CV

2004-                 Distinguished Professor of German, Vanderbilt University

1996 - 2004      Professor of German, Princeton University

1993 - 1996      Research Associate, Hamburg University, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1995                  Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University

1994                  Max Kade Distinguished Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1993                  Visiting Professor, University of Frankfurt/Oder

1991                  Lecturer, German Departments, Hamburg University and Technische Hochschule Darmstadt

1989 - 1991      Research Associate, Hamburg University, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1990                  Lecturer, German Department, Hamburg University

1989                  Visiting Assistant Professor, Catholic University Lublin/Poland

1988                  Lecturer, German Department, Freie Universität Berlin

1988                  Visiting Assistant Professor, Catholic University Lublin/Poland

1987                  Lecturer, German Department and Department of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin

1986                  Co-curator of an exhibition on “Bettine von Arnim”, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin

1984                  Lecturer, German Department, Freie Universität Berlin

1978 - 1984      Free-lance writer (radio stations, newspapers, journals), and editor

1976 - 1978      Teacher, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Cologne

1993                   Habilitation, German Literature, University of Hamburg

1989                   Dr.phil., German Language and Literature, Free University of Berlin, (summa cum laude)
                            Minor fields: Philosophy, Geography

1976                   Staatsexamen für den Höheren Schuldienst, German Language and Literature, Geography,
                            University of Marburg

1973 - 1974       Undergraduate study, University of Stuttgart

1971 - 1973       Undergraduate study, Free University of Berlin

1970 - 1971       Undergraduate study, Technical University of Berlin

2008/09             Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation

2002                  Graduate Mentoring Award, Princeton University

1997 - 2000      Summer Research Grants, Princeton University

1992/93             Feodor-Lynen-Grant, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, to do research at the Centre National de
                            la Recherche scientifique, Paris

1992                   Grants, Berlin Government and the “Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung,” Berlin

1992                   Travel Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), to do research at the Bibliothèque
                            Nationale, Paris

1991/92             Scholarship, Berliner Festspiele GmbH

1990                  Joachim-Tiburtius-Prize, for Best Dissertation (Year of 1989)

1989                  Travel Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), to present papers at the Centre
                           National de la Recherche scientifique, Paris

1988                  Grant, Berlin Government, to do research at the Goethe-Schiller-Archiv, Weimar

1988                  Grant, Robert-Bosch-Foundation, Stuttgart, to teach at the Catholic University, Lublin

1985 - 1987      Graduate Scholarship, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst