My work spans primarily Nordic and German literature, philosophy, film, and cultural history, with interdisciplinary anchors in environmental humanities, existentialism/phenomenology, queer theory, translation studies, and the history of science. The main arc of my scholarly research traces back to the question of the embodied interaction with the material and metaphorical world, particularly through linguistic, spatial, and temporal dimensions.

I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. Drawing on ecocriticism, existentialism, phenomenology, philology, media theory, and discourses of corporeality, my dissertation project traces an ecopoetics of flesh across the 20th century by comparatively studying German and Nordic poetry.

Future projects include work on German translator-poets; the philosophy of extinction; and the cultural legacies of race science.

I’m currently a 2024-2025 Fulbright fellow at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at Freie Universität Berlin, and from March until December 2025, I am guest researcher at the Department of Northern European Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In summer 2024, I’m participating in the annual Collegium Phaenomenologicum, conducting archival research as a C.H. Beck fellow at the German Literature Archive, and attending a translation seminar in the Faroe Islands. In 2023-2024, I was an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellow in Comparative Literature at Södertörn University (Stockholm).

I am also a literary translator from primarily Swedish, but increasingly also German, Norwegian, Faroese, and Danish.

As a first-generation college student, I earned my BA in German, Scandinavian & Dutch at the University of Minnesota and later my MA in Scandinavian Literature at the University of Washington. I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota.