PhD Japanese Studies, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Studies in Japanese Studies, German Literature, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies; Master's degree in Japanese Studies (Major) and German Literature (Second Major), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

BA (Zwischenprüfung), in Japanese Studies (Major) and Modern Germany Literature (Second Major), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Junior Professor for Japanese Literature, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Visiting Researcher, Department of Literature, University of Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Researcher, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, USA

Research Assistant in Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Researcher and Editor, Asahi Newspaper, DahlemerPublishing, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant:

Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan

Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Rutgers University, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany

JaDe Foundation grant, Germany

Scholarship for overseas study (Tamagawa Gakuen Kotobu), Japan

Conference co-organizer, Self-Narratives in Japanese Studies: Literature and History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Work-group leader, “Contemporary Japanese Literature,” Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

DFG-research group member “Self-narratives in Transnational Perspective”, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

Japanese Society for German Studies (JGG)

German-Japanese Society (Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft) (DJG)

Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)

2017. Participation in the Tateshina Symposium for German Studies in Tokyo: Surrealismus in Unica Zürns Literatur (Surrealism in Unica Zürn's Literature)

2017. Guest lecture at the Chūō University in Tokyo, Invitation by Prof. Dr. Hane Reika

December 8th, 2017. “Technological Transformations of Intimacy in Japan and their Implications for Emotional AI Research”, International Workshop AI LOVE YOU, University of Potsdam, Germany

November 29th, 2017. „Emotionale Maschinen: Auf dem Weg zu einer Affektgeschichte der Technologie in Japan" (Emotional Machines: Towards an affective history of technology in Japan), Euskirchener Gespräche: „Der Neue Mensch - Soziale Emotionen und Empathie in digitaler Welt" (The new human being - social emotions and empathy in the digital world), Euskirchen, Germany.

September 1st 2017. „Uneasiness with the Present Time: Nostalgia in Japanese Literature of the Heisei Period",15th EAJS International Conference 2017, Panel „Reconstructing the Past" (S3a_15), Lisbon, Portugal.

June 20th 2017. „Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan", Hauptstadtkongress 2017 Medizin und Gesundheit, Panel „Pflege innovativ: Wie Sensorik, Robotik und das Internet die Pflege verändern" (Innovative care: How sensors, robots and the internet change the face of medical care), Berlin, Germany.

2016. "The Impact of Emoticons on (Japanese) Literature,” Association of Japanese Literary Studies Conference 2016, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

2016. „Forms and Functions of Kaomoji in Japanese Literature,” 2nd European Association Studies Conference, Kōbe, Japan.

2016. Organization and moderation of the international conference "Emoticons, Emoji and Kaomoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age," Freie Universität Berlin.

2015. “Heterotopian Spaces in Contemporary Japanese Literature,” Workshop, Exploring Space in Japanese Literature, Freie Universität Berlin.

2014. “Auto-mutilation and Amok: Dimensions of Violence in Contemporary Japanese Literature,” New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Asia Transforming: Old Values and New Presences to Further our Understanding of how Ongoing Economic, Social and Political Transformations, New York.

2014. “Das Spiel mit literarischen Authentizitätskonventionen in der apanischen Gegenwartsliteratur (Playing with Conventions of Authenticity in Contemporary Japanese Literature),” Japan-Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, within the “Forum für literaturwissenschaftliche Japanforschung” (Forum for Literary Research in Japanese Studies).

2014. “Dimensionen von Gewalt in der zeitgenössischen Japanischen Literatur (Dimensions of Violence in Japanese Literature),” Institute of Japanese Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

2013. “Graduate Education at Freie Universität Berlin,” Fifth Forum for the Euro-Japan Academic Networking for Humanities Project: Europe-East Asia Partnership in Action, Venice.

2012. “Playing with Authenticity: Functions and Effects of Contemporary Shishōsetsu,” Workshop, “Self-Narratives in Japanese Studies – Literature and History,” Freie Universität Berlin.

2011. “Nihon ni okeru kūrunesu (The Concept of Coolness in Japan),” Workshop, “Bunka no eikkyō to honyaku (Cultural Influence and Translation),” Border-Crossing of Culture and Translation, Europa-Center Nagoya University, Freiburg.

2010. “Iki: A Japanese Concept of Coolness,” Conference, Coolness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, FreieUniversität Berlin/Languages of Emotion.

2010. “Die Figur des sensei in der Japanischen Literatur (The ‘Sensei’ Figure in Japanese Literature),”Lecture Series, “Master and Pupils: Tradition – Transfer – Transformation, Freie Universität Berlin.

2010. “Trostlose Perspektiven? Sex, Drogen und (Auto-)aggression in der Literatur japanischer Jungautorinnen (Desolate Perspectives? Sex, Drugs and Auto-Aggression in Literature of Young Female Authors),” Mori Ōgai Memorial, Berlin.

2010. “Zum Transfer von Gattungskonzepten (The Transfer of Genre Concepts),” Workshop, “Travel: Human Beings and Concepts in Motion,” Freie Universität Berlin.

2009. “Ruling the Body: Food and Self-Destruction in Kanehara Hitomi's literature,” Workshop, “Food and Gender,” Nagoya University/Freie Universität Berlin.

2009. “Sex, Drugs and Violence? Kanehara Hitomi’s Bad Girls,” Japan Society for the Promotion of Science-Club, Berlin.

2009. “Die Affinität des Internets zurjapanischen Gegenwartsliteratur (The Affinity of the Internet for Contemporary Japanese Literature),” 14. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag at Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg.

2009. “Bad girls Die Diskursivierung von Identitätskrisen in aktueller Japanischer Literatur (Bad girls? Discourses of Identity Crises in Recent Japanese Literature),” Workshop, “Zwischenbestimmungen von Geschlecht und Identität jenseits der Fixierbarkeit” (Between Gender and Identity beyond Fixibility), Freie Universität Berlin.

2009. “Kunstgriffe der Authentizität im zeitgenössischen shishōsetsu (Artifices of Authenticity in Contemporary Shishōsetsu),” Institute of Japanese Studies, Ruprecht Karls Universität, Heidelberg.

PhD courses: Research Design for Cultural Studies and Literary Studies (with Cordula Lemke); Research Colloquium

MA courses: Nostalgia/natsukashisa in Japanese Culture and Literature,Robots and other Emotional Machines in Japan; Emoji, Emoticons and Kaiomoji in Japanese Literature, Culture and Communication; The Literary Market in Japan; Heterotopia and Non-Places in Japanese Literature; Theories and Discourses in Cultural Studies/Sociology and Literary Studies

BA courses: Emotional Management: Cultural and Literary Shaping of Emotions; Facets of “Coolness” in Japanese Culture and Literature; Emotions in Japanese Literature and Culture; Sex, Drugs and Violence? – Recent Literature of Japanese Female Writers; Introduction to Japanese Culture and Literature (premodern to present); Introduction to Japanese Cultural and Literary History (premodern to present)