I received my Ph.D. in German Literature with a certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Vanderbilt University in 2018. In the Fall of 2019, I joined the German Section at OU as the Language Program Coordinator. Before joining OU, I worked for a year as a lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University.
Broadly speaking, my research interests focus on 20th-century Austrian and German Jewish literature and culture. My first project traces Joseph Roth’s journalistic writing between 1919 and 1939 to show how he astutely observed the impact of policing throughout Europe on marginalized communities, especially Jews, ethnic minorities, and refugees. In addition, I am also invested in critical feminist pedagogy, the intersection of language and literature in the classroom, and how digital tools impact language learning.
This semester at OU, I am teaching Business German and the Culture of Work, as well as beginning and intermediate German. I am also directing an independent study on German and Austrian cusine. At the end of the semester, I will teach a new "microcourse" (1 credit) on Winter Folklore and Traditions, which explores the history and folklore behind figures like Krampus and other Yuletide traditions. Furthermore, I am the faculty director for the German Club and the German Honors Society, Delta Phi Alpha.
