Dr. Mareike Spychala

Academic Service and Professional Affiliations

Academic Service at the University of Bamberg

• Since 2021: Member of the Steering Committee of the Forschungsnetzwerk : Research Network of the Working Group Research Support ("AK Forschung") of the Non-professorial Academic Staff Council
• Since 2019: Deputy Women's Representative of the faculty of Humanities (Stellvertretende Frauenbeauftragte der Fakul?t GuK)

Past Academic Service in Professional Organizations

• 2018 - 2020: Representative of the Graduate Students in the Bamberg Graduate School for Literautre, Culture, and Media (BaGraLCM)
• 2015/05 - 2016/11: Member of the Organizing Team of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)

Professional Affiliations

• Bavarian America Academy (since 2023)
• Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, e.V. [Association for Research in the Fantastic] (since 2020)
• Popualr Culture/American Culture Association (since 2018)
• German Popular Culture Studies Association (since 2018; founding and board member)
• Universit?tsbund, e.V. (since 2018)
• German Association of American Studies (since 2015)