Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy, Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature (German & French), Princeton University
Klosterneuburg Bundesrealgymnasium, Austria

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.