Educational Background
- Ph.D., Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia
- M.A., Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia
- B.A., Germanic Languages & Literatures, English Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests
- German Jewish literature and culture
- American Jewish literature
- Holocaust Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Memory Studies
- Narrative theory
Teaching Interests:
- German language, literature, and culture
- German Jewish literature and culture
- Representation of the Holocaust
- Antisemitism
Selected Publications
ARTICLES
"German, Jewish, and Female: Encounters with Antisemitism in Mirna Funk's Winternähe (2015) and Deborah Feldman's Überbitten (2017)." Feminist German Studies. 39.1. (Spring/Summer 2023): 147-172.
“‘Once Upon a Time in Marseille’: Displacement and the Fairy Tale in Anna Seghers’ Transit.” Special Issue of Humanities: “Revisiting German Jewish Writing and Culture, 1945-1975.” Eds. Erin McGlothlin and Corey Twitchell. Humanities 2019: 8 (4). 1 November 2019.
“Postmemorial Autobiography in Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.35.1. (Fall 2016): 29-50.