1995: Cand. phil. degree in Comparative Literature, Aarhus University

1995 - 1996: Scholarship Student, AU

1996 - 2000: PhD Student, AU

June 1998 - June 1999: Maternity leave

2001: PhD degree in Comparative Literature, AU

August 2001 - May 2006: Assistant Professor in Rhetoric, Centre for Rhetoric, Department of Aesthetic Studies, AU

July 2002 - July 2003: Maternity leave

August 2006 -  Associate Professor in Rhetoric, Centre for Rhetoric, Department Aesthetic Studies, AU

2006 - 2010: Leader of Centre for Rhetoric, Department of Aesthetic Studies, AU

2008 - 2011: Secondary supervisor of business PhD student Kirsten Bonde Sørensen, Kolding School of Design

2009 - Secondary supervisor of PhD student Mads Einar Nielsen, AU

2010 - Supervisor of PhD student Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen, AU

1995: Seierskilde’s grant, 40.000 kr.

1995 - 1996: Aarhus University scholarship

1. - 28.2. 1998: Ludvig Preetzmann-Aggerholm og hustrus stiftelse, resident grant in Paris

12. 10. 2004: UBVA- grant from Akademikernes Centralorganisation for the book Litteraturens tone, 15.000 kr.

1992- 1995: Editor of the journal Passage – tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik

1994 - 95: Committee member of Foreningen af Danske Kulturtidsskrifter

2006 - 2010: Editor of the journal Rhetorica Scandinavica – tidsskrift for skandinavisk retorikforskning

2007 - 2009: Member of the research network Retorisk medborgerskab.

2010 - National editor of Rhetorica Scandinavica

2011- Vice President of Rhetoric Society of Europe

2011- Academic board member of the conference Rhetoric in Society IV, University of Copenhagen