Gerd Bayer#
| Membership Number: | 4518 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.anglistik.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/lit/staff/gerd-bayer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Academic Director, FAU Erlangen
- 2013 - 2016 Akademischer Oberrat, FAU Erlangen
- 2005 - 2013 Akademischer Rat, FAU Erlangen
- 2004 - 2005 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA
- 1999 - 2004 Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- 1998 - 1999 Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada
Fields of Scholarship
- Early modern narrative prose fiction
- Postmodern and contemporary British novel
- Holocaust studies
- Postcolonial studies
- Popular culture, in particular popular music
- Mockumentary film
Honours and Awards
- 2013 (March) Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U Texas-Austin
- 2009 - 2012 DFG, personal grant; five semester research leave
- 2011 European Science Foundation, participant, early career researchers forum
- 2008 Ray and Pat Browne Award, Popular Culture Association, USA
- 2006 (March) Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U Texas-Austin
