!!Alfred Hornung - Curriculum Vitae \\ *1999- Board Member, International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) \\ *2000–2004 President, MESEA (The Society for the Study of Multi‐Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas)\\ *2000–2005 Director, Center for Intercultural Studies (Humanities and Social Sciences) \\ *2002–2005 President, German Association for American Studies\\ *2003– Member at large, Executive Committee, International American Studies Association (IASA)\\ *2004–2008 Member, International Committee, American Studies Association (ASA) \\ *2008– Elected Member of the Review Board of the German Research Foundation for European and North American Literatures\\ *2009– Founding Member and Vice President, World Ecological Organization (WEO)\\ *2009– Chair, National Review Board of the German Council of Science and Humanities for the Evaluation of English and American Studies at German Universities\\ *2012– Scientific Advisory Board, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna\\ *2014- Member of Research Training Group on "Life Sciences and Life Writing", funded by German Research Foundation\\ *1977–1984 Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, University of Würzburg\\ *1978–1979 Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American literature, University of Texas at Austin\\ *Spring 1983 Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American literature, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque\\ *1985–1986 Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Würzburg\\ *Spring 1986 Visiting Associate Professor of English and American literature, State University of New York at Albany\\ *Summer 1986 Visiting Professor of American literature, University of Erlangen‐Nürnberg \\ *1986–1987 Visiting Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in New York City\\ *1987–1988 Visiting Professor of American literature, University of Bamberg \\ *1988– Chair and Professor of English and American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Univ. of Mainz \\ *Aug.–Sep. 1995 Summer Academy, German Studienstiftung in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia \\ *1992–2003 Short‐term Erasmus Guest Professorships at Ghent (Belgium), Dijon (France), Bergen (Norway), Trieste (Italy), Vienna (Austria), Odense (Denmark), Warsaw (Poland)\\ *Summer 2003 Guest Professor, York University, Toronto\\ *Jan.–Jun. 2006 Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS\\ *Summer 2007 Guest Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver\\ *Feb.–July 2009 Guest Professor, Peking University and University of International Business and Economics, Beijing\\ *July 2009-11 Joint Summer School with Georgia State Univ., Peking University in Mainz, Atlanta, Beijing\\ *July 2012-13 Summer School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing