General Research Interests
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Current Book Projects
Murderous Mothers: Postmodern Medea-Figures and Feminist Politics
Winner of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America
Melodramatic Violence: Alternative Family Structures and Solidarity in German Film
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”
“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
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
Encountering Soviet Soldiers: Women’s Changing Narratives of the Sexual Violence of the Immediate Postwar Period
Advisor: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College