is research assistant with the cluster of excellence »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen« at the department of Philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, and until 2009 used to be a member of the collaborate research centre »Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste«. His research focus is on Kant’s critical philosophy, the faculty of imagination and the image, on power and potentiality, and on irrationality.
studied Comparative Literature and currently works as a member of the collaborate research center on »Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste« and as a lecture at the Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion at Freie Universität Berlin. In her research she focuses on the aesthetics of production in Modernism and Postmodernism and on the aesthetic transformation of kabbalah in contemporary literature and theory.