Prof. Dr. Katja Gußmann

Curriculum Vitae

• Academic Education:

  2000	Goethe University Frankfurt: PhD (Dr. phil.) in the Department of Modern Philologies, Romance Studies/Latin American Studies with the dissertation titled “The Reality Text: Brazilian Urban Literature in the Age of Technical Images.”
  1997-1999	Goethe University Frankfurt: Doctoral Scholarship from the Hessian Graduate Funding Program
  1996/97	Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil: Research Scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
  1986-1992	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: Master’s degree in English Studies (Magister Anglistik) with minors in American Studies and Latin American Studies.

• Career Stages

  since 2018	Media University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt: Since October 2018, Professor in the Bachelor’s program in Journalism and Corporate Communication; previously served as a lecturer.
  since 2007	Freelance journalist for specialized and general media (including Lebensmittel-Zeitung, Horizont, Frankfurter Neue Presse, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung); thematic focuses: portrait, society, economy, science. Regular author of the portrait series “Frankfurter Prominenz – Der Rote Faden” in the Frankfurter Neue Presse from 2014 to 2016. A selection of articles from all areas of work can be found at: www.katja-gussmann.de.
  2000-2007	Editor at “Horizont – Fachzeitung für Marketing, Werbung und Medien,” responsible for the Reports section.
  1999	Editor for the trade journal “Gebäudemanagement,” focusing on infrastructure service providers.
  1995-1998	Freelance journalist for Journal Frankfurt, Darmstädter Echo, Lebensmittel-Zeitung, NGZ, among others; editor-in-chief of “Frankfurt geht aus” edition 1996/97.
  1994	Editor of the hotel and gastronomy trade magazine NGZ, part of the dfv Mediengruppe.
  1992-1993	Trainee at dfv Mediengruppe
  1987-1992	Freelance journalist for titles of the dfv Mediengruppe, special coverage in 1990 on “Neue Bundesländer” for the hotel and gastronomy trade magazine NGZ.