Extra-university activities and memberships
| Member of the Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem | 2019- |
| Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal "Paradosso" | 2019- |
| Member of the Scientific Council of the Museum Kazerne Dossin | 2019- |
| Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Jewish Studies | 2018- |
| Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg" | 2017- |
| Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Open Cultural Studies" | 2016- |
| Member of the Editorial Board of "Jewish Quarterly Review" | 2017- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of "Jewish Studies Quarterly" | 2017- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Germanica | 2016- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the book series "Jüdische Geschichte, Religion und Kultur" | 2016- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook | 2016- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, Philadelphia | 2016- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of DiGeSt, Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies | 2016- |
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Editor of the book series "Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts", De Gruyter |
2013- |
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Editor of the Yearbook of the Society for European-Jewish Literature (with A. Bodenheimer) |
2013- |
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fakultät für Philologie und Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Wien |
2013- |
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Member of the Advisory Board of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin - ZfL Berlin |
2010- |
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Member of the FWO Commission "Literatuur en Kunst" |
2010-2015 |
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President of the Scientific Board for the Martin Buber Werkausgabe |
2010- |
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Member of the Executive Board of the Society for European-Jewish Literature |
2009- |
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Member of the Executive Board of the International Walter Benjamin Society |
2007-2015 |
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Editor of arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies |
2008- |
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Member of the Editorial Board of Benjamin-Studien |
2009- |
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Member of the Editorial Board of KulturPoetik |
2005- |
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Treasurer of the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) |
2000-2017 |
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Director of the Project “Modernism” in the ICLA Series “History of the European Literatures” (with Astradur Eysteinsson) |
2007- |
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Member of the Executive Board of the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp (M HKA) |
2006- |
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Member of the Board of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), University of Antwerp |
2005- |
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Member of the Board of the Center for Active Pluralism Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp |
2004-2012 |