Education & Professional History
University of Minnesota, BA, MA, PhD
I received my PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2019. My research interests include environmental humanities, ecocriticism, critical theory and German-language literature. In particular, I explore geologic time scales in fiction and how stories of the deep past are told. I have studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg and at the Universität Graz. After finishing my undergraduate studies, I spent two years teaching English in Austria as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. In 2018-2019 I held a Fulbright research grant at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the LMU in Munich.
Do you want to study in Berlin? Check out our OCS program in Berlin in Fall 2022 and contact me with questions.
At Carleton since 2019.
Highlights & Recent Activity
Faculty Director German OCS Program
German Student Worker Coordinator
German Language Associate Coordinator
Current Courses
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Fall 2021
GERM 247:
Mirror, Mirror: Reflecting on Fairy Tales and Folklore
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Winter 2022
GERM 102:
Elementary German
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Spring 2022
GERM 321:
On the Edge: Monsters, Robots, and Cyborgs
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Fall 2022
GERM 205:
Berlin Program: Intermediate Composition and Conversation
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GERM 258:
Berlin Program: Berlin Memory Politics
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GERM 259:
Berlin Program: German in Motion: Migration, Place and Displacement
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GERM 305:
Berlin Program: Advanced Composition and Conversation
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GERM 359:
Berlin Program: German in Motion: Migration, Place, and Displacement
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OCP 524:
CARLETON GERMAN IN BERLIN
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Winter 2023
GERM 102:
Elementary German
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Spring 2023
GERM 274:
Weimar Germany: Art, Culture, and the Failure of Democracy
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
Co-editor with Seth Peabody and Dan Nolan of special section “Sustainability and Community Engagement in German Studies.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 54, no.2, 2021.
Sustainability and Community Engagement in German Studies. Special Section Introduction” Co-authored with co-editors of special section Dan Nolan and Seth Peabody. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 54, no. 2, 2021, pp. 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12173
“Environment and Engagement in German Studies: Projects and Resources for Critical Environmental Thinking.” Co-authored with Seth Peabody. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 54, no. 2, 2021, pp. 245-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12174
“Narrating a Valley in Max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän: Material Agency, Rain, and the Geologic Past.” Humanities, vol. 10, no. 1, 2021, 43. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010043
“Key Words.” Co-authored with Charlotte Melin. Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment: Theory, Curricula, Institutional Structures, edited by Charlotte Melin, The Modern Language Association of America, 2019.
“Material Ecocriticism and Peter Handke’s Versuch über den Pilznarren.” Of Rocks, Mushrooms and Animals: Material Ecocriticism in German-speaking Cultures, edited by Cecilia Novero in collaboration with August Obermayer and Peter Barton, Dunedin, 2017, pp. 73-96.
Other Publications
Environment and Engagement in German Studies: A Resource Hub for Ecocriticism, Pedagogy, and Academic Civic Engagement. https://www.carleton.edu/german/sustainability/
Book Review: “Jason Groves. The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary.” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory. Vol. 92, no. 2, 2021 pp. 214-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2020.1865689
“Sustainability and German Studies: From Ecocriticism to Community Engagement.” Review essay on 2019 GSA seminar, co-authored with Dan Nolan and Seth Peabody. German Studies Review vol. 43, no. 2, 2020.
