Team > Ellen Borchardt


Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Academic Career
2025 | Research stay at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA |
Post-Graduate Research Fellowship funded by the Bavarian American Academy and Harvard Club of Munich e.V. | |
since 2024 | Lecturer and PhD candidate at the chair for American Studies / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Bayreuth |
2020 - 2024 | Research assistant and tutor at the chair for American Studies / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Bayreuth |
2021 - 2023 | MA Intercultural Anglophone Studies, University of Bayreuth |
Supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation | |
2018 | Study abroad at Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia Canada |
Funded by a grant from the German Academic Exchange Sevice | |
2017 - 2020 | BA English and American Studies, German Studies, University of Bayreuth |

Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Cognitive literary studies (particularly distributed and 4e cognition)
Ecocriticism and environmental humanities
Posthumanism
The contemporary American novel
American and transatlantic modernism

Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Ellen Borchardt
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Building: GW I Room: 1.27
Office hours: Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m.
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3577