Appointments
10/2012–date: Associate Professor of Modern German Literature, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities / Faculty of Letters, German Department
10/2008–9/2012: Junior Professor of Modern German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies; intermediate Evaluation in 9/2011
10/2005–9/2008: Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, German Department; chair: Prof Peter-André Alt
10/2002–9/2005: Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, German Department, chair: Prof Peter-André Alt
10/2001–9/2002: Junior Lecturer for Modern German Literature, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, German Department, chair: Prof Helmut Pfotenhauer
Distinctions
1–3/2020: Kade Visiting Professorship, University of California Davis
9–12/2019: Thomas Mann Fellowship, Villa Aurora / Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles
4/2016–3/2019: Research Grant “German Literature and American Film: Intercultural Media Relations 1912–2012,” Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
1/2015–12/2019: Einstein Visiting Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, Einstein Foundation Berlin
2–10/2012: Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews, Leverhulme Trust
5/2005: Outstanding Dissertation Award, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
4/2000–3/2003: Full Dissertation Grant, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
4/1994–9/1999: Full Study Grant, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
7/1993: Victor von Scheffel Award for Excellence in German Language and Literature, Literarische Gesellschaft Karlsruhe; Award for Outstanding Abitur Achievement, Wirtschaftsjunioren Chamber of Commerce Heilbronn, Förderkreis Main-Tauber
Education
1/2012: Berlin Centre for Higher Education, Berlin Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education
12/2004: Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, PhD, Modern German Literature, referees: Profs Helmut Pfotenhauer, Peter-André Alt
9–12/2000: Trinity College Dublin, Visiting Research Student, Departments of German and Theatre Studies; supervisor: Dr Gilbert Carr
12/1999: Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Bavarian First State Examination, German Studies, Sociology, and Political Science; main supervisor: Prof Helmut Pfotenhauer
7/1997: Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Intermediate Examination, German Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and History
7/1993: State of Baden-Württemberg, Abitur
Affiliations
5/2019–date: International Steering Committee Member, Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective,” Freie Universität Berlin
2017–date: Advisory Board Member, WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures, De Gruyter
4/2010–date: Ombudsperson (Vertrauensdozent), German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
4/2012–3/2017: Advisory Board Member, ERC Grant “Solitudes. Withdrawal and Engagement in the Long Seventeenth-Century,” University of Copenhagen
7/2009–6/2017: Vice President, Internationale Alfred Döblin-Gesellschaft, Freiburg im Breisgau
2008–date: Member, Internationale Alfred Döblin-Gesellschaft, Freiburg im Breisgau
2005–date: Member, Deutsche Thomas Mann-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
1999–date: Member, Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar