Since 10/2008 Lecturer at English Seminar II of the University of Cologne
10/2007 – 09/2008 tutor at English Seminar II (language practice and literary studies)
1998 – 2008 free-lance translator and copy-editor of various non-fictional works (English and German)
2009 nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German YA Literature Award), category non-fiction for the English to German translation of Jonas Bendiksen’s So leben wir
1/2005 Promotion Dr. phil. (mentor: Prof. Hoeges) Philosophical faculty of the University of Hannover, magna cum laude
4/1996 – 3/1998 research assistant including teaching at the French / Italian Studies Department , Hannover University
11/1995 – 3/1996 student assistant at Hannover University
10/1995 Magister Artium in English Studies and Romance Studies, magna cum laude
1987 – 1995 English and Romance Studies at Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Sheffield and Hannover
1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 several weeks of research scholarships in Florence und Siena.