Humans are semiotic creatures. Exploring literary – sometimes historically or culturally foreign, sometimes challenging – texts, genres, traditions, innovations as well as their social and ideological contexts helps us ‘read’ and understand the world. I specialise in British literature and its interaction with cultural theories, non-literary discourses, as well as cultural, political and popular debates and audio-visual media.

since 03/2025 — Chair, Gender Committee, University of Vienna
since 10/2024 — Deputy Head of Study Programme, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2022-24 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
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)
2020-24 — Deputy Head of Research Platform GAIN (Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities): https://gain.univie.ac.at/
2020-24 — Member of Research Platform SOLE (The Stress of Life): https://sole.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