Academic employment (selection):
2008-10: Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Basel, Switzerland
1993-1994, 1997-2000, 2001-2005: Head of German Departments, Universities of Tubingen, Germany, Basel, Zurich, Switzerland
1994-present: Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Zurich and University of Basel
1992-1994: Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tubingen
1980-1992: Assistent, Oberassistent, University of Zurich, Swiss National Science Foundation
Degrees:
1992: Habilitation, Scandinavian Studies, University of Zurich
1983: PhD, Scandinavian Studies, University of Zurich
Commissions of trust (selection):
2007-present: Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Member of Board
2006-present: National Centre of Competence in Research 'Mediality', funded by SNFS, University of Zurich, Member of Board
Fields of specialisation:
Old Norse-Icelandic literature, especially Icelandic sagas, Prose Edda, late medieval and early modern Scandinavian literatures, romances, chapbooks, Icelandic literature, literary historiography, rhetoric, memory studies, cartography
Recent book-publications:
co-ed. with S. Kramarz-Bein:
Rittersagas – Übersetzung, Überlieferung, Transmission (2014); co-ed. with A.K. Richter:
Text – Reihe – Transmission. Unfestigkeit als Phänomen skandinavischer Erzählprosa 1500-1800 (2012);
ed.:
Balladen-Stimmen. Vokalität als theoretisches und historisches Phänomen der skandinavischen Balladentradition (2012)
Island – Eine Literaturgeschichte (2011)