Curriculum Vitae: Professor Karsten Fitz
Year | Description |
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2020-2023 | Chairman of the Senate of the University of Passau |
2017-2020 | Vice-President of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) |
2017-2019 | Dean of the School for the Arts and Humanities |
since Oct. 2007 | Professor of American Studies/Culture and Media Studies at the University of Passau |
Summer term 2007 | Interim professor and chair (Lehrstuhlvertretung) of American Studies/Intercultural Anglophone Studies at the University of Bayreuth |
Dec. 2006 | Habilitation at the University of Regensburg; venia legendi: American Studies |
2000 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg |
2002/2003 | Fulbright American Studies Fellowship of the German-American Fulbright Commission; research stay at Harvard University and at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA |
Feb. 2000 | Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies, University of Hanover |
1998 - 2000 | Instructor at the University of Regensburg, American Studies |
1996 - 1998 | Doctoral Fellowship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst |
June - Aug. 1997 | Travel grant by the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst: 3-months research stay at the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles |
June - Sept. 1995 | Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): 3-month research stay at the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley; internship (three weeks) on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana |
Winter term 1994/95 | Instructor at the University of Hanover, English Department |
1990/91 | Student at the University of Washington, Seattle: English and Political Sciences (Honors Program in English) |
1991 - 97 | Free lance language trainer for English and German at the Continental Reifen AG Hanover; instructor of English at the Volkshochschule Langenhagen |
1987 - 94 | University of Hanover; M.A. in English/American Studies and Political Sciences |