Curriculum Vitae Yasmin Afshar, M.A.

Curriculum Vitae
Yasmin Afshar, M.A.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien,
Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main
[email protected]
Employment
10/2014-
Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institute
for English and American Studies (IEAS), Goethe-University Frankfurt
Education and Academic Training
10/2014-
Doctoral candidate at the IEAS
Dissertation-project: Liquid Film-Philosophies – Thinking the Mate-
riality of Time and Ruination with contemporary American Experimental Cinema (working title); Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzogenrath
10/2008-07/2014
Magistra Artium in American Studies and German Studies (Literature and Culture) at Goethe University Frankfurt and University of
Salamanca, Spain
M.A. title: body│ruin│text – A Deleuzian Reading of Spatial Semio-
tizations in Paul Auster’s Moon Palace and Teju Cole’s Open City
Conference Presentations
07/2014
site|specific – hans poelzig: film|architektur (conference on the occasion of the centennial of Goethe University): „Architeχturen“ der
Erinnerung. Zur Raumkonzeption der Filmbauten Hans Poelzigs in
Paul Wegeners Lebende Buddhas (1923-1925)“
03/2014
Annual American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) at
New York University (New York City): “‘The date petrified into broken stones’ – body|ruin|text: Spatial Semiotizations of Trauma & Crisis in Teju Cole’s Open City”
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05/2011
Student Symposium of the IEAS at Goethe University Frankfurt:
“Dances with Wolves, an American Adam? – Deconstructing the
Myth”
Grants
03/2014
Travel Grant: Association of Friends and Supporters of the Goethe
University Frankfurt
Teaching
WS 2014/15
“Reading the City – Visions of Urban Space in American Literature”
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
WS 2013/14
Autonomous creative writing workshop for students of the IEAS at
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work Experience (selection)
12/2008-07/2012
English Instructor (Volkshochschule Offenbach/Main, Lehrerkooperative e.V. Frankfurt/Main, Abendakademie Mannheim)
10/2011-07/2012
Student Assistant at the IEAS, Goethe University Frankfurt
05/2011-02/2012
Intern and volunteer teacher at the German American Institute
(DAI), Heidelberg
Languages
English, German, Persian (Farsi), Spanish
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