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Employment

Since October 2008: Lecturer at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Chair: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roger Lüdeke).
August 2007 – September 2008: Exam-Coordinator for the English Department, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
Oktober 2006 – Juli 2007: Lecturer at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
September 2002 – September 2006: Student Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Chair: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Therese Seidel).
September 2000 – April 2004: Technical Translator, Marketing and Sales Support, Panasonic Industrial Europe, GmbH.

Education

Summer 2009: Scholarship at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland (Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation Scholarships, August-October)
Since Winter 2006: Doctoral candidate at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Chair: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roger Lüdeke). Dissertation: "Music and Memory in the Works of James Joyce". Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Therese Seidel.
Summer 2006: Graduation Magister Artium in Modern English Literature, Medieval English Literature and Musicology. M.A.-Thesis: "The Function of Music in James Joyce's Dubliners and Ulysses". Supervisors Univ.-Prof. Dr. Therese Seidel, PD Susanne Peters.
Winter 2005: Research-Scholarship at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (DAAD-Stipendiate, August-October).
Winter 2000/2001: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Studies in English, Medieval English and Musicology.

Teaching

•  Winter 2008/2009: Undergraduate course "The Musicalization of Fiction in Modern and Postmodern Literature".
•  Summer 2007: Tutorial to "Introduction to English Literature".
•  Winter 2006/2007: Undergraduate course "Synge and the Irish Language".

Publications

1. Thomas Gurke: "After all the Errears and Erroriboose: The Zurich James Joyce Workshop of August 2008". James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 23 (Spring 2009) No. 1, p. 20.
2. Thomas Gurke: (Review) "Dieter Fuchs. Joyce and Menippos. 'A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog". Anglia, Vol. 126 (2008) No. 3, pp. 563-567.

Talks, Papers, Workshops

August 2009: "The Memory of Music in 'Sirens'". Workshop "Musicillogical Joyce", International James Joyce Foundation Zurich, Switzerland.
April 2009: James Joyce Research Colloquium, James Joyce Research Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland.
August 2008: "Errears in 'Sirens'". Workshop "Errears and Erroriboose", International James Joyce Foundation Zurich, Switzerland.
June 2006: "The Function of Music in Dubliners". XXth. International James Joyce Symposium in Budapest, Hungary.
March – April 2006: Displays "Beckett and Music/Beckett and Radio Drama" at the Exhibition "Beckett 100", held at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf.
June 2004: XIXth. International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
March 2004: Assistance at the Interdisciplinary Conference "Beckett und die deutsche Kultur". Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.