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: Postmodern Medea-Figures and Feminist Politics
Forthcoming in 2021 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 2021 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)
Selected Publications
“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
“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
“Gender Neutral Language and TA Training”
Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum Conference
Northfield, MN, USA (2 March 2019)
“Living Dirty: The Pregnant Body in Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
New York, NY, USA (5 January 2018)
“Coming Together, Violently: Reunification in Dea Loher’s Manhattan Medea”
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (30 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 (7 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 (14 November 2015)
“Divided Germany, Divided Text: Integrating Comics into the Beginning L2 Classroom”
German Studies Association Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C., USA (3 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 (5 October 2013)
Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum Conference
Northfield, MN, USA (2 March 2019)
“Living Dirty: The Pregnant Body in Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
New York, NY, USA (5 January 2018)
“Coming Together, Violently: Reunification in Dea Loher’s Manhattan Medea”
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (30 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 (7 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 (14 November 2015)
“Divided Germany, Divided Text: Integrating Comics into the Beginning L2 Classroom”
German Studies Association Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C., USA (3 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 (5 October 2013)
