General Research Interests

• 20th and 21st Century German and Austrian Literature, Theater, and Film
• Feminist Literature, Theater, and Film
• Queer and Feminist Narrative Theory
• Anti-mimetic Narrative Theory
• Feminist Theories of Language
• Feminist Film Theory
• ​Genre Studies
  

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Current Book Projects

Murderous Mothers: Late Twentieth-Century Medea Figures and Feminism
         Winner of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America
 
Melodramatic Violence: Alternative Family Structures and Solidarity in German Film 

Articles in Progress

“Healing Antigone’s Son: Motherhood and Incarceration in Die bleierne Zeit” (Marianne and Juliane, 1981)” 

“Best Practices for Flipping the Beginning German Classroom Using Grammar Videos”

Graduate Research 

Fulbright Research Project (Sept. 2011-Sept. 2012)
Examined conceptions of Heimat in memoirs detailing the postwar experiences of German-Jewish women
Advisor: Michael Brenner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2011)
Encountering Soviet Soldiers: Women’s Changing Narratives of the Sexual Violence of the Immediate Postwar Period
Advisor: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College