Born in Munich, Germany, I came to the U.S. as an international student, and now hold a BA (UNC Chapel Hill) and an MALS (Duke University) and am a PhD candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.
My research sits at the nexus of poetry, media and gender studies from German Modernism onward, and currently engages specifically with language structures (semiotics) in poetry vis-à-vis AI technology.
My teaching focuses primarily on German language learning and on content courses on topics related to contemporary Germany.
My narrative-non-fiction books and articles outside of my immediate research area have been published internationally and in a variety of languages.