04-07/2024
Senior Fellow at the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies "Imaginaria of Force"
since 09/2015
Full Professor of German & Comparative Literature
German Department
University of Tübingen
2013-2014
Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2005-2015
Full Professor, German Department, New York University, USA
2004
Associate Professor, German Department, New York University, USA
2002
Associate Professor, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK
2001
Habilitation in General and Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, thesis about Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 2001: Der engagierte Solitär. Die Gewinnung des Begriffs Einsamkeit aus der Phänomenologie der Liebe im Frühwerk Jean-Paul Sartres. Berlin 2001: Akademie Verlag
1995-2005
Assistant to Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Eberhard Lämmert (1996-2005 at Berliner Zentrum für Literaturforschung)
1995
PhD in General and Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin, thesis about the late Weimar Republic (published in 1996: Konstellation und Existenz. Kritik der Geschichte um 1930: Studien zu Heidegger, Benjamin, Jahnn und Musil. Tübingen 1996: Stauffenburg Colloquium Bd. 39)
1993-1994
Doctoral fellowship, Berliner Senat/NaFöG
1991-1992
Studies in German Literature and Philosophy in Oxford, St. Hugh’s College, UK (Master of Studies, oxon. 1992)
1987-1991
Studies in General and Comparative Literature, Philosophy and German Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin (Magister artium 1991)