Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke

10/2021-1/2022, Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg | Hanse Institute for Advanced Study

since 11/2013, Associate, DFG graduate school "Life Sciences, Life Writing: Boundary Experiences of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation and Lived Experience," University of Mainz

since 1/2011, Professor (Chair, W 3), American Literature and Culture and Director, North American Studies Program & German-Canadian Centre, Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn

2005-9/2013, Board Member, 10/2013-3/2018, Spokesperson, Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaft/Cultural Studies, University of Bonn

3-4/2019, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Brisbane

8-10/2016, DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus, New York University

2005-2016, Associate member of the DFG research group "Popular Seriality – Aesthetics and Practice" (FU Berlin|University of Göttingen)

6/2009-5/2015, member of the Advisory Board, Center for Modernist Studies (CMS), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

6/2010-6/2013, Associate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University

7/2008-6/2013, Associate, FWF research project "Framing Media: The Periphery of Fiction and Film," University of Innsbruck

2008-2012, Deputy Spokesperson, Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaft/Cultural Studies, University of Bonn

2004-2012, Director, Forum Women and Gender Studies, University of Bonn

winter term 2010-2011, sabbatical, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG), for work on the book project "Memory, Mediation, Seriality"

9/2001-12/2010, Professor (Chair, W 3), American Literature and Culture and Director, North American Studies Program & German-Canadian Centre, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn

January 2010, Offer (Ruf) of the Chair for American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
2005–4/2009 Non-Resident Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University

summer term 2001, Professor (C 3), Englisches Seminar, University of Freiburg

9/1999–9/2001, Associate Professor, Seminar für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin

2–8/1999, Senior Lecturer, American Institute, University of Lódz, Poland

10/1997–3/1998, Associate, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

10–12/1998 and 10/1996–3/1998, Habilitandenstipendium, German Research Foundation (DFG)

1992–1998, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

winter term 1995-1996, Visiting Professor (C 2), Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, University of Hamburg

1994–1995, Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University

1987–1988 Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Brandeis University, post-graduate studies and dissertation research

1986–1987, Lecturer, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

1982–2002, Editing and Technical Assistant, Sender Freies Berlin

1982–1992, Employee, International Office, Freie Universität Berlin

1999, Habilitation (postdoctoral degree), Freie Universität Berlin, Venia legendi "Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft"

1992, Dr. phil., American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

1985, Erstes Staatsexamen in English and Biology

1978-1985, Studies of English and Biology, Freie Universität Berlin and Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)

Mentor, Foundation of German Business|Vertrauensdozentin, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (SDW): "Regionalgruppe Bonn-Koblenz"

Referee for German Research Foundation (DFG), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Schweizer Nationalfond, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Erwin Schrödinger Stiftung, and other institutions

since 8/2004 Series Editor "Transcription: Cultures – Concepts – Controversies" (Frankfurt: Lang)

since 1/2003 Member of the Editorial Board of Amerikastudien/American Studies

"Memory, Mediation, Seriality: Re-cognizing Literary and Cultural Studies, Re-membering the Subject"

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"Nostalgie: Zeit-Räume, Affekte, Warenkultur"
"Knowledge Ecologies: Changing Patterns in a Global Dynamic"
"Mimicry as Communication"

Associate member of the DFG graduate school "Life Sciences, Life Writing" (University of Mainz)