Member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung | 2024- |
Founder of the Network for European Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition | 2024- |
Member of the Advisory Board of New Benjamin Studies | 2021- |
Member of the Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem | 2019- |
Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal "Paradosso" | 2019- |
Member of the Scientific Council of the Museum Kazerne Dossin | 2019- |
Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Jewish Studies | 2018- |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg" | 2017- |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Open Cultural Studies" | 2016- |
Member of the Editorial Board of "Jewish Quarterly Review" | 2017- |
Member of the Advisory Board of "Jewish Studies Quarterly" | 2017- |
Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Germanica | 2016- |
Member of the Advisory Board of the book series "Jüdische Geschichte, Religion und Kultur" | 2016- |
Member of the Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook | 2016- |
Member of the Advisory Board of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, Philadelphia | 2016- |
Member of the Advisory Board of DiGeSt, Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies | 2016- |
| Editor of the book series "Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts", De Gruyter | 2013- |
| Editor of the Yearbook of the Society for European-Jewish Literature (with A. Bodenheimer) | 2013- |
| Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fakultät für Philologie und Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Wien | 2013- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin - ZfL Berlin | 2010- |
| Member of the FWO Commission "Literatuur en Kunst" | 2010-2015 |
| President of the Scientific Board for the Martin Buber Werkausgabe | 2010- |
| Member of the Executive Board of the Society for European-Jewish Literature | 2009- |
| Member of the Executive Board of the International Walter Benjamin Society | 2007-2015 |
| Editor of arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies | 2008- |
| Member of the Editorial Board of Benjamin-Studien | 2009- |
| Member of the Editorial Board of KulturPoetik | 2005- |
| Treasurer of the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) | 2000-2017 |
| Director of the Project “Modernism” in the ICLA Series “History of the European Literatures” (with Astradur Eysteinsson) | 2007- |
| Member of the Executive Board of the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp (M HKA) | 2006- |
| Member of the Board of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), University of Antwerp | 2005- |
| Member of the Board of the Center for Active Pluralism Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp | 2004-2012 |