Short CV
Born in 1978 in Bochum (Germany), schooling and university entrance-diploma in Celle (Germany). From 1997 to 2003 studies in Communications, Dramatics and Comparative Literature at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3. After reaching a master’s degree, Kathrin Müller did a PhD at at the Department of Communications and Media Culture, Leuphana University Lüneburg, which she passed with distinction in 2009. Her doctoral thesis discusses the appropriation and usage of Brigitte, a German women’s magazine. In brief, it examines how the reception of Brigitte is linked to biography, everyday life and doing gender.
Before starting to work at the University, Kathrin Müller worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University from 2010 until 2012. In advance, she was employed as a research assistant for the joint research project Spitzenfrauen im Fokus der Medien. Die mediale Repräsentation von weiblichen und männlichen Führungskräften in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft (Head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Röser). During 2005 until 2008, she was a lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Additionally, she taught two semesters at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2005.