We are delighted to announce that, as of June 1, 2025, PD Dr. habil. Heike Hartung (University of Potsdam, Germany) has accepted the appointment as CIRAC Fellow.
Heike Hartung is a distinguished scholar in English studies, literature, and cultural studies, whose work has made significant contributions to the interdisciplinary dialogue between the humanities and the social sciences. She earned her doctorate from the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin and completed her habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. Over the course of her career, she has held research and teaching positions at Freie Universität Berlin, the universities of Potsdam, Greifswald, and Rostock, as well as at the University of Graz.
Since 2013, Dr. Hartung has served as a Privatdozentin at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam, holding a venia docendi in English philology. She is an affiliated researcher at both the Center for Inter-American Studies and CIRAC (the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care) at the University of Graz. As a founding member of ENAS – the European Network in Aging Studies, she has helped shape the field of cultural aging studies in Europe and beyond.
Her research, which spans cultural aging studies, disability and gender studies, narratology, and the history of the novel, is widely recognized for its depth, originality, and interdisciplinary reach. We are especially pleased to welcome her involvement in CIRAC’s new curriculum in the field of Health Humanities and look forward to an inspiring and fruitful collaboration.