Fall 2015
Spring 2004

Germanist/comparatist, head of the research area World literature and of the project The Faces of Hell. Torsion and Disfiguration in Dante’s Divina Commedia and Selected Pictorial Genres

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Trained in German and Comparative Literature I received my PhD in 1999 and my Habilitation (second thesis) in 2010 at the Technische Universität Berlin. I teach German and Comparative Literature at the Technische Universität Berlin

• Summer Semester 2016 Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz
• Fall 2015 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor am German Department der University of Virginia in Charlottesville/USA
• 2013/2014 Fellow am Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald mit dem Projekt Ver-rückte Dinge. Objekte zwischen Eigen- und Unsinn in Märchentexten um 1800
• 2011–2013 Researcher: Projekt The Face as Artefact in Art and Science
• Since 2010 Member of the DFG-Network Sprachen des Sammelns. Literatur als Medium und Reflexionsform des Sammelns
• WS 2010/2011 Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität Chemnitz
• SoSe 2010 Kurt-David-Brühl-Professorship at the Centrum für Jüdische Studien/Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz