Employment

• Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin
• Professor of German and Film Studies, with adjunct appointment in History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-2004
• Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1992-95
• Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1988-92
• Research Fellow, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, 1986-88 

Education

• PhD in German Literature, University of Hannover, 1994
• MA in German Literature and Social Sciences, University of Hannover, 1982
• BA (equivalent) in Architecture, University of Hannover, Germany, 1977 

Major Fellowships and Awards

• Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CASVA), Visiting Senior Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, residency delayed to 2021
• Wolfsonian-Florida Atlantic University Fellowship, Miami Beach, 2016
• EURIAS Senior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015-16
• DAAD Faculty Research Visit Award, 2012
• National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2010-1
• Rice University Humanities Research Center Fellowship, 2010
• DAAD Study Visit Grant, 2008 (also in 2003, 1999, 1996, 1993)
• Fulbright German Studies Seminar, 2004
• Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center Residency, 2004
• NEH Fellowship, 2003-4
• Obermann Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1992
• NEH Summer Stipend, 1991
• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1987-88
• J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1986-87
• DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1983