Education
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Doctor of Philosophy
Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, May 2017
Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Certificate in Feminist Studies
Duke University
Bachelor of Arts
Dartmouth College, June 2011
summa cum laude, Major in German Studies, Minors in History and English
Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, May 2017
Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Certificate in Feminist Studies
Duke University
Bachelor of Arts
Dartmouth College, June 2011
summa cum laude, Major in German Studies, Minors in History and English
Monographs
Murderous Mothers: Late Twentieth-Century Medea Figures and Feminism
Forthcoming in 2022 as the winner of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America
Melodramatic Violence: Alternative Family Structures and Solidarity in German Film (in progress)
Forthcoming in 2022 as the winner of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America
Melodramatic Violence: Alternative Family Structures and Solidarity in German Film (in progress)
Other Publications (selected)
“Threatening the Maternal Body: Annegret Soltau’s Performances of Pregnancy” Under review for a special issue of Body and Society
“A Forcible Return to the Womb: Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust and the Melodramatic Mode” The German Quarterly. 91.2 (Spring 2018): 108-122.
“Divided Germany, Divided Text: Integrating Comics into the Beginning L2 Classroom”
Co-authored with Matthew Hambro
andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies 5/6 (2016-2017): 147-156.
“Subverting Injurious Language: How Ilse Aichinger’s Narratological Strategies Liberate the Protagonist of ‘Spiegelgeschichte’”
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 52.3 (September 2016): 308-325.
Blog Post on German Gender Studies: https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/ddgc-blog/why-do-german-gender-studies-matter-now
“A Forcible Return to the Womb: Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust and the Melodramatic Mode” The German Quarterly. 91.2 (Spring 2018): 108-122.
“Divided Germany, Divided Text: Integrating Comics into the Beginning L2 Classroom”
Co-authored with Matthew Hambro
andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies 5/6 (2016-2017): 147-156.
“Subverting Injurious Language: How Ilse Aichinger’s Narratological Strategies Liberate the Protagonist of ‘Spiegelgeschichte’”
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 52.3 (September 2016): 308-325.
Blog Post on German Gender Studies: https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/ddgc-blog/why-do-german-gender-studies-matter-now
Selected Conference Presentations
“How to Be a Good Militant and Mother: Family in Margarethe von Trotta’s Die bleierne Zeit”
German Studies Association Annual Conference
Indianapolis, IN USA (September 2021)
“Improving the Ankommen App: A Digital Pedagogy Project” (Poster)
Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference
Sewanee, TN, USA/ online (October 2020)
“Diversity and Inclusion in the German Curriculum: Gender and Sexuality”
ACTFL Annual Convention
Washington DC, USA (November 2020)
“Gender Neutral Language and TA Training”
Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum Conference
Northfield, MN, USA (March 2019)
“Coming Together, Violently: Reunification in Dea Loher’s Manhattan Medea”
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 2017)
“The Violence of Affect: Abuse That Comes From Within in R.W. Fassbinder’s Martha”
Modern Languages Association Annual Convention
Philadelphia, PA, USA ( January 2017)
“Scratching Your “I”s Out: Violence and Subjectivity in Franz Kafka and Ilse Aichinger”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting
Durham, NC, USA (November 2015)
“Divided Germany, Divided Text: Integrating Comics into the Beginning L2 Classroom”
German Studies Association Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C., USA (October 2015)
“Intruding on the Fairy Tale: Female Storytelling and the Framing of Rape in Helma Sanders Brahms’s Deutschland, bleiche Mutter (1980)”
German Studies Association Annual Meeting
Denver, CO, USA (October 2013)
German Studies Association Annual Conference
Indianapolis, IN USA (September 2021)
“Improving the Ankommen App: A Digital Pedagogy Project” (Poster)
Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference
Sewanee, TN, USA/ online (October 2020)
“Diversity and Inclusion in the German Curriculum: Gender and Sexuality”
ACTFL Annual Convention
Washington DC, USA (November 2020)
“Gender Neutral Language and TA Training”
Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum Conference
Northfield, MN, USA (March 2019)
“Coming Together, Violently: Reunification in Dea Loher’s Manhattan Medea”
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 2017)
“The Violence of Affect: Abuse That Comes From Within in R.W. Fassbinder’s Martha”
Modern Languages Association Annual Convention
Philadelphia, PA, USA ( January 2017)
“Scratching Your “I”s Out: Violence and Subjectivity in Franz Kafka and Ilse Aichinger”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting
Durham, NC, USA (November 2015)
“Divided Germany, Divided Text: Integrating Comics into the Beginning L2 Classroom”
German Studies Association Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C., USA (October 2015)
“Intruding on the Fairy Tale: Female Storytelling and the Framing of Rape in Helma Sanders Brahms’s Deutschland, bleiche Mutter (1980)”
German Studies Association Annual Meeting
Denver, CO, USA (October 2013)
