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CV

since 2019
Extended denomination: " Medieval German Language and Literature with a Focus on Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Times and Historical Gender Studies"

April 2018
Guest of Honor at the Villa Massimo, Rome

2017
Co-Applicant of a Graduate School on “Dynamics of Conventionality”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

seit 2017
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cologne

2015
DAAD-Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona at Tucson (USA) 

2014-2015
Chair of the subject group 3 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cologne

2014-2015
Chair of the Institute of German Language and Literature I, Cologne

since 2013
Co-editor of the Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (ZfdPh)

since 2012
Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne

since 2011
Co-Editor of the Book Series: Literatur – Theorie – Geschichte (de Gruyter)

2009
Offer of a W3-Professorship of Medieval German Literature and Language at the University of Constance (refused)

2005-2012
Professor of Medieval German Literature and Language at the University Siegen

2003-2004
Lise-Meitner-Scholarship, granted by the state NRW (Habilitation/Second Book 2004)

2001-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

1999
Guest Lecturer at the Karls-University, Prague

1996-2004
Assistant Professor at the University of Cologne

1994
DAAD-Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

1990-1994
Research and Teaching Assistant, Medieval German Language and Literature, at the University of Cologne; PhD 1994

Education (1982-1990)
German Studies, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cologne (1982-1990)

Mitgliedschaften

  • Seit 2011 Mitglied des Gutachter_innenausschusses für Sprachassistenzen in Nordamerika, DAAD
  • 2012-2017 Mitglied der Strukturkommission der Philosophischen Fakultät Universität zu Köln