PD Dr. Silke Schmidt
Factsheet
- Year of birth: 1983
- City: Wiesbaden
- Family status: Mother of many books , 1 dog
Professional training
Professional experience
2018 Founder COMPANYPOETS.COM and diebuntenhunde.com
since 2011 Lecturer, American Studies, Uni Marburg
2010-18 Research associate, Unis Mainz, Giessen
since 2010 Freelance PR consulting
2007-10 PR assistant, care provider
2005-2018 Instructor for intl. political youth education
Stays abroad (> 1 month)
2015 Israel/Palestine; 2014 Hong Kong; 2012 Cairo, Egypt; 2011/2012 Ann Arbor, U.S.; 2008 Havana, Cuba; 2008 Sanaa, Yemen; 2007/2008 Philadelphia, U.S.; 2006 Kumasi, Ghana; 2000/2001 Las Vegas, U.S. (High School)
Languages
Englisch (fluent), Spanish (advanced), French (advanced), Arabic (basic), Hebrew (basic)
Selected publications
Schmidt, Silke. “The Trouble with Diversity Management in American Studies: Calling for a Balanced Value Approach in Academic Organizations.” The Many Faces of Diversity. Ed. Carmen Birkle and Silke Schmidt. forthcoming.
—. “Ahead of the Curve in the MBA Bubble: Institutional Narcissism and the Narrative Reconstruction of Moral Agency.” Frontiers of Narrative Studies 3.1 (2017): 142-57.
—. “The (Ante-)Narrative of G/growth in Management Consulting as Liminal Sense-Making Strategy.” ReThinking Management: New and Critical Perspectives on Managing and Organizing, with and beyond Cultural Turns. Ed. Wendelin Küpers, Stephan Sonnenburg, and Martin Zierold. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017. 151-70.
—. (Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim: Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014.
—. Business Survival Guide – Culture Clash: Business Coaching für (Geistes-) Wissenschaftler. Hamburg: kreutzfeldt digital, 2014.
