Bio

An Assistant Professor of German in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at NC State University, my work sits at the intersection of queer, trans*, and cultural studies in the modern and contemporary German-speaking world. I am particularly interested in archives of queer and trans* experiences in Weimar and Nazi Germany. I am a former Duane Rath Endowment Fellow at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Prior to NC State University, I completed my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Feminist Studies and College and University Teaching from UC Santa Barbara. A native speaker of German with near-native fluency in French, I am teaching language and literature course in English, French, and German. I am currently working on a monograph about transgender identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany. My main research and teaching interests cover German and European Modernism; queer and trans studies; gender studies; Holocaust Studies; memory studies; archival studies; film studies; urban literary studies; comparative and world literature; second-language acquisition including (English–French–German); neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

Publications

• A Place Like No Other: Exploring the Relationship between Amusement Parks and Queer Men in the Midwest , Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World (2025)
• Ervin Malakaj. Anders als die Andern , University of Toronto Quarterly (2025)
• Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Queer Space: The Urban Crisis of Male Prostitution in Oswald and Hirschfeld’s Anders als die Andern , Literary urban studies (2025)
• Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women by Nicole Perry , Great plains quarterly (2022)

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