Education:
University of Vienna, Austria:
2001: Mag. phil.: English and American Language and Literature and Geography
(incl. Teaching Diploma for teaching ESL and Geography at Austrian secondary schools)
Master's thesis: “‘These two lanes will take us anywhere': Bruce Springsteen Meets America on the Road”
Bradley University, Peoria (IL), U.S.A.:
English Graduate Program (2001-2002, two semesters)
University of Ghent, Belgium:
ERASMUS student in the English Department (1995, one semester)
Doctoral thesis in progress:
Working title:
“Straight white masculinity and the politics of American popular culture at the turn of the 21st century”
Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Recent work experience:
Since 2002: Lecturer in Cultural Studies classes, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Since 2004: Lecturer in Language Competence Classes, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Since 2003: Free-lance lecturer in cultural and media studies in teacher training (Pädagogisches Institut der Stadt Wien)
2002-2003: "Unterrichtspraktikum" at an Austrian high school (Gymnasium GRG 21 "Bertha von Suttner," Wien)
2001-2002: Graduate Assistant, International Program, Bradley University, Peoria (IL), U.S.A.
Grants and scholarships:
Grant to the Spring Academy of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (2006)
Research grant of the Austrian Ministry of Education for doctoral thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2004)
Grant to the Salzburg Seminar, American Studies Center Session 30: The Politics of American Popular Culture: Here, There and Everywhere (2002)
Research grant of the Austrian Ministry of Education for Master's thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara (1997)
ERASMUS grant to the University of Ghent, Belgium (1995)
