University of Fribourg
2024
Member of the COARA working group
2023 – 2024
Member of the planning and search committee for a professorship in American Literature
2023 – 2024
Member of the planning and search committees for the position of an MER (50%) in Comparative Literature
2021 – 2022
Member of the planning and search committees for a professorship in Early Modern Literature
2022 –
Member of the advisory board of the “Centre de langues”
2021
Member of the search committee for a lecturer in “Fachdidaktik”
August 2021 – Feb 2025
Director of the Institute of Comparative Literature and co-ordinator of the Swiss PhD programme in Comparative Literature
2021
Member of the “Habiliationskommission” Dr. Barbara Lüthi
2021
Member of the “Strukturkommission” for an MER in Modern History
2020 –
Co-ordinator of the “BASI” English study programme
2020
Member of the “Strukturkommission Erziehungswissenschaften”
Referee and Community Work
2022 – 2023
Mentor for the Swiss Young Academy
2022 –
Board member of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English, SAUTE and SAGW delegate
2020 – 2024
Member of the evaluation board of the “doc.ch” programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation
2020 –
Member of the evaluation board of the “Ambizione” programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation
2012 – 2020
Board member of the Swiss Association of North American Studies (SANAS): Secretary and Webmaster
2009 –
Assessment work for the Swiss Study Foundation (Schweizerische Studienstiftung)
2007 – 2020
Matura-Expert English, canton of Bern
Referee for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Paris Institute for Advanced Studies
Since 2010: Peer Reviewing for Manchester University Press, SPELL, Oxford University Press (Contemporary Women’s Writing and LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities), Colloquium Helveticum
Organization of Conferences and Workshops at the University of Fribourg
02/2025
Co-organization of a doctoral workshop (CUSO): Mothers and Their Others, with Thomas Austenfeld
04/2024
Co-organization of a doctoral workshop “La literature après le postmodernisme”, University of Fribourg, with Jole Fontanesi
09/2023
Co-organization of the international conference: “Towards a new humanity, and beyond – Vers une nouvelle humanité, et au-delà – Vom neuen Menschen zum künstlichen Leben”, University of Fribourg, with Sabine Haupt and Oliver Krüger
05/2023
Co-organization of the Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English, “Trust and Uncertainty in Linguistics and Literary Studies”, University of Fribourg, Steve Oswald and Kilian Schindler
10/2022
Co-organization of the PhD-Workshop “Across the Atlantic”, at the University of Fribourg, with Enit Steiner
12/2021
Co-organization of doctoral workshop for the doctoral programme in comparative literature, online, with Evelyn Dueck and Sandro Zanetti
06/2021
Co-organization of PhD-Workshop “Working with Poetry”, online, with Gabriele Rippl