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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.
Select Publications:
- “A Gendered Double-Bind for Womxn in Hasler’s Don’t Cheat, Darling! (1973).” Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society. New York: Berghahn, Forthcoming. This article explores the sexist/progressive double-bind in Joachim Hasler's football musical.
- “‘Der Tintenterror der Bürokratie’: Joseph Roth’s Autoethnographic Engagement with Bureaucratic Contact Zones”. Kontaktzonen und Grenzregionen. Aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Dresden: ISGV, 2019. 235-256. This article investigates how Joseph Roth used his position as a travel reporter to grapple with prejudical bureaucracies across Europe after WWI.
- “Philological Investigations — Hannah Arendt’s Berichte on Eichmann in Jerusalem”. Philology. An International Journal on the Evolution of Languages, Cultures and Texts. Vol. 2. Ed. Francesco Benozzo. Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 2016. 143-166. This article is a close reading of Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in order to explain the importance of the genre of reporting in light of Arendt's theorectical work.
- “The Role of the Editor in the Evolving Field of Editionsphilolgie”. The Future of Philology: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University Graduate Student Conference, Ed. Hannes Bajohr et al. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 63-75. This article draws further attention to the role of the editor in shaping works of literature, espeically in genre formation.
- "Writing in the Gap between J.F. Oberlin and J.M.R. Lenz: Promoting Empathy and Political Change via the Persuasive Depiction of Madness”. Büchner Lektüren für Dieter Sevin, Ed. Barbara Hahn. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. 41-66. This article discusses how Georg Büchner adapted the diaries of the pastor J.F. Oberlin for his novella on madness.
Select Presentations:
“Joseph Roth’s Warning Against Nazi Germany 1933-1939”, 43rd Annual German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR, October 2019.
“Creating Online Communities to Expand the Language Classroom”, 7th Annual Foreign Language Instructor Workshop, Austin Peay State University, TN, March 2019.
“Traveling Europe: Joseph Roth on Passports in the Interwar Period”, invited talk with Doerte Bischoff, Vanderbilt University, February 18, 2019.
“Joseph Roth on Bureaucratic Terror after the Russian Revolution”, Southeast German Studies Workshop, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 2018.
“Brecht’s Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken) in the Elementary German Classroom.” 132nd Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, 2017, Philadelphia, PA.
“Pearl Divers — Sebald, Arendt, Benjamin. The History of the Pearl as a Metaphor for Capital,” Annual American Comparative Literature Conference, 2014, New York University, NYC.
Education:
- Ph.D. in German Studies. Vanderbilt University. 2018
- M.A. in German Studies. Vanderbilt University. 2013
- B.A. in German Studies. Washington & Jefferson College. 2009
Teaching Schedule for Spring 2023:
GERM 3523 Advanced Conversation
GERM 3723 German for the European Market
GERM 4970 A Cultural History of Queer Berlin
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