraising of $2050 from 10 other units at the University of Manitoba)
  • Travel Conference Sponsorship Award, $2000, University of Manitoba for the International and Interdisciplinary Conference “Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atrocities,” University of Manitoba, Oct. 11-13, 2012
  • 05/2010-09/2011: UM/SSHRC Research Grant Program, University of Manitoba; project title: “Historiographical Narratology and German World War II representation,” grant of 6900 Can. $
  • 01/2011: Publication Grant by the Dean of Arts, University of Manitoba for Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Discipline. Ed. Elena Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, Adam Muller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, grant of 1000 Can. $
  • 07-08/2010: UM/SSHRC Travel Grants Program (TGP), University of Manitoba; to attend the IVG-Congress “Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit / Diversity and Unity of German Studies around the World” in Warsaw (30 Jul.–07 Aug. 2010), grant of 1200 Can. $
  • 07-08/2010: Conference Travel Award by the Dean of Arts, University of Manitoba for Conference travel to the IVG-Congress “Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit / Diversity and Unity of German Studies around the World” in Warsaw (30 Jul.–07 Aug. 2010), grant of 800 Can. $
  • 2006-2008: Together with Elena Baraban, Slavic Studies and Adam Muller, English, funding by the University of Manitoba – Institute for the Humanities for the newly introduced research cluster “Representations of War,” renewed in 2007 (5000 Can. $)
  • Travel Conference Sponsorship Award, University of Manitoba ($500) for Research workshop Depiction and Definition: Representing War across the Disciplines March 8,9, 2008, together with Elena Baraban, Slavic Studies and Adam Muller, English (Nov. 2007)
  • Conference Travel Award by the Dean of Arts, University of Manitoba ($600) for Conference travel to the International Humboldt-Symposium “Beautiful but Incomprehensible: Georg Trakl and Literary Modernity” in Szeged, Hungary, Sept. 26-29, 2007 (Sept. 2007)
  • April 2005 – March 2006: Faculty of Arts Endowment Funds, University of Manitoba, together with Dr. Cheryl Dueck, Establishment of a German Film Collection at the University of Manitoba (2750 Can. $)
  • January 2005 – March 2006: University Research Grant Program (URGP), University of Manitoba; project title: “Narratological and Aesthetic Challenges for Late 18 th Century German Historiography, grant of 7500 Can. $
  • Jan. 1996 to July 1996: Research assistant scholarship at the Faculty for Literature and Linguistics (Bielefeld)

Awards (selection)

  • 2019 & 2020: University of Manitoba nominee for SSHRC Connection Award (together with Adam Muller)
  • 2019: University of Manitoba Merit Award for outstanding achievements in Research (3000 Can. $)
  • 2011: University of Manitoba Merit Award for outstanding achievements in Research (3000 Can. $)
  • 2006: University of Manitoba Merit Award for outstanding achievements in Teaching, Research & Service (3000 Can. $)
  • 2006: Nominated for the SSHRC ( Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Aurora Prize for outstanding new researcher in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Professional Service (selected)

Editor

Conference and Exhibition Organization (selected)

  • Co-organization (together with Belinda Kleinhans) of Annual Meeting of Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG) at the Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Edmonton, Alberta (University of Alberta), 29 May-2 June 2021
  • Co-organization (together with Natalie Eppelsheimer) of GSA-Seminar “ Holocaust Tourism Revisited: Holocaust Memorial Culture between Education, Tourism, and Commemoration, ” at the GSA (German Studies Association) Annual Conference 2020, Washington, D.C., 2-4 Oct. 2020
  • Co-organization (together with Belinda Kleinhans) of Annual Meeting of Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG) at the Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities in London, Ontario (University of Western Ontario), planned for 29 May-1 June 2020, cancelled because of COVID-19
  • Co-organization (together with Belinda Kleinhans) of Annual Meeting of Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG) at the Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Vancouver (University of British Columbia), 31 May-3 June 2019
  • Exhibition “Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction” (27 Jan.-4 Mar. 2017) & Research Symposium “Cultural Genocide in Comparative Perspective: Indigenous Studies and the Holocaust” (Feb. 3-5, 2017), together with Adam Muller
  • Conference Section Zeitreisen. Historische Romane im neuen Jahrtausend (Time Travel: Historical Novel in the New Millennium) for the 2015 Congress of the IVG (International Association of Scholars of German Studies), Tongij-University, Shanghai, China, together with Elena Agazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Daniel Fulda (University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) (23-29 Aug. 2015)
  • Organization / Conference Chair of 53rd Conference of the Languages and Cultures Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota (LCMND), "Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atrocities," Winnipeg, University of Manitoba & Inn at the Forks; Oct. 11-13, 2012; see http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/german_and_slavic/3278.html
  • Co-organization (together with Elena Baraban, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford) of the research workshop Depiction and Definition: Representing War across the Disciplines, Winnipeg, March 8/9, 2008, sponsored among others by the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
  • Member of the steering committee of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) in Winnipeg (17.-20. Oct. 2007)
  • Co-organization of the conference "Historisierte Subjekte – Subjektivierte Historie. Zur Verfügbarkeit und Unverfügbarkeit von Geschichte" ("Historicized Subjects – Subjectivized History. About the Availability and Non-Availability of History") in Gießen, with Stefan Deines and Ansgar Nünning, sponsored by the Volkswagen-Stiftung (VW Foundation) (08.-10. Nov. 2002)
  • Co-organization of the conference "Das Denken der Sprache und die Performanz des Literarischen um 1800" (“The Thinking of Language and the Performance of the Literary around 1800”) in Wetzlar, with Stefan Willer; sponsored by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (04.-07. Feb.1999)

