studied Medieval German and English Literature at the University of Paderborn. In 2003 she received her doctoral degree at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since 2010 she is a Junior Professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum, where her habilitation was concluded in 2013. Her main research is focussed on 13./14.th century courtly literature, vernacular legends and poetry praising the Virgin Mary as well as geometric technical literature of the Early Modern Period.