Th 2-4 and by appointment

Ph.D. 2003, M.A. 1999, Cornell University
M.A. 1995, Stanford University

Previous teaching includes positions at NYU and Williams College.

Research & Teaching Interests:

20th and 21st century German literature, film, and performance; gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial and minority literatures; post-1968 political culture; fascism and sexuality. Recent seminars taught on Erinnerungskulturen/Memory Cultures; Colonialism/Migration/Globalization; GDR: from Ostzone to Ostalgie; Fascism and Sexuality; Subcultures & Countercultures since 1968; Gender & Sexuality from Fin-de-Siècle to Fascism.

Publications:

• “Multiculturalism, Integration, and Disidentification: Berlin’s Salon Oriental.” Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries 3.1 (Fall 2007/Winter 2008), special issue on “Muslim Integration in Postindustrial Democracies: Representations and Assimilation”: 91-116.
• "Transculturation, Transe Sexuality, and Turkish Germany: Kutlug Ataman's Lola und Bilidikid." German Life and Letters 59.4 (October 2006).
• Translations in Schwule Geschichte: Zeitschrift für schwule Geschichtswerkstätten, Archive und Bibliotheken; reviews in Focus on German Studies.

Books in Progress:

• Germany at the Margins: Sexuality, Race, and Culture since 1968
• Desiring Nazis: Fascism and Sexuality in Contemporary German Culture

Affiliations:

Modern Language Association; German Studies Association; Women in German; American Association of Teachers of German.