CV
2014/15 |
Academic sabbatical within the Clusters of Excellence funding line “Freiräume” of Humboldt-University for completing a monograph (winter semester) |
2014/15 |
Member of the academic advisory council for the exhibition “Homosexualität_en” (Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) and Schwules Museum* (Gay Museum*)) |
Since 2013 |
member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) |
2012 |
Foundation of the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality |
Since 2012 |
professor of Medieval German literature at Humboldt-University Berlin |
2012-2014 |
Member (2012/13: chairman) of the advisory board of the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld |
Since 2011
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personal tutor of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) |
2010-2012 |
Vice dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2010-2012 |
Member of the executive committee of the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2007-2010 |
Executive director of the Department of German Literature, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
Since 2007 |
member of the board of directors of the Cornelia Goethe Center, Goethe-University Frankfurt (since 2012: associated member) |
2004-2012 |
Professor of Medieval German literature at Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2003 |
Habilitation in the Department of German Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Venia Legendi (licence for teaching at German universities) for German philology of the medieval and early modern period |
2002-2003 |
Substitute for the professorship of German Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Konstanz |
1994 |
PhD (Dr. phil.) in German Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München (summa cum laude/with highest honor) |
1990-2003 |
Research assistant, Department of German Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich |
1990 |
First state examination (Staatsexamen) for teaching degree for secondary schools, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich |
Grants, visits and awards
2017 |
Visiting professor at New York University (April), organized the Medieval and Renaissance Center’s annual conference together with Prof. Dr. Sarah Kay |
2015 |
Visiting professor at King's College, London (January to March) |
2008-2009 |
Senior fellow at International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna/Austria (October 2008 to January 2009) |
2007 |
Distinguished visiting professor (Max Kade Foundation) in the German Department, University of Washington, Seattle (February to April 2007) |
2003-2008 |
Lectureship (Gender Studies, Queer Studies), Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich (now: Zurich University of the Arts) |
2003-2004 |
Heisenberg-Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG) |
2000-2001 |
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Department, University of Washington |
1997 |
DAAD-visiting professor (German Academic Exchange Service) in the German Department, New York University (Spring Term) |
1994 |
Award for dissertation (Promotionspreis), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich |
Current research projects
- Project leader of the DFG Project “Online Repertory of Medieval German Vernacular Translations of Latin Hymns and Sequences (Berliner Repertorium)”
- Founder and director of the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality with three research projects financed by external funding
Research areas
- German literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period
- Medieval German vernacular translations of Latin hymns and sequences
- Cultural history of sexuality
- Gender Studies/Queer Studies
- Animal Studies