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Humanities Faculty

Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. English and American Studies
  6. American Studies
  7. Team
  8. Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt
  9. Academic Career

Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

Academic Career

  • 08/2017: Offer, W3 / Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg (declined)
  • since 10/2010: Full Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Bamberg
  • 10/2008 – 09/2010: Director, German-American Institute /Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg i. Breisgau, Germany
  • 04/2008 – 09/2008: Professor of North American Literature and Culture (W2), English Department, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
  • 2008: Habilitation (postdoctoral degree), Cultural Studies Department, Technical University of Dortmund, venia legendi "Amerikanistik" (American Studies)
  • 2000: Ph.D. American Literature and Culture (summa cum laude), Dissertation: "Rituale des Scheiterns: Die Reconstruction-Periode im US-amerikanischen Roman" ("Rituals of Failure: The Reconstruction Era in American Literature"), Dortmund University
  • 1998: M.A. English Language and Literature, Ohio University, USA
  • 1994 – 2008: Lecturer / Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Angestellte), English Department, University of Dortmund, Germany
  • 1993 – 1994: Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Assistant, English Department, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
  • 1993: 1. Staatsexamen Lehramt Deutsch/Englisch (Degree in German, English, and American Language and Literature / Education), Humboldt University Berlin

Awards, Honors, Scholarships

  • 01/2016: 2015 CHOICE Award - Outstanding Academic Title for A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World
  • 08/2015 – 12/2015: Harris Distinguished Professorship, Dartmouth College, USA
  • 04/2005 – 03/2008: Fellow, Research Network of the German Research Foundation (DFG) "The Future(s) of (European) American Studies"
  • 10/2004 – 04/2006: Lise-Meitner Research Scholarship (Full Scholarship), Ministry for Science and Research, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2002 – 2003: Visiting Scholar, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • 02/2002: Dissertation Prize 2001, University of Dortmund
  • 03/1998: Fellow, Salzburg Seminar for American Studies, Session 354: "The Contemporary Novel," Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg
  • 07/1995 – 08/1995: Fellow, Fulbright American Studies Summer Institute, New York University, USA
  • 02/1994 – 03/1994: Fellow, USIA Multi-Regional American Studies Project, Universities of Chicago, Mississippi, San Diego, and Colorado State University, USA