Astrid Erll - Biography#
ACADEMIC CAREER
- 2010 Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
- 2009 - 2010 Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
- 2007 - 2010 Professor of English (Literary and Cultural Studies) at Wuppertal University
- 2006 Visiting Professor at the English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 2006 Habilitation (with a thesis on representations of the 'Indian Mutiny' in imperial and postcolonial media cultures, 1857 to the present), JLU Gießen
- 2004 Research Fellow at the Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
- 2003, 2004, 2006 Research stays in the British Library, London
- 2003 – 2007 Researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre "Memory Cultures" (Sonderforschungsbereich Erinnerungskulturen), JLU Gießen
- 2002 Doctorate (Dr. phil., with a thesis on English and German First World War fiction as 'memory making novels'), JLU Gießen
- 1998 Graduation (State Exam, majors: English, German; minor: Psychology), JLU Gießen
PROJECTS:
- The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform: https://www.memorystudies-frankfurt.com
- Transformations of Political Violence: https://www.trace-center.de
- AFRASO – The Indian Ocean as Memory Space
- Memory and Migration: Literature, Film, and Plurimedia Constellations
- Photography and Memory
- Transcultural Memory Narratives in Europe (COST/NITMES)
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:
- General editor of the book series "Studies in Collective Memory" (Oxford University Press, with J. Olick)
- General editor of the book series Media and Cultural Memory (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter) (with A. Nünning)
- Member of the advisory board of the book series Memory Studies (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Member of the advisory boards of the journals Memory Studies (SAGE), Memory, Mind & Media (MMM, Cambridge UP), The Memory Studies Review (Brill)