I received my B.A. in History and German in 2009 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I graduated summa cum laude with Highest Honors in the Department of History. From 2010 to 2016, I was enrolled in the German Program at the Johns Hopkins University, where I earned my M.A. in 2012 and Ph.D. in 2016. From 2013 to 2014, I was affiliated as a visiting doctoral student with both the PhD-Net “Das Wissen der Literatur” (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and the Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (Freie Universität Berlin). From 2016 to 2018, I was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in German Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA.

As of August 2018, I am Assistant Professor of German at Virginia Tech.

Drawing on the fields of literary studies, the history of science, and media studies, my book project, Small Forms: Micrologies of German Literature and Science around 1800, examines the epistemics and poetics of small forms and reconstructs the conditions that made ‘smallness’ a central point of reference in literary and scientific debates and shaped practices of writing and (self-)observation around 1800. For more information about this book project, click here.

More broadly, my research and teaching focus on the intersection of media theory, the history of science, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and thought.