• 19th and 20th century literature in English
• 17th century Drama
• Relation of Victorian and neo-Victorian narratives
• Short Fiction
• Gender studies
• Queer theory
• Sound studies
• Serial narration & theories of seriality

• British literature (narrative, dramatic, lyrical) from 16th-21st century
• Literary and cultural theory
• Cultural analysis
• Film &TV

since 2022 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
since 2021 — Member of Research Platform SOLE (The Stress of Life): https://sole.univie.ac.at/
since 2020 — Book series Editor Dutch Quarterly Review (BrillRodopi; together with Eva Zettelmann)
since 2020 — Book series Editor Literatur- Theater - Medien (Lit-Verlag; together with Ralph Poole)
since 2020 — Deputy Head of Research Platform GAIN (Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities): https://gain.univie.ac.at/
2020-22 — Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Spokesperson for Professorial Curia, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Member of Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
since 2017 — Full Professor for "British Literature" at the University of Vienna
2016/17 — Guest Professor for English Literature, University of Vienna
2015/16 — Guest Professor for English Literature, University of Bayreuth
2014/15 — Guest Professor for English Literature of the long Nineteenth Century, University of Zurich
2013 — Associate Professor at Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
2012 — Guest Professor for English Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin
2012 — Associate Professor at Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
2011/12 — Docent at Amsterdam University College
2011 — Habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt
2004/05 — Postdoc at Goethe University Frankfurt
2004 — Postdoc at Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
2003 — Doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1997 — Magistra Artium at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1993/94 — Year abroad at Unversity of St. Andrews
1991-97 — Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich