Vita

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  • Member of the Board and Council of the Graduate Academy since December 2022 (previously member of the Council from 2014 to 2020 and member of the Board from 2014 to 2019)
  • Member of the Senate of the University of Kassel since October 2017
  • 2014 to 2020 Dean of the Faculty 02 Humanities and Cultural Studies, previously Vice Dean of the Faculty (2011-2013)
  • since 2010 Spokesperson of the Humanities and Cultural Studies Doctoral College (GeKKo) of the department

Academic centers

  • May 2018 to June 2023 Director of the Latin American Research Center of the University of Kassel (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, CELA)
  • May 2017 to June 2023 Member of the Comité directivo of the Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales(CALAS), funded by the BMBF
  • 2014 to 2017 Founding Director of the Argentina Forum at the University of Kassel

Specialist societies

Scientific series and journals

  • Member of the scientific board of the journal energeia since 2023
  • since 2019 Co-editor of the series MeLis. Media, Literatures, Languages (Peter Lang, Berlin)
  • since 2017 Co-editor of the series Hispano-Americana. History, Language, Literature (Peter Lang, Berlin).
  • since 2011 Co-editor of the series Historische Dialogforschung (De Gruyter, Berlin)
  • since January 2023 Corresponding member of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen
  • Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Kassel since 2007
  • Calls to other universities: 2013 call to the W3 professorship for Romance Linguistics at the University of Würzburg (rejected); 2009 call to the W3 professorship for French Translation Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (rejected); 2008 call to the W3 professorship for French Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen (rejected)
  • 2007 Habilitation on the topic "Questions and answers in historical contexts. A contribution to historical dialog analysis and historical pragmatics using the example of Old Spanish literary texts" at the Ruhr University Bochum
  • 2003-2007 Academic Councilor at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Regensburg
  • 2000-2003 Habilitation scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation
  • 1996-2000 Research assistant at the Ruhr University Bochum
  • 1993-1996 Doctorate (summa cum laude) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich on the topic "Futurität im Französischen der Gegenwart - Semantik und Pragmatik der Tempora der Zukunft" (Futurity in contemporary French - semantics and pragmatics of future tenses)
  • 1993-1995 Research assistant at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • 1985-1992 Studied Romance philology (French and Spanish) and German philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 1988/1989 study visit and language assistant in Reims