International Experience

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Herman Melville

Senior Researcher for Poetry off the Page (ERC/FWF) 2021-2024 with short research periods in the UK. Archival Work at Apples&Snakes Spoken Word Archive and the British Library in London as well as conducting interviews in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Visiting Researcher: Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. and at the Melville Society Archive, New Bedford, USA. Archival Work for Ahab in Love. The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture. March 2012.

Visiting Professor: Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, September 2008-January 2009.

Visiting Professor and Visiting Researcher: Oglethorpe University, Emory University, and Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. Research for Poetry Goes Intermedia. US-Amerikanische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. August 2005-May 2006.

Visiting Researcher: SUNY New Paltz and Woodstock, NY, USA. Research for Sounds of Poetry. Contemporary American Performance Poetry. Summer of 2000.

Erasmus Semester: Roehampton University, London, GB, September 1999 – January 2000.

Summer School: Texas A&M University, USA, July 1997.

Summer School: Oxford Brookes University, GB, July 1996.

Cambridge Proficiency Exam: Bromeley of Further and Higher Education, College, London, GB, September 1994 – June 1995.