Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy, Dept. of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale University, expected 2010
Master of Arts, Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale University, 2007
Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature (German & French), Princeton, 2003
Klosterneuburg Bundesrealgymnasium, Austria, 1999

Main Interests

The Central European novel, nationalism and language politics in (post-) Habsburg literature, Habsburg colonialism and its literary implications, the interrelation between German and Eastern European culture and literature, foreignness in German literature (past and present), teaching a multi-cultural Germany.