2023/24 (fall term) DFG Merkator-Fellow, DFG-Doctoral Program “Cultures of Critique” (Kulturen der Kritik), Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

2017/18 (fall term) Visiting Researcher, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, USA

2017 (spring term) Visiting Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Université Paris X Ouest Nanterre, France

2015-present Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2007-2015 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2009–2010 (fall term) Interim Professor (Vertretungsprofessur C4) Chair of Western European Literatures, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

2007 PhD at the Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, USA

2004-2006 DFG-research fellow in the Doctoral Programme “Representation – Rhetoric – Knowledge,” European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany

1999 MA Sociology, Department of Sociology Bielefeld University; School of Oriental and African Studies, London; Universidad Complutense Madrid

1993 BA Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany