Miriam Lay Brander

Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander

Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander

Head of Chair Romance Literary Studies II

Phone +49 8421 93-23132
E-mail miriam.lay-brander@ku.de

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

Research

Publications

Here you find the complete list of publications of Prof. Dr. Lay Brander

Lectures and Conferences

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

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".

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".

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).

Editor of the series Americana Eystettensia (AE), Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert (with Thomas Fischer).
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Heike Wübben

Secretary

Phone +49 8421 93-23134
E-mail heike.wuebben@ku.de

Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-243

Postal Address
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt

Office hours
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornigs
Tuesday afternoons
and by appointment