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. My dissertation project traces the ecopoetics of flesh across the 20th century by comparatively studying German and Nordic poetry. Drawing on ecocriticism, existentialism, phenomenology, philology, and histories of the body, I pursue close readings oriented around three notions of corporeality (Leib, Körper, corps) and their manifestations in literary (primarily poetic) writing.

In 2024-2025, I’m a Fulbright fellow at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at Freie Universität 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, Norwegian, and German, but increasingly also 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.