About me
Short biography
Chair for German studies at the University of Göttingen. Currently head of the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities. Research interests focus on cognitive poetics, digital humanities, and (German) literary history.
Education
University of Munich, M.A. German studies, philosophy, musicology, and Jewish studies (1989)
University of Munich, Dr.phil. German studies, philosophy, German as a Foreign Language (1992)
University of Munich, Dr.phil.habil. German studies (2000)
Employment
| 1992-2002 | Assistant professor for German studies, University of Munich |
| Current |
Chair for German studies, University of Göttingen |
Ad hoc
| 1990 | Visiting Scholar, Princeton University |
| 1996 | Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2003 | Visiting Professor, University of Trieste (2003), University of Bergamo (2004), University of Coimbra (2006) |
Professional organizations
Current
Chair of the Anneliese Meier and Reimar Lüst award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Chair of the working group "electronic publishing" of the Union of the German Academies
Committee coordinator of the German-Israeli-Foundation
Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected, 2008)
Member of the subcommittee on electronic publishing of the German Research Foundation
Member of the advisory board of the University Computing Centre GWDG
Member of the jury for th PhD program of the Cusanuswerk
Member of the advisory board of scholarly blogs hypotheses.org
Member of the jury for the literary award of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Member of the International Association for the Empirical study of Literature and Media
Member of the Görres Gesellschaft
Member of the German Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Member of the German studies association
In the past
Member of the DFG expert group for the evaluation of the distributed liberary system in Germany "Sondersammelgebiete" (2009/2010)
Chair of the TransCoop program of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (2008-2010)
Project Board Member for the European Science Foundation Bibliometric Database Scoping Project (2008/2009)
Member of the advisory board of the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (2008-2010)
Member of the review board 105 of the German Research Organization (elected, 2007-2011)
Member of the advisory board "Göttinger Literaturherbst" (2006-2010)
Member of the advisory board of the Zentrales Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke (2005-2007)
Advisory of the Gleim-Haus, Halberstadt (2004-2010)
Reviewer for the Agency for quality management through accreditation AQAS (2003-2008)
Editorial activities
Co-Editor
Journal of Literary Theory
Palaestra. Untersuchungen aus der deutschen und skandinavischen Philologie. Begründet von Erich Schmidt und Alois Brandl
Revisionen. Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie
Editorial Boards
Arbitrium. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft