Since 2000

Full Professor and Chair of Dutch Literature, Institute of Dutch Language and Literature of the University of Cologne

2017

Fellow at the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Cologne

2012-2013

Managing Director of the Department Modern Languages and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne

1999-2000

Substituting professor, Chair of Dutch Philology at the University of Cologne

1998

Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) at the University of Münster, venia legendi: Dutch Philology

1990-1998

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (assistant professor) at the Institute for Dutch Philology, University of Münster

1991

Dr. phil. University of Münster

1987-1990

Doctoral grant from the Cusanuswerk

1986-1987

Staff member of the Chair for Early Modern History at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

1976-1982

Study of Catholic Theology, Dutch Philology and (since 1979) History at the University of Münster