After studying English, French and German at the Universities of Saarbruecken (Germany), Metz (France), and Cardiff (Wales), she completed her PhD in English Literature on The Pilgrim as a Child: Concepts of Play, Language and Salvation in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books in July 2009. She recently submitted her second book on Stages of the Soul in Early Modern Poetry: William Shakespeare and John Donne (Habilitationsschrift; accepted for publication by Manchester University Press).