honors and awards

• Edited Book Award 2017 for "Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde" (ed. with Elina Druker, John Benjamins, 2015), awarded by the International Research Society for Children's Literature
  
  
• Edited Book Award 2027 for "Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde" (ed. with Elina Druker, John Benjamins, 2015), awarded by the Children's Literature Association
  
  
• Call to a Chair for German literature and didactics at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy in 2014
  
  
• Guest professorship for children's literature, University of Vienna, Winter 2010/2011
  
  
• Guest professorship in memory of Astrid Lindgren, University of Växjö, Sweden, spring and summer 2010; funded by Linnaeus University of Växjö/Kalmar, Astrid Lindgren Society, Astrid Lindgren Research Center in Näs, and "Rääda Barnen".
  
  
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