She also worked as an assistant professor in the Department of German Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and is especially interested in the intersection of literary studies and linguistics. Her teaching areas include literary/filmic discourse analysis, cognitive narratology, and literary/media semiotics. Her two current research projects deal with the cognitive linguistic foundation of narrative multiperspectivity and intersemiotic/multimodal strategies in historical illustrated magazines. She is also a domain agent for "Text/Image Relations" at the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media.