Education and work experience
Trainings
High school
Maturitaet A (classical language), Kantonsschule Zuercher Oberland, Wetzikon (CH)
1980
- 1986
Studies BA/MA
German language and literature, French literature, Musicology
Universitaet Zuerich, Université de Genève, Universitaet Konstanz
1987
- 1993
Work experience
Senior Researcher, Leader of Research group
Research Module "Esthetics" as part of the SNF ProDoc project "Das unsichere Wissen der Literatur: Recht, Natur, Aesthetik", in cooperation with Prof. Maximilian Bergengruen, Université de Genève et Karlsruher Institut für Technologie and Prof. Peter Schnyder, Université de Neuchâtel
2012
- 2015
Visiting Scholar
2018
- 2018
Canada
Visiting scholar
2017
- 2018
Canada
"Modern Luxury: Amiguities of the Superfluous in Cultural Theory, Literature and the Aesthetics since late Eighteenth Century"
2018
- 2022
Suisse
Vice-Dean, Faculté des lettres
2014
- 2017
Senior Researcher, Leader of Research group
Project "Schrift Medium Architektur" as a part of the NCCR "Mediality. Medienwandel - Medienwechsel - Medienwissen. Historische Perspektiven" of the Swiss National Foundation
2014
- 2017
Senior Researcher, Leader of Research group
"Stimmung". History and critique of modern aesthetic sensibility in literature, music, and art
Research project of Swiss National Science Foundation
2008
- 2013
Assistant professor in Comparative Literature
Seminar fuer Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (AVL), Universitaet Zuerich
2008
- 2009
Research grant
Institut fuer deutsche Philologie, Universitaet Wuerzburg (BRD)
Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
2007
Habilitation
Venia legendi, Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Universitaet Zuerich
2007
Professeur remplaçant of German Literature
Section d'allemand, Université de Lausanne
2004
- 2005
Senior researcher
"Surface" ("Oberflaeche"). About a problem in the aesthetics of architecture and literature in 19th-century Germany
Research project of Swiss National Science Foundation
2003
- 2006
Research grant
Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Research project, Swiss National Science Foundation
1999
- 2000
Maître-assistant, German literature
Département de langue et littérature allemandes, Université de Genève
1997
- 2003
PhD
Philosophische Fakultaet, Universitaet Zuerich
1996
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft
Deutsches Seminar, Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Universitaet Zuerich (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadler)
1993
- 1997
Licentiatus philosophiae
Philosophische Fakultaet, Universitaet Zuerich
1993
