Astrid Erll - Biography#

• 2010 Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
• 2009 - 2010 Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
• 2007 - 2010 Professor of English (Literary and Cultural Studies) at Wuppertal University
• 2006 Visiting Professor at the English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• 2006 Habilitation (with a thesis on representations of the 'Indian Mutiny' in imperial and postcolonial media cultures, 1857 to the present), JLU Gießen
• 2004 Research Fellow at the Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
• 2003, 2004, 2006 Research stays in the British Library, London
• 2003 – 2007 Researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre "Memory Cultures" (Sonderforschungsbereich Erinnerungskulturen), JLU Gießen
• 2002 Doctorate (Dr. phil., with a thesis on English and German First World War fiction as 'memory making novels'), JLU Gießen
• 1998 Graduation (State Exam, majors: English, German; minor: Psychology), JLU Gießen

• The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform: https://www.memorystudies-frankfurt.com
• Transformations of Political Violence: https://www.trace-center.de
• AFRASO – The Indian Ocean as Memory Space
• Memory and Migration: Literature, Film, and Plurimedia Constellations
• Photography and Memory
• Transcultural Memory Narratives in Europe (COST/NITMES)

• General editor of the book series "Studies in Collective Memory" (Oxford University Press, with J. Olick)
• General editor of the book series Media and Cultural Memory (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter) (with A. Nünning)
• Member of the advisory board of the book series Memory Studies (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Member of the advisory boards of the journals Memory Studies (SAGE), Memory, Mind & Media (MMM, Cambridge UP), The Memory Studies Review (Brill)