• 2017 Venia legendi for General and Comparative Literature and Romance Literatures (University of Konstanz). Habilitation thesis: „Schreiben in Archipelen. Aphorismus und Sprichwort in (post-)kolonialen Kontexten französischer, spanischer und portugiesischer Sprache“ ("Writing in Archipelagos. Aphorism and proverb in (post-)colonial contexts of French, Spanish and Portuguese language").
• 2010 Doctorate (PhD) in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz; doctoral thesis: “Raum-Zeiten. Erzählen und Zeigen im Sevilla der Frühen Neuzeit“ (”Space-Times. Narrating and Showing in Seville in the Early Modern Period").
• 2007 First State examination for the teaching at High schools.
• 2003-2007 Studies of Romance languages and literature (French and Spanish) in Freiburg, Nice and Konstanz

• since 2018 Director of the Central Institute of Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• since 2018 Head of the Chair of Romance Literature II (focus on Spanish Literatures) at the KU
• 2017 - 2018 Deputy Professor of Romance Literature II, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
• 2014 - 2017 Post-doctoral researcher in the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz.
• 2011 - 2017 Research Assistant in the Department of Literary Studies, Romance Literatures (Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Sprenger), University of Konstanz.
• 2016 - 2017 Junior-Fellowship at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg of the University of Bern.
• 2014 - 2017 Director of the externally funded project "Genre and Globalization. Hybridization of Genres in (Post-)Colonial Contexts".
• 2007 - 2011 Academic assistant in the doctoral program "Time Cultures" of the Exc16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration".

• 2014 - 2017 Scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation's elite programme for postdoctoral students.
• 2011 - 2014 scholarship holder in the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Programme of the Ministry of Science and Art Baden-Württemberg
• 2013 Werner Krauss Prize of the German Hispanic Association to award doctoral theses.
• 2011 Award of the City of Konstanz for the promotion of young scientists for the doctoral thesis "Raum-Zeiten im Umbruch. Erzählen und Zeigen im Sevilla der Frühen Neuzeit".

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF)
• Deutscher Hispanistenverband (DHV)
• Deutscher Romanistenverband (DRV)
• Society of Caribbean Research (SOCARE)
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

• since 2019 Expert Reviewer for the Humboldt Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) (project and individual sponsorship)
• since 2018 Expert Reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, project and individual funding)
• 2012 - 2015 Expert Reviewer for selection procedures and follow-up applications of members of the Research Training Group "Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne", University of Konstanz.
• Since 2010 Expert reviewer for the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Maison Heinrich Heine and the Pädagogischen Austauschdienst (expert opinions for scholarships and stays abroad).

• Editor of the series Americana Eystettensia (AE), Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert (with Thomas Fischer).
  www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/EditorialColeccion.aspx?C1=Americana%20Eystettensia
• Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen”, Erich Schmidt Verlag (with Eva von Contzen, Mathias Herweg, Christa Jansohn, Barbara Kuhn and Thomas Wortmann)
  https://archivdigital.info/kurzportrait.html
• Series Transozeanische Literatur- und Kulturbeziehungen at Rombach Wissenschaft (with Anne Kraume)
  https://www.rombach-wissenschaft.de/kulturwissenschaft/

Doctoral Candidate

Initial Supervision

Natalia Eduardo, KU: From Soil to Road: technical Infrastructures in Banana Plantations in Central America in the 19th and 20th Century (continual)

Gabriela Randig, KU: Dekoloniale Kämpfe um das „Recht auf Stadt“ im Alten Zentrum von Salvador da Bahia (continual)

Uwe Stolzmann, KU: Helden und Schurken. Die Darstellung von Umsturz, Guerilla und Diktatur im Werk von Eduardo Galeano (continual)

Alessandro Rossi, Universität Konstanz: Pages arrachées. Séparation, mouvement et mise en relation dans le réseau des nouvelles subsahariennes de langue française (1990-2015) (completed)

Co-Supervision

Jessica Balling, KU: Placing Nations. Die (Re)Produktion und (Re)Konfiguration von Nationen (continual)

Feliciana Chiaradia, KU Eichstätt: (Selbst-)Darstellung von Identitäten in der kalabrischen ´Ndrangheta und dem Sinaloa-Kartell in Mexiko (continual)

Jacqueline Johana Peña Cañas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: El viaje de las “heroínas” y la representación del “no femenino” en las narco-telenovelas (Supervision as International Expert Researcher, completed)

Postdoc

Dr. Sergej Gordon: „Den Urwald lesen – zur literarischen Darstellung von Amazonien in der Frühen Neuzeit“ (continual)

Mentoring

Kirsten Behr, as part of the mentoring program for female doctoral candidates at the University of Paderborn (completed)