Curriculum Vitæ

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The Johns Hopkins University
2015. Ph.D., German Languages & Literature. (Expected.)
2012. M.A., German Languages & Literature

University of Michigan
2009. B.A. summa cum laude, History. (Departmental Honors.)

• Thesis: “Transcritical Encounters in Lacanian Psychoanalysis.” Awarded highest honors. (Advisor: Silke-Maria Weineck.)

• 2012. Max Kade Travel Grant Fellowship. Johns Hopkins University.
• 2011. Dahlem Humanities Center Fellowship. Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2010. DAAD Scholarship. DAAD/Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2009. Robert Hayden Humanities Award. Honors Program, University of Michigan.
• 2009. Arthur Fondiler Award for Best History Honors Thesis. Department of History, University of Michigan.
• 2008–2009. James B. Angell Scholar Award, University of Michigan.
• 2008–2009. LS&A Scholarship Award. University of Michigan.

German Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Kant and Post-Kantian Idealism, German Romanticism, Literary Theory and Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, Intellectual History.

Johns Hopkins University
2011–2012. Graduate Instructor. German Elements I & II.

• 2012. Review of Paul North’s The Problem of Distraction. MLN / Modern Language Notes 127 (3). (Forthcoming.)
• 2011. “Transcritical Encounters in Lacanian Psychoanalysis.” intersections 11 (2): 10–66.

• 2012. Invited participant, “Zeit und Literatur.” Sommerakademie an der Universität Bonn.
• 2011. Respondent, “Material Emotionality” Workshop. The Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Johns Hopkins University.
• 2011. “Freud, Benjamin and the Trace of History.” Invited participant, “Die ‘Erste Kulturwissenschaft’ und ihr Potential für die Gegenwart.” Internationale Sommerakademie des Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

• Fluency in German
• Reading knowledge of French

• Elisabeth Strowick. Associate Professor of German Thought. Johns Hopkins University.
• Rochelle Strowick. Professor of German Thought. Johns Hopkins University.
• Katrin Pahl. Assistant Professor of German Thought. Johns Hopkins University.
• Andrea Krauss. Assistant Professor of German Thought. Johns Hopkins University.
• Deborah McGee Mifflin. Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator of German Language Instruction. Johns Hopkins University.
• Silke-Maria Weineck. Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies. University of Michigan.