Vita

• Studies in comparative literature and German philology in Vienna and Berlin.
• 2001: Doctoral thesis on the subject „Literary Life in Melk. A monastery in cul-tural transition in the 18th century.“
• 2002 – 2009: Staff member of the Austrian Science Fund project “The Book Market of the Habsburg Monarchy“
• Since 2009: Academic staff member for the Book Studies academic pro-gramme, LMU Munich
• 2015– 2016: Staff member for one study year of the work group „On the pro-duction and distribution of erotic-pornographic reading material in the Age of Enlightenment" at the Center for Advanced Studies of the LMU Munich
• 2016: Habilitation at the LMU Munich on the subject „The Business of Fornica-tion. The publishing houses and the fight against pornography in the Kaiser-reich and the Weimar Republic“

Research Focuses

• Book and Publishing History of Austria and the Habsburg Monarchy
• Erotic-pornographic literature and its publication history
• Book trade history of the German Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic
• Publishing history of the postwar period
• Austrian literature history of the 18th and 19th century

Functions

• Corresponding member of the Historical Commission of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association
• Board member of the Society for Book Research in Austria
• Board member of the Austrian Society for Research on the 18th Century