Während ihres Studiums der Anglistik/Amerikanistik und evangelischen Theologie verbrachte sie zwei Semester als Teaching Fellow am Hamilton College in Clinton, New York (2003-2004). 2007 war sie Teilnehmerin am Fulbright American Studies Institute an der San Francisco State University; 2011 Fellow im Salzburg Global Seminar in American Studies.
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“Detroit, City of Possibilities: Constructing the Urban as Frontier”. RAAS – Fulbright Conference on Remapping Urban Spaces – American Challenges, Constanta, Romania, October 2012.
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with Meagan Elliott (University of Michigan). “Reading Ruhr/Detroit”. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen, Germany, September 2012, with Meagan Elliott
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“Family Secrets: A Relational Reading of Contemporary Mixed Race Memoirs”. German Association of American Studies Conference (DGfA-Tagung), Mainz, Germany, June 2012.
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“‘I am the Martin Luther King dream. I am the new America’: American Identity and Exceptionalism in Contemporary Mixed Race Autobiography.” Hungarian Association of American Studies Conference (HAAS 9), Eszterhazy Karoly College, Eger, Hungary, May 2012.
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“‘No clamor for a kiss’: The Politics of Forgiveness in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” University of Debrecen, Hungary, May 2012.
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“Space, Culture, and the Past in the American South”, Birzeit University, Palästina, September 2011.
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“The Dortmund Westend: Urban Transformation in the Ruhr Region”, Birzeit University, Palästina, September 2011.
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“Public Genealogies and Legitimacy”. Southern American Studies Association (SASA), Atlanta, GA, USA, Februar 2011.
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““I am the new America”: Reconsidering “American-ness” in the Age of Obama”. IDEA Colleque, Nancy, Frankreich, September 2010.
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“From Onkel Toms Hütte to the Spirit of Georgia: The American South in German Popular Culture”. Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, New Orleans, LA, USA, April 2010.
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“Toward a Cosmopolitan Memory? History, Memory and the Debate Around Slavery in the Contemporary United States”. Nordic Association of American Studies Biennial Meeting, Kopenhagen, Dänemark, Mai 2009.
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“'I Am in All America. All America Is in Me.'” – Negotiating Identity in Contemporary Multiracial Autobiographies”. Postgraduate Forum, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, November 2008.
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“Finding Roots, Marking Kinship: Unsettling Family, Memory, and Genealogy”. Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Williamsburg, VA, USA, April 2008.
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“Family Secrets: Memory, Roots, and South’s Bi-Racial Heritage in Contemporary American Fiction”. Olomouc American Studies Colloquium, Olomouc, Tschechische Republik, September 2007.
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"Kulturkonferenz Ruhr" (Essen, September 2012)
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“Fulbright – Committed to the Future” – 20th Anniversary Conference of the Hungarian Fulbright Commission (Budapest, Hungary, May 2012)
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"Ninety Years of U.S.-Hungarian Diplomatic Relations" (Budapest, Hungary, May 2012)
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"The Health of the Nation – Meeting of the European Association of American Studies" (Izmir, Turkey, April 2012)
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“Culture in/and Crisis” (Antwerpen, Oktober 2011)
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“Continuity and Change in US Presidential Foreign Policy: Plans, Policies, and Doctrines (Salzburg Global Seminar in American Studies, Oktober 2011)
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“Von der Kulturhauptstadt zur Kulturmetropole” (Dortmund, September 2011)
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“Auf dem Weg zur Kulturellen Bildung im Digitalen Zeitalter“ (Dortmund, September 2011)
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“Urbane Landwirtschaft – Optionen für NRW“, Symposium des M:AI im Rahmen der Ausstellung “Post-Oil-City: Die Stadt nach dem Öl“ (Alsdorf, Juni 2011)
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“Wandel durch Kultur – was bleibt? RUHR.2010 und Turku 2011 im Dialog” (Essen, Mai 2011)
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“Pro Interkultur” (Essen, Mai 2011)
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Integrationskongress der Stadt Dortmund (Dortmund, Mai 2011)
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“Peoples, Publics and Places of the South”, Biennial Meeting of the Southern American Studies Association (Atlanta, GA, USA, Februar 2011)
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“Learning for Ruhr – Lernen für Ruhr: Werkstatt für die Zukunft polyzentraler Metropolen“, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (Dortmund, Oktober 2010)
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"Arts for Education! - Internationales Symposium zur Kulturellen Bildung in Europa" (Essen, Oktober 2010)
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"Nationalisme et légitimité", IDEA Colloque International (Nancy, Frankreich, September 2010)
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“Urbanität gestalten: Zukunftsszenarien für die Städte des Ruhrgebiets“ (Essen, Mai 2010)
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"Everybody loves you when you're down and South: Cultural Capital in Hard Times", Biennial Meeting of the Society of the Study of Southern Literature (New Orleans, LA, USA, April 2010)
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"A World Without Walls": An International Congress on Soft Power, Cultural Diplomacy and Interdependence (Berlin, November 2009)
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"(Mis-)Representations: Trauma Discourses and Cultural Productions". Postgraduate Conference (Zürich, Schweiz, Oktober 2009)
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"Cosmopolitan America? The United States in Transition". Biennial Meeting of the Nordic Association of American Studies (Kopenhagen, Dänemark, Mai 2009)
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PGF: Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (Münster, November 2008)
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“Almighty Dollar“. Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association of American Studies (Velden, Österreich, Oktober 2008)
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“Southern Roots and Routes”. Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, April 2008)
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“American Values”, Fulbright American Studies Colloquium (San Francisco, CA, Oktober 2007)
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“The American South: Home and Abroad”, Olomouc American Studies Colloquium (Olomouc, Tschechische Republik, September 2007)
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“International Dialogue on Education (ID-E)” (Berlin, April 2007, October 2008)
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“Ambivalent Americanizations" (Leipzig, November 2006)
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Reading: “High Culture, Low Culture: The Dortmund Westend,” LODE-PORT – International Excellence School of Innovative Approaches in Regeneration Planning and Design of Low Density Urbanized Polycentric Regions in Transformation, TU Dortmund University, September 2012.
