Research & Teaching Interests

• Language pedagogy: frequency-based approaches to language acquisition; use of authentic texts, communicative activities, and genre-based projects
• Community engagement: faculty mentor for the SPARK for German program, in which Baylor students teach German language and culture classes at local schools
• Post-WW2 Austrian literature, trauma theory, and trauma literature
• Multidisciplinary approaches (literary, theoretical, philosophical, clinical) to the relationship between language and trauma

Education

Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, University of Illinois in Chicago, 2017

Master’s in Urban Planning (MSUP) and Master’s in Public Health (MPH), Columbia University, 2008

B.S., Science, Technology and Society, Stanford University, 2004

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Beginning German I & II (GER 1301 & 1302)
• Accelerated Beginning German (GER 1412)
• Intermediate German I (GER 2310)
• Advanced Conversation and Composition (GER 3301)
• 20th-Century Trauma Literature in Context (in development)
• Intermediate Ballet (LF 1118)

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

“Traumatic Dreams as Sites of Witness and Resistance in the Life and Work of Ingeborg Bachmann.” In Dreams and Atrocity: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Trauma in Art, Literature and Visual Culture. Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022): 99-119.

“Leo Perutz, from Celebrated Novelist to Forgotten Author: A Remigration Enigma.” In Bilderbuch-Heimkehr? Remigration im Kontext. Katharina Prager and Wolfgang Straub, eds. (Vienna: Arco Verlag, 2017): 339-348.

Article

“The Beetle in Pain: Private Trauma in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina.” Journal of Austrian Studies 53.4 (2020): 1-25.