Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander

is the Head of the Chair of Romance Literary Studies II at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since the summer term 2018.
Miriam Lay Brander
Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander
Head of Chair Romance Literary Studies II
Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-244
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
Consultation hours are by appointment
Please send an email to make an appointment
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Publications

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Academical Career

  • 2017 Venia legendi for General and Comparative Literature and Romance Literatures (University of Konstanz). Habilitation thesis: "Writing in Archipelagos. Aphorism and proverb in (post-)colonial contexts of French, Spanish and Portuguese language".
  • 2010 Doctorate (PhD) in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz; doctoral thesis: "Raum-Zeiten. Narrating and Showing in Seville in the Early Modern Period".
  • 2007 First State examination for the teaching at High schools.
  • 2003-2007 Studies of Romance languages and literature (French and Spanish) in Freiburg, Nice and Konstanz

Research Assignments

  • since 2018 Director of the Central Institute of Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • since 2018 Head of the Chair of Romance Literature II (focus on Spanish Literatures) at the KU
  • 2017 - 2018 Deputy Professor of Romance Literature II, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
  • 2014 - 2017 Post-doctoral researcher in the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz.
  • 2011 - 2017 Research Assistant in the Department of Literary Studies, Romance Literatures (Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Sprenger), University of Konstanz.
  • 2016 - 2017 Junior-Fellowship at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg of the University of Bern.
  • 2014 - 2017 Director of the externally funded project "Genre and Globalization. Hybridization of Genres in (Post-)Colonial Contexts".
  • 2007 - 2011 Academic assistant in the doctoral program "Time Cultures" of the Exc16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration".

Awards and scholarships

  • 2014 - 2017 Scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation's elite programme for postdoctoral students.
  • 2011 - 2014 scholarship holder in the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Programme of the Ministry of Science and Art Baden-Württemberg
  • 2013 Werner Krauss Prize of the German Hispanic Association to award doctoral theses.
  • 2011 Award of the City of Konstanz for the promotion of young scientists for the doctoral thesis "Raum-Zeiten im Umbruch. Erzählen und Zeigen im Sevilla der Frühen Neuzeit".

Membership in scientific associations

Expert activitiy

  • since 2019 Expert Reviewer for the Humboldt Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) (project and individual sponsorship)
  • since 2018 Expert Reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, project and individual funding)
  • 2012 - 2015 Expert Reviewer for selection procedures and follow-up applications of members of the Research Training Group "Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne", University of Konstanz.
  • Since 2010 Expert reviewer for the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Maison Heinrich Heine and the Pädagogischen Austauschdienst (expert opinions for scholarships and stays abroad).

Series Editorial Board

Secretary

Heike Wübben
Secretary
Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-243
Postal Address
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
Monday to Thursday 08.00 - 13.00
and by appointment