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2025 - Senator, TU Braunschweig, and Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education
2023 - 2025 Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education, TU Braunschweig
2022 - 2023 Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education
From April 2013 Professor of English Literature ("Berufung, W3-Professur für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft“), TU Braunschweig
Spring 2010 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Leeds, UK
March 2007 Offered Chair of English Literature ("Berufung, W3-Professur für Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft"), TU Chemnitz (declined)
October 2006 to March 2013 Professor of English Literature ("Berufung, W2-Professur für Anglistik/Literaturwissenschaft"), Siegen University
1997 - 2005 Visiting Professor, Universities of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Madison; Vienna, Austria; Interim Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main; TU Chemnitz, Germany
June 2003 "Habilitation" completed. Received "venia legendi" in "Englische und amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften" for peer-reviewed post-doctoral dissertation on metaphors of industrialization and the 19th century novel
January 1991 - Summer 2005 Lecturer ("Wiss. Mitarbeiter", "Wiss. Assistent") at the Department of English and American Literature, University of Giessen, Germany
July - August 1994 Fulbright scholar on the American Studies Summer Course, New York University
June 1994 PhD ("Dr. phil., Fach: Anglistik") on TV playwright and screenwriter Dennis Potter, completed grade: "summa cum laude", University of Giessen, Germany
Activities and Academic Distinctions in the Research System
2025 - Editorial board, Mediendynamiken/Media Dynamics, Eds. Angela Krewani, Anke Finger, Amsterdam UP
2024 Jury, Rita-Süssmuth Research Award, State of North Rhine-Westphalia
2023 TUmorrow Teaching Award for the course „Digital Hub: International Perspectives on Environmental Humanities” (E. Voigts, B. Wahrig, R. Auer)
2022 - 2023 Project leader (with Heebon Park-Finch) “Transkulturelle Adaption und Appropriation: Ost-West-West-Ost“ (DFG/NRF National Research Foundation of Korea PN 511885994)
2020 Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title Award 2020, American Library Association for The Routledge Companion to Adaptation
2020 - Deputy spokesperson, TU Braunschweig Core Research Area “Future City”
2020 Programme director and re-accreditation process, MA Kultur der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Welt
2019 - 2022 Project leader “Automated creativity in literature and music” with Dietmar Elflein, Jan Röhnert, VolkswagenFoundation NMWK
2019 Co-organiser “Videographic criticism””, with Heike Klippel, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Thyssen Foundation
2019 - Trustee, Association of Adaptation Studies
2016 - 2019 Project leader “Hyphenated Cultures: Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre” with Jeanette Malkin, Hebrew University Jerusalem, VolkswagenFoundation NMWK € 249,000
2017 - 2018 Project leader, “HymM” on Teaching multimodality, teach4TU/BMBF
2016 Project leader, Teaching: Film Audio Commentaries, in medias res
2014 - 2017 Associated member of the Lichtenberg graduate programs “Konfigurationen von Mensch, Maschine und Geschlecht (KoMMa.G),“ (TU Braunschweig) and “Cultures of participation” (University Oldenburg/Lower Saxony)
2014 - Editorial board, Transmedia: Participatory Culture and Media Convergence, Eds. Dan Hassler-Forest, Matt Hills, Amsterdam UP
2013 - 2016 Co-editor of JCDE – Journal for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English with Martin Middeke, Christina Wald, Clare Wallace, DeGruyter
2013 - Honorary Fellow, De Montfort’s University, Leicester, UK
2010 - 2016 President of CDE (German Society for Theatre and Drama in English)
2010 - 2013 Steering Committee, Walter Scott Project, Edinburgh/Mainz (AHRC/DFG)
2010 Organiser, conference Adaptations across the Globe– Association of Adaptation Studies and the Centre of Adaptations, De Montfort University, Leicester, Centre for British Studies (GBZ) Berlin, DFG € 13,000
2009 Organiser conference “Darwin our Contemporary”, Siegen University, DFG
02/2010 – 05/2010 Leverhulme Trust Award, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Leeds, School of Performance and Cultural Industries
2009 - Editorial Board, Referee, Adaptation (Oxford University Press), Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (Intellect), Anglistik (Winter), Jena Electronic Studies in English Language and Literature (JESELL)
2007 - 2008 Project Leader “The Evolution of Darwinism – Re-Imaginations of Darwin and Cultures of Neo-Darwinian Ideas” (DAAD-AHRC PPP project: Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter, with Regenia Gagnier
2006 Organiser, conference “Adaptations”, British Council / CDE
2006 - Referee DFG (research projects, 2 x GRK), ZiF Bielefeld, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Oxford UP, Routledge, etc.
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