Work on Committees / Administrative positions (selected)

  • Co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Network “War and Violence” of the German Studies Association (GSA), 2013-2017
  • Graduate Chair of the Department of German and Slavic Studies (July 2007-June 2012; since July 2019), Graduate Advisor for German (since Sept. 2007)
  • Undergraduate Honours Advisor in German, University of Manitoba (since Sept. 2005)
  • Acting Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies (Jan. 1 - June 30, 2010; July 1 –Dec. 31, 2011, July 1, 2012-30 June 2013)
  • Acting Director Language Centre Faculty of Arts (2014-2017, Feb.- Dec. 2020)
  • Chair of University of Manitoba’s Regional Advisory Group (RAG) for the German-Speaking World (2015-2017)
  • Departmental representative on the Course & Program Approvals Committee (CPAC) of the Faculty of Arts (Jan. 2005-Dec. 2012)
  • Board member / CPAC representative (2005-2012)of the Program for Central and Eastern European Studies (since 2004)
  • Program Chair (together with Belinda Kleinhans) Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG) for organizing the Annual Meetings at the Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Vancouver (University of British Columbia) in 2019 and London (University of Western Ontario) in 2020, Edmonton (University of Alberta) in 2021, 2018-2021
  • Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG), 2010-2012
  • Board of Directors Member at Large/Regional Representative, Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG) (2006-2008, 2012-2017)
  • Chair of the Dissertation Award Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG), 2007-2009 & 2009-2011
  • President of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North-Dakota 2012 (Vice President in 2011)
  • Reader/Peer Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Seminar,History & Memory, German Politics and Society, Forum Deutsch, European Romantic Review, Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, Canadian Association of University Teachers in German, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, Toronto University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Duke University Press, national and international promotion (to Associate Professor & to Professor) & tenure reviews, Canadian program reviews, and internal applications at the University of Manitoba
  • Member of Faculty of Arts Research Committee, 2019-2021
  • Member of Dean of Arts Advisory Committee on Teaching Guidelines, 2017-2019
  • Member of the advisory committee to the Dean of Arts in regard to Strategic Research Planning of the Faculty of Arts (2010-11)
  • Member of advisory committee to the Dean of Arts in regard to planning future programs and uses for University College, University of Manitoba (2010)
  • Member of Steering Committee for Workshop on "The Impact of Changes in European Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities", International Office, University of Manitoba (2010)
  • Member of Faculty Executive Committee, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba (Jan. 1 – June 30, 2010)
  • Member of the Sub-Committee of the Faculty of Arts for University of Manitoba Graduate scholarships (UMGF’s) (2009-2011)
  • Regional Representative (member of the board of directors) for Saskatchewan/ Manitoba, Canadian Association of University Teachers in German (CAUTG), 2006-2008 & 2012-2014
  • Chair of search advisory committee for Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in Ukrainian and Russian Comparative Politics Department of German and Slavic Studies & Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba (2019-20)
  • Chair of search advisory committee for Instructor Position in German Studies (term 3 years), Department of German and Slavic Studies (2018-19)
  • Chair of search advisory committee for Continuing Instructor Position in German, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (2011)
  • Member of Search Advisory Committees for Russian Literature, German Contemporary Literature, Chinese Language, Ukrainian Language; Political Theory, Headship German and Slavic Studies and English, Film and Theatre (University of Manitoba 2004-2011)
  • Member of seven enure and promotion committees, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba (Since 2006)
  • Undergraduate Advisor in German, University of Manitoba (Sept. 2005 - June 2012)
  • Student advisor at the Faculty for Literature and Linguistics, University of Bielefeld (Oct. 1993 – Sept. 1996)
  • Member of the faculty conference ("Fakultätskonferenz") at the Faculty for Literature and Linguistics, University of Bielefeld (Oct. 1993 – Sept. 1995)