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Education

2002

Higher doctorate (Habilitation) in English Literature, University of Freiburg (Germany).

1990

PhD in German Literature, University College, Cardiff (UK).

1981

B.A. Honours in English and German, University College Cardiff (UK).

Professional Experience at Universities

04/09-currently

Professor of English Literature, University of Trier.

10/05-03/09 

Professor of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures, University of Bayreuth.

01/03-09/05

Associate Professor of British Literature and New English Literatures, University of Leipzig.

05/95-08/02

Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Freiburg.

10/92-04/95

Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Cologne.

10/91-07/92

Lektorin, Department of English, University of Mainz.

11/84-07/86

Lektorin, Department of English, University of Würzburg.

Professional Experience outside Universities

10/90-08/91

Project Manager for International Education Programmes, Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft e.V., Cologne (funded by and organized in co-operation with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research).

07/87-03/90

Assistant to Head of Sales and Marketing, Alcan Deutschland GmbH, Göttingen.

01/83-09/84

Executive Assistant, Audit and Management Consultancy Departments, Price Waterhouse GmbH, Frankfurt.

06/82-12/82

Secretary to the Director, London Festival Ballet.

03/77-08/77

Intern in the Central Department for Education, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart.