April 2014
Retirement
January 2010
Was awarded the honour of the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
2008-2014
Director of the Centre for French Studies Berlin
Since 2006
Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the Centre for French Studies, Freie Universität Berlin; Deputy Director of the Centre for French Studies
2002-2006
Professor of Comparative Literature with Particular Consideration of French Literature at the Centre for French Studies at the Technical University Berlin
2001
Offer of a Chair for Comparative Literature with Particular Consideration of French Literature at the Centre for French Studies at the Technical University Berlin; Offer of a Visiting Professorship at the University of Vienna, Austria
2000-2002
Deputy President of the German Association of Romance Studies
2000-2001
Research Funding for the book project “Women Writers Salon” received from the German Research Council (DFG)
1998-2000
President of the International Christine de Pizan Society
1996
Offer of a Chair for Romance Studies at the University of Hamburg (declined); Awarded the Margherita von Brentano-Prize (together with the other editors) for “Querelles. Jahrbuch für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung” (yearbook for interdisciplinary women and gender studies)
October 1990 – March 1991
Sabbatical/archival research in Florence and Venice
1988
Offer of a professorship for Romance Studies (French and Italian Literature) at Freie Universität Berlin
1986-1987
Substituting for professorships at the University of Trier and at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
1986
Non-tenured professorship (6 years fixed term) at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1985
Habilitation for French philology at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1982
Study-leave in Perugia
1978
Received PhD at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1975-1988
Assistant lecturer at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1975
State exam in German and French Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg
1972
Maîtrise in comparative literature at the Université Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux
1968-1975
Studied French/Italian literature, German and comparative literature in Paris, Freiburg, Hamburg, Perugia and Bordeaux
