since Winter Semester 2002/03
Professor of Modern German Literary History with an emphasis on Cultural Studies at the German Department of Faculty 05 of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Summer Semester 2002
Covering Professor of Modern German Literature/Comparative Literature at the Faculty of German of the University of Kassel
2002
Postdoctoral thesis [Habilitation] (University of Kassel)
1999 to 2001
Covering lecturer at the Faculty of German of the University of Kassel
1995 to 1998
Research assistant at the advanced research unit (Forschungsstelle) Georg Büchner – Literature and History of the Vormärz period"
1993 to 1994
Research scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
1992
PhD, University of Marburg, "summa cum laude"
1989 to 2002
Associate lecturer at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Darmstadt
1988 to 1990
PhD scholarship of the Graduate Student Scholarship of Hesse (Hessische Graduiertenförderung)
1985
First State Examination for Teaching at Secondary Schools, University of Marburg, "with distinction"