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Mehar Bahl

Since October 2026, PhD Studies, English Studies, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster
2025–2026, Assistant Editor, Harper Collins India
2024–2026, Bachelor of Education, MDU, India
2024–2025, Editorial Apprentice, Harper Collins India
2022–2024, Master of Arts, English Literature, University of Delhi
2019–2022, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi

Since 10/2025: Research Associate [Third Party Funding with DFG], Institute for German Literature, HU Berlin
Since 10/2024 [currently on leave until 10/2027]: Research Associate, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld
Summer Term 2024: Lecturer, Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, FU Berlin
Summer Term 2024: Interim Junior Professor, Neuere Deutsche Literatur mit Schwerpunkt in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
01/2024 – 02/2024: Visiting Scholar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
06/2023 – 03/2024 : Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, FU Berlin
01/2020 – 04/2023: PhD in German Studies (summa cum laude)
03/2022 – 06/2022: Visiting Scholar at King’s College London
01/2020 – 05/2023 : Research Assistant at the CRC 1385 Law and Literature, University of Muenster
2016 – 2020: Master of Arts in German Studies; Master of Arts in Philosophy, University of Kassel
2013 – 2016: Bachelor of Arts in German Studies, Philosophy and English/American Studies, University of Kassel

Since 10/2025: PhD Candidate in German Studies, Graduate School Practices of Literature, Universität Münster
10/2022 – 08/2024: Master Studies in Book and Media Studies, LMU München
10/2019 – 09/2022: Bachelor Studies in Book Studies and German Studies, JGU Mainz
08/2016 – 01/2019: Training as a Bookseller, Münster

Since 10/2025: PhD Candidate in German Studies, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Muenster
10/2020 – 11/2024: Master Studies in Comparative Literature as well as in Religious Studies, Bochum University
10/2019 – 06/2020: Erasmus+, Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
10/2017 – 09/2020: Bachelor Studies in German Studies, University of Leipzig
10/2016 – 03/2019: Bachelor Studies in Religious Studies University of Leipzig

Since 10/2023: PhD in English Studies, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster, Germany
09/2022 – 07/2023: Research Assistant, Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
10/2020 – 06/2023: Master Studies in English Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
09/2021 – 02/2022: Tutor for “English Language School Level A”, English Language School, TED University Ankara, Turkey
10/2016 – 07/2020: Bachelor Studies in English Language Teaching, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Since 10/2024: PhD student in English Studies at the Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster, Germany
06/2024: “Blue Humanities: ScienceHumanities International Summer School” participant, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
05/2023 – 07/2023: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Internship, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
01/2023 – 04/2023: Exchange student, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
09/2021 – 07/2023: Master of Arts in Anglophone Literature, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, France
09/2020 – 04/2021: Erasmus+ Mobility, Bangor University, County Gwynedd, Wales
09/2018 – 07/2021: Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France