From 1998 to 2013 he was a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature (Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), and since 2003 he was on the faculty of the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Od 1998. do 2013. bio je profesor na frankfurtskom sveučilištu na institutu opće i komparativne književnosti (Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), a od 2003. profesor je na European Graduate School u Saas-Feeu, u Švicarskoj.