CV

• since 2020 Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature, University of Cologne
• 2014-2020 Assistant Professor of German Literature, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
• 2013/14 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2013 Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship, granted by Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung (Forschungszentrum Gotha)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen
• 2009 Ph.D. in Medieval German Literature
• 2005-12 Collaborative Research Centre „Transformations of Antiquity“, Humboldt-University Berlin
• 2004 Ph.D. Scholarship, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
• 2004 Assistant Lecturer Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Dresden University
• 1997–2003 Scandinavian Studies, Medieval German Literature (Humboldt-University Berlin), Religious Studies (Freie Universität Berlin); M.A. in Scandinavian Studies 2003

Memberships

• Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV)
• Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG)
• Wolfram von Eschenbach-Gesellschaft e.V.
• Mediävistenverband e.V.
• Netzwerk „Cultural and Literary Animal Studies“ (Univ. Frankfurt/M.)