Since 10/2007 Lecturer (LfbA) at the English II Department of the University of Cologne with a focus on language practice (coordinator), literary studies, film studies and teaching methodology.
1998 – 2008 freelance translator and copy editor for non-fiction (German and English); ongoing copy-editor/advisor for art publications.
2009 nominated for the German Young Adult Literature Award (Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis), non-fiction, for the translation (English into German) of the book So leben wir by Jonas Bendiksen.
1/2005 doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Humanities Hannover, summa cum laude (1.0).
4/1996 – 3/1998 teaching member of the faculty for Romance Literature, Hannover University.
10/1995 Magister Artium in English, Italian and French Studies at Hannover University (1.0).
1987 – 1995 Studies English and Romance Studies at Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, at the University of Sheffield and at Hannover University.
1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 several weeks/months of research in Florence and Siena.