PhD, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA  University Lecturer for Languages (German as a Foreign Language, English and French), Competence Centre of the University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Lemgo, Germany (2010-12) Director, Information Centre (IC) Kiev of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Kiev, Ukraine, and DAAD Lecturer, National Taras Shevshenko University Kiev, Institute of Philology, Department of Translation Studies, Kiev, Ukraine (2007-10) DAAD Lecturer, National Meshnikov University Odessa, Institute of Romanic and Germanic Philologies, German Department, Odessa, Ukraine (2005-07) Director, International Office, and Vice-Director, Department of Student Affairs, University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Lemgo, Germany (1994-2005) Lecturer for German Studies, Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (1992-94) Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (1991-94)

International University Relations; Academic Exchange; Intercultural Communication; Comparative European Cultural Studies and German as a Foreign Language