Since April 2023 University Professor for Romance Literary Studies, focus on French at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Kassel.
2021-2023 Substitute Professor for Spanish and Hispano-American Literatures at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2012-2021 Research assistant and habilitation at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Mannheim (Chair of Prof. Dr. Claudia Gronemann). Venia Legendi in Romance literature and media studies (November 2021). Habilitation thesis: Arte nuevo de hacer amigos en este tiempo. Transformations of the discourse of friendship in 17th century Spanish theater.
2016 six-month postdoctoral research stay (funded by DAAD) at the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (GRISO) and at the Universidad de Oviedo (IFES).
2008-2012 Research assistant at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Ruhr-University Bochum and doctoral thesis in the framework of the RUB Research School (chair of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Behrens) funded by the Excellence Initiative
PhD (summa cum laude, disputation January 2014): Shame and Writing. Das 'sujet honteux' bei Duras, Goldschmidt und Ernaux (awarded the Prize for Language and Science 2015 of the University of Mannheim, funded by the Karin- und Carl-Heinrich Esser-Stiftung).
2000-2007 Studies in General and Comparative Literature and English at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Lettres Modernes at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France.