is Professor for Comparative Literature at the University of Erfurt since 1999. She has also taught at the University of Konstanz, the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Main), the Philipps-Universität Marburg, as well as the University of California, Santa Barbara. She directed (together with Joseph Vogl, Friedrich Balke, and Bernhard Siegert) the research training group “Mediale Historiographien” (funded by DFG, in Erfurt and Weimar 2004–2014). She has held fellowships at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar, at Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg University of Konstanz, and at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna (in 2020). Her recent publications include the co-edited volumes Flucht und Szene. Perspektiven und Formen eines Theaters der Fliehenden (Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2018), Experimentalanordnungen der Bildung. Exteriorität – Theatralität – Literarizität (Paderborn: Fink, 2014), and Allegorie. DFG-Symposium 2014 (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2016).