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

2020 – present             Doctor of Philosophy, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Dissertation Title: 
Reading Double: A Semiotically Informed Analysis of Myth and Master 
Narrative in Children's Picturebooks from 1929-1945.
Academic Leave AU22-SP24 
The Ohio State University

2017 – 2020                  Master of Arts, Germanic Languages and Literatures

M.A. Thesis 
Study Abroad AU18-SP19     
The Ohio State University

2013 – 2017                   Bachelor of Arts, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Double Major: English Linguistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

2020                               MA Thesis. “‘Man stellt Denkmäler nicht auf den flachen Asphalt’ – Nationalism and
Narrative in Commemorative “Siegfried” Monuments in Weimar- and Nazi Germany.” 

2016                               Coauthor. “Attention to “Cirrhosis” in the News Media in 36 Countries Worldwide: 
Insufficient Awareness of Non-alcoholic Compared to Alcoholic Liver Disease.” 
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases May 2016

TRANSLATION PROJECTS

2023                            Compiled Writings and Memoirs of Gisela Steinbach. 160+ page memoir translated for the family of the late Ms. Steinbach; prose, poetry, and archival materials.

2020 (in progress)     Co-translator: Dr. Ann-Sophie Röhm. Nazi Experiments on Extreme Cooling and  Warming Effects on the Body. Translation for Dr. Med. Pedro Weisleder, Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

PRESENTATIONS

May 2022                    “The Persistence of Memory and a Decaying Monument—What Denazification Left Behind” 
Presentation at the 2022 2nd Annual European Languages and Transcultural Studies Conference, The University of California Los Angeles 
Permanence and Decay

February 2022            “Memories, Monuments, and the Remnants of Denazification” 
Presentation at the 2022 14th Annual GGSA Conference, The Ohio State University 
Traditions: A Survey into the Past, Present and Future in German-speaking Cultures    

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2024  Max Kade Dissertation Fellowship
2022  Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grants
2021  Felice M. Grad Endowed Scholarship for Graduate Research
2020  Dr. Henry J. Kratz Graduate Student Research Scholarship
2019  Freunde und Förderer der TU Dresden 
2018  Dr. Henry J. Kratz Graduate Student Research Scholarship
2018  Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst 
2018  Erasmus+ 
2015  Foreign Language Area Studies Grant in Russian

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2021 – 2022  Vice President of the Germanic Graduate Student Association
2020 – 2021  Council of Graduate Students, Member of Graduate Compensation and Benefits Committee  
2020 – 2021  Max Kade German House Liaison
2017 – 2018  Member of the Kaffeestunde Committee

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024                                       Resident Director, Global May Germany Program, The Ohio State University, Berlin DE
2024                                       Graduate Teaching Associate and Grader at the Ohio State University, Columbus USA
2023 – 2024                           Student Life Program Assistant, New York University Berlin, Berlin D
2022 – 2023                           Freelance Translator and Interpreter at Booka Local, UG, Berlin DE
2022 – 2023                           Freelance German Instructor at German Language School (GLS), Berlin DE
2022                                        Project Manager, German-English translator at Alpha Translation Service GmbH, Berlin DE
2020 – present                      Independent Translator of German
2019 – 2022                           Graduate Teaching Associate and Grader at the Ohio State University, Columbus USA
2019                                        English Trainer, FremdSprachen Akademie GmbH, Dresden DE
2019                                        English Trainer, Berufsförderungswerk, Dresden DE
2018                                        Camp Counselor and Intern at Deutsche Akademie für Sprachen, Berlin DE
2017 – 2018                           Graduate Teaching Associate at the Ohio State University, Columbus USA
2017 – 2022                           Independent Tutor of German for high school and university students
2016                                        Media and Translation Intern at Medienbüro am Reichstag GmbH, Berlin DE

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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

AU20, 21; SP21, 22, 24           German 1103 (Instructor), Intermediate language course (Enrollment ~18)

SP21; AU21, SP24                  German 3252 (Grader), The Holocaust in Film and Literature
General Education course (Enrollment ~200-400)

 SU21, 22                                 German 6101 (Instructor), German for Reading Knowledge (Enrollment ~28)

AU19, 20; SP22                       German 2254 (Grader and Guest Lecturer), Grimms’ Fairy Tales and their Afterlives   
General Education course (Enrollment ~100-300)

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

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