Jennifer Howard

Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Department of North American Studies | Lemke

howardjenniferm@outlook.com
R 4049 | KG IV

TEACHING

Literary Studies Seminar “Made in America – Literary Expressions of Collective Identity(s)” WS 22/23
Cultural Studies Seminar “Power Matters: Class, Alienation and Anger” (Co-teaching with Kristina Seefeldt) WS 22/23
Cultural Studies Seminar "The Intellectual History of American Identity – Its Symbols, Rhetoric and Rituals" SS 22
Cultural Studies Seminar "Understanding the American Dream – Its Origins, Adaptations, and Impact" WS 21/22
Tutorial, "Introduction to Literary Studies"
Tutorial, "Introduction to Cultural Studies"

ACADEMIC CAREER

10.2021 – Present	Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate, Prof. Sieglinde Lemke University of Freiburg Working dissertation title: "Higher ground in a divided nation: Civil Religion in America"
10.2020 – 10.2021	Research Assistant, Prof. Sieglinde Lemke University of Freiburg
04.2020 – 08.2020, 11.2020 – 03.2021, 04.2021 – 08.2021	Teaching Assistant for Prof. Sieglinde Lemke University of Freiburg
10.2019 – 03.2020	Teaching Assistant for Prof. Wolfgang Hochbruck University of Freiburg
04.2019 – 08.2019	Teaching Assistant for Prof. Stefanie Lethbridge University of Freiburg
07.2008 – 08.2008	Teacher, English as a Second Language (ESL) Berlitz, Cochem, Germany

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

11.2012 – 07.2018	Corporate Trainer/Talent Development Specialist SELCO Community Credit Union, Eugene, OR, USA
05.2011 – 11.2012	Member Service Representative SELCO Community Credit Union, Eugene, OR, USA
02.2010 – 05.2011	Member Service Representative Pentagon Federal Credit Union, Eugene, OR, USA

EDUCATION

2018 – 2021

M.A., British and North American Cultural Studies

University of Freiburg

Thesis: "Dismantling the American Dream: Optimistic ideas for American problems and their flaws"

2004 – 2009

B.A., Liberal Arts (awarded 2011)
Gutenberg College, Eugene, OR, USA

LANGUAGES

English	Native speaker
German	Conversational and learning at B2 level

CONFERENCES

April 2022

EUCOR English Conference

Presented early PHD Research: “Higher Ground in a divided nation: Civil Religion in America”

April 2021

EUCOR English Conference
Presented original MA Thesis research: "Killing the Joy of the American Dream:
Uncovering the hidden unhappiness of James Truslow Adams' Epic American Dream"