Dr. Isabelle Leitloff

International Relations Office

Coordinator - Employee

Implementation Office Lead (CIO-Lead) of the European Alliance COLOURS

Office Address:
Technologiepark 6
33100 Paderborn
Room:
TP6.1.302
Office hours:

Consultations regarding potential COLOURS collaborations can be arranged by appointment. Consultations are available as one-to-one sessions or as group sessions, both online and in person. If you are interested, please contact implementation.colours@upb.de or isabelle.leitloff@upb.de.

About Isabelle Leitloff

Isabelle Leitloff is COLOURS Implementation Office Lead and is therefore responsible for the central coordination of COLOURS activities at UPB and in the region. She is the contact person for implementation measures at UPB, leads the implementation office, and thus acts as an interface between the people involved in the COLOURS work packages, the partner universities, the Coordination & Support Office, and external stakeholders in the region.

She integrates the measures into the well-functioning structures of the UPB, so that the Implementation Office maintain close contact with the Executive board, the International Office, and the administration, as well as with other EU alliances at the national and international level.

She previously served as executive director of the University Council and personal advisor to the president at the European University of Flensburg; before that, she was the coordinator of an international project and earned her Ph.D. in cultural and literary studies on transatlantic transformation processes. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and in academic administration both in Germany and abroad, including in Italy, Turkey, Cuba, Brazil, Bremen, Flensburg, and Paderborn.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 01.04.2024: Implementation Office Lead European Alliance COLOURS

Isabelle Leitloff is COLOURS Implementation Office Lead and is therefore responsible for the central coordination of COLOURS activities at UPB and in the region. 

15.09.2022 - 31.03.2024: Managing Director of the University Council at the European University of Flensburg and Personal Advisor to the President

01.12.2020 - 15.09.2022: Postdoctoral researcher in Intercultural German Studies at the University of Paderborn

01.09.2020 - 15.09.2022: Coordinator of the BMBF project Internationalization of Teacher Education at home: Intercultural Literature as a Module at the European University of Flensburg

2021: Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Paderborn

11/2020: PhD in German Studies (summa cum laude): Transatlantic processes of transformation in the Black Atlantic. Hubert Fichte and postcolonial literary concepts from Brazil and Cuba in discourse

01.12.2018 - 11/2020: Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, PhD student in Intercultural German Studies

04.12.2017 - 30.11.2018: DAAD research fellowship at the University of Havana

2016 - 30.11.2017: Research Fellow at the Institute of German Studies and Comparative Literature

2016 - 2016: Research fellowship and teaching post at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey

2016 - 2016: Research assistant at the Institute of German Studies and Comparative Literature, working with Prof. Dr Michael Hofmann

2015 - 2016: Student assistant in the peer mentoring programme at the University of Paderborn, specialising in psychology

2013 - 2016: Masters degree programme in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn

2010 - 2013: Bachelors degree programme in Romance Studies at the University of Bremen: double subject Bachelors degree in Spanish and Italian Studies, with a specialisation in Portuguese as a profile subject