Margit Dahm is a Junior Professor for German Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages at the Department of German Studies, Kiel University (present). She studied German, History, and Public Law at Kiel University. From 2013-2016, she was a PhD scholar in the DFG Graduate College “Literarische Form. Geschichte und Kultur ästhetischer Modellbildung“ at WWU Münster. She completed her PhD in 2017 at WWU Münster and was a DFG-postdoctoral fellow in 2016/17. From 2017-2021, she was a research assistant (postdoc) at the Department of German Studies, Kiel University.