Curriculum Vitae

 

1988-1994: Studies of Musicology, General and Comparative Literature, Italian at the Freie Universität Berlin

1994-1995: Study and research stay at Stanford University, California with a DAAD graduate scholarship

1996-1999: Scholar of the Research Training Group "Theory of Literature and Communication" at the University of Konstanz

1999: Doctorate at the University of Konstanz with the dissertation „Metaphorologie der Rührung. Ästhetische Theorie und Mechanik im 18. Jahrhundert“

2000-2009: Senior Assistant in the Department of Modern German Literature at the German Seminar of the University of Zurich

2000-2011: Editor of the journal figurationen. gender literatur kultur

2009-2011: SNF-Research project „Zwischen Anschauung und Abstraktion. Die Figur als poetologische Kategorie“ at the German Seminar of the University of Zurich

2009-2015: Lectureships at the Universities of Zurich and Basel

2011-2015: Senior Assistant and Lecturer at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Bern

2014: Habilitation at the University of Bern, Venia docendi: Neuere deutsche Literatur und Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Komparatistik)

WS 2015/2016: Professor (W2 on a temporary basis) for General and Comparative Literary Studies at the Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und at the Friedrich Schlegel-Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, Freie Universität Berlin

since March 2016: Professor (W3) of German Studies and General Literature with a focus on forms of knowledge at RWTH Aachen University

WS 2020/21: Fellow at the DFG-Kolleg-Research Group "Imaginarien der Kraft", University of Hamburg