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Workshop with Walter Grünzweig and Meagan Elliott: “Cultural Landscape Ruhr Identity,” LODE-PORT – International Excellence School of Innovative Approaches in Regeneration Planning and Design of Low Density Urbanized Polycentric Regions in Transformation, TU Dortmund University, September 2012.
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Exhibition: “Ruhr|Ruin Porn?,” TU Dortmund University, July – October 2012, curator.
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Co-organizer: German program for Elizabeth Rosner (author/Berkeley, CA) to Germany, April 2012, moderator of a conversation between Elizabeth Rosner and Dortmund students.
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Workshop with Walter Grünzweig: “Dialogic Teaching in the Intercultural Classroom,” Education Day, Haagse Hogeschool, The Hague, Netherlands, November 2011.
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Co-organizer: German program for Senator George McGovern to Germany, October 2011.
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Workshop: “Interkulturelle Kompetenz durch Kulturelle Bildung?” (Developing Intercultural Competence through Arts Education), Dortmund, September 2011.
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Workshop: “Urbane Landwirtschaft – eine Alternative für NRW?“ (Urban Agriculture - an Option for Northrhine Westphalia?), Aachen, May 2011.
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Workshop: “Foster Global Citzenship through the Arts.” Transatlantic Dialogue: Living Culture in the University, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, May 2011.
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Exhibition: “Auf den zweiten Blick: Architektur der Nachkriegszeit in NRW.” (Architecture of the Postwar Period in North Rhine-Westphalia) in the “Dortmunder U – Center for Arts and Creativity”, September 2010 – November 2010, co-organizer.
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Exhibition: “U-Westend: Ein Stadtteil im Dortmunder U.” (U-Westend: An Urban Area in the Dortmunder U) in the “Dortmunder U – Center for Arts and Creativity”, July – September 2010, co-organizer.
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Workshop: “Walking in the Westend: The Transformation of an Urban Wasteland into a Creative Space,” Space Collective, Dortmund, June 2010.
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Panel Moderator: “Creative Cities—Framing Creative Spaces”, CultureEntrepreneurshipForum, Dortmund, June 2010.
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Exhibition: “tu|kultur”– Eröffnungsausstellung der Fakultäten der Technischen Universität Dortmund (Opening Exhibition of the Faculties of TU Dortmund University) in the Dortmunder U – Center for Arts and Creativity, May – July 2010, co-organizer.
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Exhibition: “Creative Spaces – A Metropolis in the Making,” Faculty of Culture Studies, TU Dortmund University, October 2009, co-organizer with Sina Nitzsche.
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Workshop: “Culture, Politics and Society in the American South.” Fridjof Nansen Akademie, Ingelheim, Germany, November 2009.
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Reading Performance with students: “Our Hell in High Water” about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Dortmund, February 2009 and June 2009.
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Ringvorlesung Berufsfeld Kulturwissenschaften. WiSe 2012/13, TU Dortmund.
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Ruhrbanität II. WiSe 2012/13, with Walter Grünzweig, Martina Oldengott, Christa Reicher, TU Dortmund.
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Post-Industrial. WiSe 2012/13, TU Dortmund.
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Ringvorlesung Berufsfeld Kulturwissenschaften. SoSe 2012, TU Dortmund.
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Ruhr|Detroit. SoSe 2012, TU Dortmund.
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Ringvorlesung Berufsfeld Kulturwissenschaften. WiSe 2011/2011, TU Dortmund.
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Ruhrbanität/ Erprobungs- und Ermunterungsraum Emschertal 2020. WiSe 2011/2012, mit Walter Grünzweig, Martina Oldengott, Jan Polivka und Christa Reicher, TU Dortmund.
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Turning Sorrow into Song: Holocaust Fiction of the First and Second Generation. SoSe 2011, mit Walter Grünzweig, TU Dortmund.
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June Jordan’s Poetry: Interpretation through Translation. WiSe 2010/2011, mit Walter Grünzweig, TU Dortmund.
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Intensivseminar Amerikanistik: Kulturelle Bildung. WiSe 2010/2011, mit Walter Grünzweig und Christina Siedlaczek, TU Dortmund.
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The Obama Presidency. WiSe 2009/2010, mit Walter Grünzweig, TU Dortmund.
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Creative Spaces 2010: A Metropolis in the Making? Intensivseminar, WiSe 2009/2010 mit Sina Nitzsche, TU Dortmund.
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The American South in the German Imagination im Rahmen der Summer Academy. SoSe 2009, TU Dortmund.
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“Come Hell or High Water”: After Katrina. WiSe 2008/09, TU Dortmund.
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Female Southern Writers. SoSe 2008, TU Dortmund.
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“In Them Ole Cotton Fields Back Home”: The American South in the German Imagination. WiSe 2007/08, TU Dortmund.
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“Beyond Grits and Gravy”: Literature and Culture of the American South. SoSe 2007, TU Dortmund.
