| From April 2013 | Professor of English Literature ("Berufung, W3-Professur für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft“), TU Braunschweig. |
| Spring 2010 | Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Leeds, UK. |
| March 2007 | Offered Chair of English Literature ("Berufung, W3-Professur für Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft"), TU Chemnitz (declined). |
| October 2006 to March 2013 | Professor of English Literature ("Berufung, W2-Professur für Anglistik/Literaturwissenschaft"), Siegen University. |
| 1997 - 2005 | Visiting Professor, Universities of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Madison; Vienna, Austria; Interim Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main; TU Chemnitz, Germany. |
| June 2003 | "Habilitation" completed. Received "venia legendi" in "Englische und amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften" for peer-reviewed post-doctoral dissertation on metaphors of industrialization and the 19th century novel. |
| January 1991 - Summer 2005 | Lecturer ("Wiss. Mitarbeiter", "Wiss. Assistent") at the Department of English and American Literature, University of Giessen, Germany. |
| July - August 1994 | Fulbright scholar on the American Studies Summer Course, New York University. |
| June 1994 | PhD ("Dr. phil., Fach: Anglistik") on TV playwright and screenwriter Dennis Potter, completed grade: "summa cum laude", University of Giessen, Germany. |