Andree Michaelis: Curriculum Vitae
Current academic position:
| Since May 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow at Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg; head of research group „Literary Practices of Entanglement: Jewish Writing in the European Diaspora (19th and 20th Century)“ |
| Since May 2012 | Assistant professor at the Axel Springer Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Exile and Migration, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) |
Stipends and Awards:
| 2016 | Brandenburg PostDoc Prize (20.000€) |
| 2012 | Stipend of the Thyssen Foundation for a project on The Politics of Friendship in Lessing’s Works |
| 2008-2011 | Dissertation stipend of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, as well as of the Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) |
| 2010 | Research stays at Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yale University, New Haven |
| 2009 | Fellow of the Konstanzer Meisterklasse; topic: „Trauma and Narration“ (with Hayden White, Geoffrey Hartman, Dominick LaCapra) |
| 2008 | Research stay at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Los Angeles (Corrie ten Boom Research Award) |
PhD thesis:
| Nov. 2011 | PhD at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin; published as: "Erzählräume nach Auschwitz. Literarische und videographierte Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der Shoah" (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013) |
Education:
| May 2007 | Magister of Arts, Freie Universität Berlin; thesis title: „Die Bedeutung des ‚Jüdischen’ bei Wolfgang Hildesheimer und Alfred Andersch" |
| 2001-2007 | Studies of Modern German Literature, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and at Reed College, Portland/OR |