Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2018 Research Position and Lecturer, Project: Critical Approaches to Collective Violence in Literatures and Art from Angola, Latin America and the Caribbean, Institut für Romanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Verena Dolle, Giessen, Germany
• September 2014-2017 Research Position and Lecturer, Literatures of Equatorial Guinea, Institut für Romanistik, Lehrstuhl  Prof. Dr. Anne Begenath-Neuschäfer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• September 2011-2014. Project Director and Research Position: En Route through the New Atlantic History. Literature from Africa and Latin America, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and DFG.

• 2004-2010. Guest Lectures, Seminar for African Sciences, IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• 2000 – 2002. Guest Lectures, Latin America Institute, Free University Berlin.
• 1998 – 2008. Research Affiliate Latin American Studies Center (LASC), University of Maryland at College Park.

• 1990-1998. Associate Professor (tenured) for Caribbean Literatures in Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Maryland at College Park.
• 1986 Ph.D. Literatures of Latin America, the French Caribbean, and Sociology
• 1985-1990. Associate Professor Latin American Literatures, Latin America Institute, Free University Berlin.
1982-1985. Research Grant, Volkswagen Stiftung Hannover, Latin America Institute, Free University Berlin.
• 1976-1979. Assistant Professor for Latin American Literatures at Leiden University.
• 1974-1976 Study of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
• 1973 Magister Artium, Free University Berlin
• 1971-1974 Teaching Assistant Latin American Literatures, Latin America Institute, Free University Berlin.