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Title	Lecturer
Address	German University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-3000
Fax:	+353 21 490 2283
Email:	ei.ccu@nnamfoH.G
Homepage:	Web Page
Title	Lecturer
Address	German Orb 1.40 Department of German University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353 21 490 2283
Email:	ei.ccu@nnamfoH.G
Homepage:	Web Page

Biography:

1979-1986 studies in German and comparative literature, philosophy, pedagogy, social sciences and art history in Würzburg, Vienna and Münster/Westfalen.

1984-1986 research assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Eckhard Heftrich, Germanistisches Institut, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Collaborating in projects on Robert Musil, the Shakespeare reception in German literature and philosophy, Nietzsche.

1986 Universität Münster: graduation (State Exam).

1986-1991 research assistant and part time lecturer at the Institut für deutsche Philologie (Ältere Abteilung), Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: German literary mysticism of the Middle Ages (Prof. Dr. Horst Brunner). Doctoral studies and research: (anti-)classicism (Goethezeit), (post-)modernism, critical theory; phenomenology of art, ekphrasis; Hölderlin (Prof. Dr. Helmut Pfotenhauer).

1991-1994 Visiting Lecturer, 1994-1995 Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea (supported by the DAAD). Research on (anti-)classicism, idealism, inter-cultural and aesthetic communication. Teaching German language; history of German literature from the 18th to the 20th century: poetry, short prose; methodology of teaching foreign languages; German culture. Further activities: Ständiger Ausschuß Deutsch als Fremdsprache (German Embassy); permanent member of the selection committee for DAAD doctoral scholarships (German Embassy); Koreanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik: Advisory Board for the annual international "Sorak Symposium." Examiner at national and regional foreign language competitions for High School and University students organised by the Korean Higher Education Authority; external examiner at regular career assessment exams (German) of the Korean Intelligence Services. Co-presenter in foreign language programmes of the Korean Education Channel (EBS, radio and television).

1995 PhD-graduation (Universität Würzburg).

1995-1999 Hochschulassistent (Assistant Professor) at the Seminar für deutsche Literatur und Sprache, Universität Hannover. Research and teaching: anthropology and aesthetics of the tragic, performance theory, Goethezeit, Lessing. Academic managment: Executive Board of the Faculty of Linguistic and Literary Studies; Advisory Board for the bi-annual theatre festival and symposium SCENA (Media Centre of the Protestant Church of Lower Saxonia).

Since 1999 Lectureship in German at UCC. Member of the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Law; Board of DTS; Board of Film Studies; CACSSS Executive Committee etc.; co-ordinator of the MA in CompLit. 2011 Acting Head of Department. Teaching: German and comparative literature, political culture of Germany, critical theory and aesthetics. Research: literary anthropology, literary theory, media and art, Holocaust representations.

2010 Habilitation (Universität Rostock). Member of the Philosophische Fakultät, University of Rostock; venia legendi in Modern German Literature.

2010-2011 Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and University of Washington (UW), Visiting Professor at Rostock University.