Multilingual literatures 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 | Visiting Lecturer, 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, German Research Council/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| 2010 | Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service/Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) |
| 2008 - 2009 | Research Fellowship, Fritz Thyssen Foundation 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 |
| 2002 | Ancien Pensionnaire, École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
2001 - 2004 | Doctoral Fellow, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Merit Foundation) |
1999 - 2006 | Fellow, Mathey College, Princeton University |
1999 - 2003 | Fellowship, The Graduate School, Princeton University |
1998 - 1999 | Fellow, Fulbright Enterprise Scholar Program, German-American Fulbright Commission, Bonn in conjunction with Zeit-Stiftung, Hamburg |
1995 - 2001 | Fellow, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Merit Foundation) |
| 2023 – 2028 | Member, English Romantic Forum Executive Committee, Modern Language Association (MLA) |
| 2023 – 2027 | Deputy Member, University Senate, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2022 – present | Faculty Advisor (Vertrauensdozentin), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Merit Foundation) |
| 2022 – present | Director, exchange with University of California, Davis |
| 2020 | Reviewer, German-American Fulbright Commission |
| 2019 – present | Chair, Ethics Committee, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2019- present | Member, Habilitationsausschuss, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2019 – 2021 | Member, Faculty Council (Fakultätsrat), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2018-2020 | Chair, Institute of English and American Studies, 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, German Academic Exchange Service/Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) |
| 2013 | Reader, Fordham University Press |
| 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) |
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 |