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Dr. Lilean Buhl
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Contact Image Contact Image © Lilean Buhl
Dr. Lilean Buhl
Research Associate
E-Mail
lilean.buhlengsem.uni-hannover.de
Building
1502
Room
638

Focus Points in Research and Teaching

Dr. Lilean Buhl is a post-doc research associate in the American Studies department at Leibniz University.  

His dissertation (completed in 2024) is concerned with the distribution and manifestation of moderntist forms of expression through "little magazines" in North America and Europe. The book is planned to be published in 2026.

At the moment, Lilean Buhl is preparing his second book (habilitation).

His teaching comprises transatlantic modernism and in its diverse locales and various forms of media. In the winter semester 2025/26, he is teaching on the short story in North America and beyond  as well as on a cultural and critical history of the everyday and the banal.

Resume

  • Professional Career

    Since October 2025 
    Research Associate in the American Studies department, Leibniz University Hannover.

    August 2024-April 2025
    Communications Referent, Ärzteversorgung Niedersachsen, Hannover

    June 2020-September 2023 
    Research Assistant and PhD Candidate in American Studies, Leibniz University Hannover, as part of the project "Multiplication: Modernity, Mass Culture, Gender in the United States, 1910-1933" (funded by the German Research Foundation)

    since November 2014
    Free journalist, Neue Presse Hannover, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Junge Bühne, and others 

    January-March 2018:  
    Translator, Project Coordinator and German Language Expert at DefinedCrowd in Seattle, WA, USA. 

  • Education

    2020-2024
    PhD-student in American Studies, Leibniz University Hannover.
    Dissertation: "Little Magazine Dialogism. Constellations, Circulations, and Submersions of Modernism, 1900-1940."

    2016-2020 
    MA-Program: Advanced Anglophone Studies
    MA-Thesis: "Modernist Body Mechanisms: Physicality in Transatlantic Avantgardes, Cultural Critique, and Mass Entertainment."

    2017-2018
    Visiting Graduate Student in English Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington Graduate School, Seattle, WA, USA

    2013-2016
    BA-Program: English and Philosophy 
    BA-Thesis: "Objectivity and Autobiography - Joe Sacco's Comic Journalism." 

  • Conference Organisation

    Symposium Refractions of Mass Culture. Modernist Print Media and the Logic of Multiplication. International Symposium with seven presenters. Leibniz University Hannover, September 29-30, 2022.

    Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS), Modernities and Modernization in North America, Leibniz University Hannover. Keynotes: Ulla Haselstein, Laura Horak, Michael North, Anita Patterson, Andreas Reckwitz. June 2017. 

  • Scholarships and Awards

    2018/19
    Niedersachsenstipendium (scholarship from the state of Lower Saxony)

    2017
    Presidential Award of the Leibniz University Hannover for exceptional achievements in the bachelor's thesis and overall performance 

    2017/18
    Fulbright Scholarship 

    Juli-August 2015
    Fulbright American Studies Summer Session at Humboldt University Berlin 

    2013-2014
    Deutschlandstipendium (German Scholarship)

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