CV

Prof. Dr. Christof Decker

Since 2008 Professor of American Studies, Department of English and American Studies, University of Munich (LMU)
2002-2008 Associate Professor, University of Munich (LMU)
1998-2000 Postdoctoral scholar, German Research Foundation
1998-1999 Honorary Fellow at the Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1994-1996 Assistant Professor, Free University Berlin and Philipps-University, Marburg
1991-1994 Member of Graduate School, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin
1990-1991 Postgraduate scholar Communication Studies, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
1988-1990 Research assistant Center for North American Studies, University of Frankfurt

2016 Terra Foundation for American Art, Research Fellowship
2016 Workshop »Theories of Culture« (Munich) supported by LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities
2015 Publication Transnational Mediations supported by the German Research Foundation
2013 Conference »American Media – European Cultures«, funded by the German Research Foundation and the Bavarian American Academy
2010 Workshop »Screen as Surface, Screen as Process«, Cooperation University of Alberta, Edmonton-LMU
2010 Conference »Imaging Blackness: Visuality, Liberation, and the Post-Racial in African American Cultural Politics«, LMU Excellence Cooperation UC Berkeley-LMU
2008 Workshop »American Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Teaching«, LMU Excellence Cooperation UC Berkeley-LMU
2005 Travel grant German Research Foundation (London)
2004 Travel grant German Research Foundation (Prague)
1998-2000 Postdoctoral Scholarship German Research Foundation
1995 Ernst-Reuter-Prize for exceptional doctoral dissertations, Free University Berlin
1990-1991 Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, London

Referee/reader for the German Research Foundation, Fulbright Commission, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation
Reader for Amerikastudien/American Studies (academic journal)
Fulbright Liaison Professor, LMU
Representative for International Relations (Graduate School of Language and Literature)
Advisory editor of IASL (online publication of scholarly reviews)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
German Association for American Studies (DGfA)
Bavarian American Academy (BAA)