Magister Artium in English Studies, Computational Linguistics and Italian Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Kent at Canterbury
PhD Thesis: "As if a building was being constructed" - Studien zur Rolle der Geschichte in den Romanen Adam Thorpes
PhD Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
Research associate in the DFG project (German Research Foundation) Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (concluded)
International research visits: Paris/Sorbonne, France; Lancaster University, UK; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Salzburg/Austria