| 1988 | Filosofie Kandidatsexamen (BA) in English Literature and Linguistics, French, and Spanish, 1988, University of Lund. |
| 1993 | Lizentiat Philosophiae (MA) in English Literature and Linguistics, Scandinavian Literature and Communication, 1993, University of Zurich. |
| 1998 | Doctorate, University of Zurich, doctoral thesis “To Join, to Fit, and to Make: The Creative Craft of Margaret Atwood’s Fiction.” |
| 2008 | Habilitation – Privatdozentin for English and American Literature at the University of Zurich, habilitation thesis “Diagrams in Narrative: Performative Strategies in Texts.” |
| 2014 | Titularprofessorin for English and American Literature |