Cornelia Reinhold

Name: Cornelia Reinhold, M.A.

Places/Institutions: Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences/TUD Dresden University of Technology

Contact: info[at]cornelia-reinhold.de

Current title:

Biographical research on female authors in Germany

Life and work in the travel literature industry

Abstract:

In the planned doctoral project, I will focus on the lives of German female authors and analyze them with the help of grounded theory. I will conduct narrative interviews with authors who have already published books about their travels in publishing houses that are not self-publishers. As a journalist and event manager, I have been working for several years on the question of what opportunities, challenges and limitations exist for women to work as freelance travel writers. I want to focus on women, especially from the travel literature industry, and examine the advantages and disadvantages of being a woman in this field. I analyze biographies, examine different stages and describe the careers of female travel writers up to the present day. There are currently no comparable projects, so this dissertation topic has a unique selling point. With my study, I would like to close the existing research gap.

Short biography:

Cornelia Reinhold works as a program coordinator at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and is active as a lecturer and speaker in adult education in the areas of body language & rhetoric, Public Relations Advisor and experiential education.

The graduate social and health journalist (M.A.) also works as an event manager and agent in the literary industry.

Since 2012: Part-time lecturer, referee and reviewer of Bachelor's and Master's theses

2008 - 2011: Studied Social and Health Journalism (M.A.) at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences,

2010: Semester abroad at the University of Victoria (B.C.)

2005 - 2008: Studied Health Promotion and Management (B.A.) at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences