• Esotericism, new religious movements focusing on witches and matriarchy
• Historical images with a focus on Arthuriana, prehistoric fiction and historical novels
• Human-animal Studies

• 2004–2010: PhD project supervised by Prof. Dr. I. Tomkowiak: The speech of matriarchy. The historical use of arguments
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• 2004–2006: Postgraduate studies in Information and Documentation at the Fachhochschule Chur
• 1996–2003: Studies in Volkskunde/Folklore, European Popular Literature and German Studies at the University of Zurich. (Master’s thesis supervised by Ingrid Tomkowiak: Female Figures in Contemporary Arthuriana)
• 1996: Baccalaureate, Kantonsschule Riesbach, Zürich

• From 04/2012: Head of the library of Popular Culture Studies
• 2009–2012: Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Popular Culture Studies
• 2004–2009: Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Popular Literature and Media (formerly European Popular Literature)
• From 2000: Employee of the Library Männedorf
• Feb. 2000: Internship at the Schweizerischen Jugendbuch Institut, today the Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM)

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (SGV)
• Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung
• FemWiss, Verein feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz
• Verein Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv
• Interessengruppe wissenschaftliche BibliothekarInnen der Schweiz [Interest Group of Academic Librarians in Switzerland]
• Arbeitsgruppe Informationskompetenz [Working Group on Information Literacy]

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