Since 2021 Research Associate in General and Comparative Literature, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2011-2020 Senior Lecturer in German and European Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2010-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of German Studies, University of Pittsburgh
2003-2010 Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
2003 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University
1999-2003 PhD in Comparative Literature, Stanford University
1998-1999 Worked in PR and publications for a Berlin exhibition agency
1995-1997 M.A. in Comparative Literature, Stanford University
1992-1994 Apprenticeship as a publisher's bookseller, Frankfurt am Main
1990-92; 1994-95 Studies in General and Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Romance Studies, Free University of Berlin
Main research interests:
The afterlife of religion
Imagery and literature
Realism - fin de siècle - modernism in the European context