Multilingual literature and cultures |
Transcultural literatures |
Romanticism |
Nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century literature |
Legacies of Romanticism (especially in modern poetry, poetics, and critique) |
Intertextuality |
Aesthetics |
Critical theory |
Literature and philosophy |
| Interdisciplinary approaches to literature |
| 2018-present | University Professor, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2013 - 2018 | Junior Professor, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2011 - 2013 | Lecturer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2010 | Tutor, Summer School, King’s College, London |
| 2009 | Visiting Lecturer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2006 | Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Princeton University |
| 2004 - 2008 | Lecturer, Princeton University |
| 2003 | Visiting Assistant Professor, International Summer University, European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin |
| 2001 - 2002 | Pensionnaire Étranger, École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 2001 | M.A. in Comparative Literature, Princeton University |
| 2018 | Heisenberg Professorship – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn, Germany |
| 2010 | Research Fellowship - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Bonn, Germany |
| 2008 - 2009 | Research Fellowship - Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, Cologne, Germany, in conjunction with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University |
2007
| Sidonie Clauss Prize - biannual award for best dissertation - Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University |
| 2007 | Fellow - Center for Jewish Life, Princeton University |
2003 - 2004 | W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship - The Graduate School, Princeton University |
2003 - 2004 | Graduate Prize Fellowship - Princeton University Center for Human Values |
2001 - 2004 | Doctoral Fellow - Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
1999 - 2006 | Fellow - Mathey College, Princeton University |
1999 - 2003 | Fellowship, Princeton University Graduate School |
1998 - 1999 | Fellow - Fulbright Enterprise Scholar Program Fulbright Commission, Bonn, Zeit - Stiftung Hamburg, Germany |
1995 - 2001 | Fellow - Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 2019 | Member – Fakultätsrat - Philosophische Fakultät,Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2019 | Member – Habilitationsausschuss - Philosophische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2019 | Chair - Ethics Commission on Research involving Human Subjects -Philosophische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2017-2019 | Member - Advisory Board – North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) |
| 2015 | Reader, Northwestern University Press |
| 2015 | Reviewer of applications for DAAD Scholarships - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Bonn |
| 2013 | Reader, Fordham University Press |
| 2009 - 2011 | Interviewer of candidates for admission to Princeton - Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee |
| 2008 | Evaluator for the accessible version of the MLA Handbook - Modern Language Association |
| 2005 - 2007 | Assembly Delegate - Division: Philosophical Approaches to Literature - Modern Language Association (MLA) |
| 2006 | Organizing and Interdisciplinary Committees - Conference: Ambiguous Adventure of Modernity; Identities and Differences - Princeton University |
| 2005 - 2006 | American Comparative Literature Association Conference Program Committee - Department of Comparative Literature - Princeton University |
Modern Language Association (MLA) |
| American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) |
| American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) |
| American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) / Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) |
| North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) |
| International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) |
| American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) |
| Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik (German Society for English Romanticism) |
| Deutscher Hochschulverband |