2021: Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education in the Humanities (Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrums für Didaktiken der Geisteswissenschaften, IFDG)
July 2020: positive interim evaluation as Associate Professor (w/ tenure)
2017/18: Juniorprofessor/Assistant Professor "Didaktik: Literaturen und Kulturen der Anglophonen Welt"
Summer 2016: Research Stay at the University of Bath (UK) with Prof. Dr. Axel Goodbody
2014/15-SoSe 2017: pro tempore Professorship Didaktik: Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen
2009-2017: Junior Lecturer at the Department of English II at the University of Cologne
2009-2011: PhD at the University of duisburg-Essen (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens-Martin Gurr)
2004-2009: English Studies, German Studies, Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of Cologne (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt Sonderpädagogik (Master-equivalent), Thesis title: Mythos und Motiv. Tierdarstellungen bei E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka und Jack London)
2002-2004: Political Sciences at the University of Duisburg
2001-2002: Compulsory community service (Zivildienst) at a special needs school in Duisburg