Staff
Without an outstanding staff, no program can produce excellence. The Institute for American Studies in Leipzig is no exception. Thanks to the energy and enthusiasm of our Staff members, American Studies Leipzig is able to create a teaching and research community of international caliber. That is why we see Staff as an essential element of the Scholarly Team. Staff members currently are:
Isabel Holzke. Institute Secretariat.
Room 3506 | Phone: + 49 341 973 7330
usual office hours:
Monday: 10 am - 1 pm
Tuesday - Thursday: 10 am - 3 pm
and by appointment
e-mail to:isabel.holzke@uni-leipzig.de or to:americanstudies@uni-leipzig.de
Dr. Sophia Manns-Süßbrich. Lead Librarian, Frank Freidel Memorial Library.
manns@ub.uni-leipzig.de
Dr. Sophia Manns-Süßbrich is Lead Librarian for the overall American Studies collections at the University of Leipzig and specifically for the American Studies Frank Freidel Memorial Library. Sophia earned her doctorate at the University of Marburg in Slavic Studies. Sophia's intellectual interests include reading Victorian crime novels. She has lived and visited the USA, Great Britain and the Ukraine. Sophia has been part of the American Studies team since 2001.
Franziska Wenk - Coordinator, Institute Communications.
Franziska is responsible for web-based communications for the Institute, the Institute newsletter Connections, e-announcements, and the American Studies Gateway. She finished her BA in the Summer of 2009 and wrote her BA thesis about the "The Good Vampire: Transformation of the Vampire Figure from Bram Stoker's Count Dracula to Ann Rice's Louis to Angel and Spike." Currently, she is enrolled in the MA program at American Studies Leipzig.
Julia Wöhrle - Coordinator, Institute Communications.
Julia's main tasks at ASL are the Institute newsletter Connections, the publication of news items on the website as well as social media and press relations. She did a "Kurzvolontariat" at the public broadcasting station WOUB in Athens, OH, in 2009, finished her exams in American Studies in spring 2010 and is currently writing her "Diplomarbeit" in Journalism about recent changes in the media landscape in Spain.