Research Interests

Monuments and sites of memory
Media- and visual literacy
Nationalism (current movements, and historical conceptions of nationality in North America and Europe)
Narrative theory
Semiotics 
Translation and translation theory
Visual narratology

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Dissertation Title: Reading Double: Focalization, Myth and Master Narrative in German Children’s Picturebooks 1931-1940.
Academic Leave AU22-SP24
The Ohio State University, 2025

Master of Arts, Germanic Languages and Literatures
M.A. Thesis Title: “‘Man stellt Denkmäler nicht auf den flachen Asphalt’ – Nationalism and Narrative in Commemorative “Siegfried” Monuments in Weimar- and Nazi Germany.”
Study Abroad AU18-SP19
The Ohio State University, 2020                

Bachelor of Arts, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures + Double Major English Linguistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017

Academic Publications

“Siegfried in Stone – The Malleability of Myth.” in Mythological Motifs in Narrative. Eds. Habib Tekin and Irem Atasoy. Maurer Verlag. Under Review.

Non-academic Publications

“Is Columbus becoming a safe space for neo-Nazis?” The Columbus Dispatch. 25. November 2024.

Courses Taught at The Ohio State University

German 6101
German for Reading Knowledge (Enrollment ~28)
Graduate language course
SU21; SU22

German 5797 (Co-Resident Director)
Study at a Foreign Institute (Enrollment ~13)
Dresden Summer Program
SU25

German 3798 (Co-Resident Director)
Global May Germany
General Education faculty-led study abroad course (Enrollment ~20)
SU24

German 3254H
Holocaust Film
Honor’s general education course (Enrollment ~25)
AU24; AU25

German 3252 (Grader)
The Holocaust in Film and Literature
General education course (Enrollment ~200-400)
SP21; SP24; AU25

German 2254 (Grader and Guest Lecturer)
Grimms’ Fairy Tales and their Afterlives
General education course (Enrollment ~100-300)
AU19; AU20; AU21; SP22

German 2101
Texts and Contexts I
German Major and Minor course for Dresden Summer Program (Enrollment ~6)
SU25

German 1103
Intermediate language course (Enrollment ~18)
AU20; SP21; AU21; SP22; SP24

German 1102
Basic to intermediate language course (Enrollment ~21)
AU19; SP20

German 1101
Elementary language course (Enrollment ~20)
AU17; SP18