Graduate Student, Department of English Literature
Universität Leipzig, Institut für Anglistik
Institut für Anglistik
Thesis Title: Victorian Wonderland through the Magnifying-Glass: Science and Religion in the Short Stories of H.G.Wells (dissertation)
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Prof. Elmar Schenkel
Prof. Stefan Welz |
About
I am currently a postgraduate student of Nineteenth Century Studies at the University of Sheffield. I have previously studied at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff and the University of Leipzig, where I graduated with a first class degree in British Studies and Communications and Media Science in 2011.
My academic work focuses on the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom and Europe, its literature and history and the impact of scientific progress. I have a strong interest in the correspondence of Science and Literature and my study focus is on the work of H.G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, E.T.A. Hoffmann and George MacDonald. I am also a member of the Lewis Carroll Society and the British Society for Literature and Science I have presented my work on various conferences. I am currently working on artlicles for the Lewis Carroll Review and an essay collection on postmodern representation of Alice in Wonderland.
I have worked as a tutor for German as a foreign language at the Technical University of Dresden, where I planned and delivered workshops and seminars in German Literature and Culture. I currently work as a German teacher at Berdale Centres, Sheffield and I am a freelance Journalist for Liaisons Magazine.
Further I have worked in student representation in Britain and Germany from 2008 until today. I also provided student advisory service, especially for those students planning on studying abroad and I am active in the Erasmus student network society. I have in the past also participated in a number of University related projects such as "Hochschulinitiative Neue Länder", a campaign by Schulz and Friends ("Du bist Deutschland", "Walk of Ideas") and the government of the Federal Republic of Germany from April 2009 until April 2010 and "Europa macht Schule", an initiative by the German Academic exchange service (DAAD).
