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Sylvia Mayer

Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Since 2008: Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Bayreuth
2007/2008: Professor of American Literature, University of Bamberg
2002-2007: Associate Professor, University of Muenster
1995-2002: Assistant Professor, University of Muenster
1994/1995: Lecturer, English Department, University of Heidelberg
1991/1992: Lecturer, English Department, University of Heidelberg

Studies at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Stuttgart, and at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

since 2020: Advisory Board, EASLCE
since 2020: Reader, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
2016 - 2020: Dean, Faculty of Languages and Literatures
since 2011: Director, Bayreuth Institute for American Studies (BIFAS)
since 2010: Associate, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich
since 2010: Reader, Ecozon@ European Journal of Literature,Culture and Environment
since 2010: Reader, Green Letters
2009-2016: Advisory Board, German Association for American Studies (GAAS)
2009-2016: Reader, American Studies/ Amerikastudien
2008-2012: Advisory Board, EASLCE
2006-2008: President, European Association for the Study of Literature Culture and Environment (EASLCE)

DFG-Project "Contemporary American Risk Fiction,” 2014-2019
Fulbright American Studies Fellowship, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1999/2000
Doctoral Fellow, Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg (GRAFÖG BW), 1992-94

Sylvia Mayer
Chair

Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
Building: GW I Raum: 1.15
95447 Bayreuth

Office hours during the lecture period:
Tuesdays: 13:00-14:00 p.m.

(Please sign up on the list next to the office door)

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-3562
E-mail: sylvia.mayer@uni-bayreuth.de