CURRENT POSITION

University Professor for the History and Theory of Biography,
University of Vienna, Department of European and Comparative
Literature and Language Studies
Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory
of Biography, Vienna
Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft; University of Vienna; 
University of Cambridge; Austrian National Library; 
Vienna City Library

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

 1997-2004   
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1990-1993   
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Austrian National Library: Researcher
University of Vienna: Lecturer in the Department of German
German Literature Archive/Schiller National Museum, Marbach:
Researcher in the Department of Manuscripts
German Historical Institute, London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
(Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany)
University of Graz: Researcher at the Research and Documentation 
Centre for Austrian Philosophy

 VISITING APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Harvard University/Houghton Library: Research Fellow (Sept./Oct.)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Visiting Professor (Spring Quarter)
Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy: Resident Fellow (Spring)
Casa do Artista in Machico, Madeira: Writer-in-Residence (August/Sept.)
Churchill College, Cambridge (UK): By-Fellow (Lent term)
St. Petersburg State University, Russia; Department of German,
Visiting Lecturer (Autumn)
German Historical Institute, London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
(Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany)
Doctoral Fellowship of the Pro Scientia Foundation, Austria

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

Literature of the late 18th - 21st Centuries 
Viennese Modernism (interdisciplinary)
Theory of Biography
History of Modern Biography
History of Psychoanalysis
Interrelationships between Literature and Philosophy
Memorial Culture, Palaeography and Archives

 RESEARCH PROJECTS

Oskar Pastior – 'The distinctive is good'. Components of a Biography 
(Austrian Science Fund)
Mira Lobe: Doyenne of Austrian Children's and Young People's
Literature (Austrian Science Fund)
Foundation of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the
History and Theory of Biography
Manès Sperber: The Analysis of Tyranny
(Manès Sperber Society / Austrian National Library)
Josef Paneth: Between Physiology, Psychology, and Philosophy
(Austrian Science Fund)
Heinz Politzer: Sigmund Freud and Tragedy
(Jubilee Fund of the City of Vienna)
Christian von Ehrenfels: Correspondence
(Austrian Science Fund)

  LITERARY EXHIBITIONS

Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian State Archives)
Mechtilde Lichnowsky (German Literature Archive, Marbach)
Foyer exhibitions on Werner Bergengruen, Paul Celan,
Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig (German Literature Archive, Marbach)

COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES  

Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies: Member of 
the Academic Advisory Board
International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Europe: 
Founding Member and Member of the Executive Board
Manès Sperber Society, Vice President
International Rilke Society, Member of the Executive Board
International Rilke Society, Member of the Academic Advisory Board
Christine Lavant Society: Founding Member and Member of the
Academic Board

FURTHER ACTIVITIES

Juror, Manès Sperber Prize
University representative on the interministerial selection commission for 
Austrian lectors at international universities
Consultant to the Foreign Ministry for Austrian holdings at university
libraries in Eastern and Central Europe
Juror, Austrian State Prize for Science and Research Journalism
Palaeographic expert for the Dorotheum auction house
Member of the working committee for critical editions in philosophy, Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Society of Philosophy)
Honorary expert for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

FURTHER INTERESTS: PIANOFORTE

Private studies with Joo Ann Koh (University of Music and Dramatic
Arts, Vienna)
Masterclasses with Anatol Ugorsky (Detmold), Yves Henry (Paris),
Yoheved Kaplinsky (New York) and Tamás Ungár (Fort Worth), and
John Bloomfield (New York)