• Head of the Department LIST (Linguistics and Literary Studies)
• Member of the FWO WOG ENAG (European Neo-Avant-Garde)
• International scientific partner of the Interuniversitärer Forschungsverbund Elfriede Jelinek: https://www.ifvjelinek.at  
• VUB representative in the board of Vlaams Talenplatform
  
• Co-chair of the alliance research group THALIA
• Co-editor of the journal Germanistische Mitteilungen (Winter Verlag)
• Board member of the VAL (Vlaamse Vereniging voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap) and the ManaMa Literatuurwetenschap
• Reviewer for the Flemish advisory board for translations into Dutch, Literatuur Vlaanderen, www.literatuurvlaanderen.be 

Friederike Mayröcker: generic hybridity; voicing; neo-avant-garde poetics; intermedial poetics

Elfriede Jelinek: innovative dramatic forms; literature and drama as intervention in contemporary crises; cultural transfer of her works (through translations, stagings etc.); 'internal multilingualism'

Radio plays in German since the 1960s (e.g. Ludwig Harig, Jandl & Mayröcker, George Tabori, Gerhard Rühm)

Contemporary drama and theatre (choric traditions, multilingualism, intermedial scenography; Jelinek; Tabori; Susanne Kennedy)