Bio

Specialties include twentieth- and twenty-first century German literature and film; theories of modernity; photography; literary and media theory.

Current Research Projects

My research engages interdisciplinary approaches to literature and media, the relationship of aesthetics and politics, “photographic” texts, literary and other media theories, and film. Published articles on W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Peter Henisch, and Alexander Kluge are part of a book project that examines the use of photographic images and allusions to photography in German and Austrian fiction after World War II. A separate project engages Alexander Kluge’s work between and across various media platforms (text, film, television, internet).

Courses Taught

• GERM 201 Intermediate German I
• GERM 202 Intermediate German II
• GERM 310 Composition
• GERM 315 Literary Investigations: German Short Fiction
• GERM 321 German Culture and Civilization I (study abroad)
• GERM 322 German Culture and Civilization II (study abroad)
• GERM 332 German Literary Expression II
• GERM 362 The Weimar Republic
• GERM 411 Literatur der Großstadt
• GERM/FILM 435 German Film
• INTS 201 Introduction to International Studies