Education
• 2008 PhD in Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Austria; Title of PhD-dissertation: „A comparison of literature in the context of migration in German and English“ (passed with distinction)
• 2002 First Degree (Mag.phil.) in Comparative Literature and English, University of Vienna, Austria; Title of MA-dissertation: “The Reception of Salman Rushdie in the German-speaking countries”
Employment history
- October 2016-September 2017 assistant professor, Department of General and Comparative Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany (teaching position)
- since winter term 2013 teaching assignment, Institute of General and Comparative Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany (BA seminars on theory of fiction, genre theory, multilingual literature, travel writing, world literature)
- March 2013-June 2014 parental leave
- November 2012-October 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences; collaboration in the research project “Literature on the Move” (part time contract during maternity leave)
- October 2008-September 2012 assistant professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Austria (research and teaching position)
- 2007-2008 Teaching fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2005-2006 Austrian Lektor, Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (teaching position)
- 2004-2005 Austrian Lektor, Corso di Laurea “Lingue e Comunicazione Internazionale”, Universitá degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy (teaching position)
- 2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, Stamford High School, Stamford, UK
Teaching assignments at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (UJEP) in Ústí nad Labem/Czech Republic (seminar on intercultural literary studies, winter term 2015/16) and at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria (lecture on children’s literature, winter term 2013/14), ERASMUS guest lectureship at the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom (summer term 2012).