ACADEMIC POSTS AND ACTIVITIES
Local: Leuphana University Lüneburg
Member of the Board of Trustees (Stiftungsrat) of Leuphana University, the highest body of university governance (2018-2025)
Member of the Senate (2010-2025)
Dean of Studies for Liberal Education in the Leuphana BA (2018-2025)
Head of Department, Institute of English Studies (serving on a two-year on/two-year off rotation, 2004–2025)
Member of the Commission for the Investigation of Scientific Misconduct (2022-2028)
National: Germany
Vertrauensdozentin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Mentor for recipients of scholarships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for the academically gifted) (2016-2025)
International
External Examiner for the following degree courses
- M.A. in Children’s Literature at the University of Roehampton, England (1999- 2003)
- M.Phil. in Children’s Literature at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2012-2015)
- M.A. in Irish-German Studies, Limerick University, Ireland (2017-2021)
External reviewer in academic promotion procedures at universities in
- Australia
- Canada
- Germany
- Ireland
- Switzerland
- UK
- USA
External member of PhD examination boards at
- Antwerp University (Belgium)
- Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest (Hungary)
- Leipzig University (Germany)
- Roehampton University (England)
- Monash University (Australia)
- Rennes University (France)
- York University (England)
SERVICE ON ACADEMIC BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
Board of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) (2001-2005) (Vice-President 2003-2005)
Advisory Board for the series Irish-German Studies (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier) (2004- )
Editorial Review Board of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature (2005-2014)
Advisory Board of International Research in Children’s Literature (Edinburgh University Press) (2007-2022)
Scientific committee of Strenæ. Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance (2010- )
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Publications Advisory Board (2011-2014)
Academic Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media (SIKJM) (2011-2021)
Editorial Review Board for the online journal Children’s Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal )(2011- )
Editorial board responsible for the redesign and relaunch of the Yearbook of the German Society for Children’s Literature Research (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (GKJF)) as an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal (2015); inaugural coeditor (2016-2024)
IRSCL Book Awards Review Committee (2017-2025)
Advisory Board of the Yearbook of the German Society for Children’s Literature Research (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (GKJF)) (2025-)
Editorial Board for the series Studia Imagologica (De Gruyter-Brill) (2025-)
SERVICE ON PUBLIC BODIES AND JURIES
Board of the Literaturbüro Lüneburg (“literature house” in Lüneburg which organises readings, activities, grants etc.) (2013-2025)
Jury for the James Krüss Prize for international Children’s Literature, administered by the International Youth Library (IYL), Munich (2013-2019)
Jury (Chairperson) for the German state prize for the life’s work of a translator of children’s literature (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Sonderpreis Übersetzer:in) 1994, 1999 and 2005