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Overview

Education
Scholarships and Awards
Publications
Oral Presentations
Teaching
Service
Professional Memberships
Languages

Education

2015 –
PhD Candidate, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies
Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Chaos and Control: Indexicality and the Human Voice in Contemporary German Fiction. Advisor: Dr. Richard Langston
Abstract.

2005-2012
Magister Artium in Philosophy, Chinese Studies, and Cultural Studies
University of Leipzig

Scholarships and Awards

Bass Digital Educational Fellowship, Duke (competitive), 2021
Funding throughout the fall to create podcast-based teaching material.

Professor Sidney R. Smith Summer Research Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill (competitive), 2019

Dissertation Research Travel Award: Domestic, Duke (competitive), 2019
Research at the Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection, Washington University.

Summer Research Fellowship for Third-Year and Beyond PhD Students, Duke (competitive), 2018, ’20, ’21, ’22

Dissertation Research Travel Award: International, Duke (competitive), 2018
Archival research at the Staatsbibliothek Hamburg & the DLA Marbach.

Frank Borchardt Teaching Award, Duke University, 2017–2018

Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (competitive), 2010–2011
One-year scholarship for studying Chinese at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles, Co-Authored

with N. D. Jones: ”’Ist auch dein Herbst gekommen, Europa?’ Constellations of Time and Space in the Novels of Felix
Dörmann,” Journal of Austrian Studies 54, n0.2, 119-138.
DOI: 10.1353/oas.2021.0027

Book Chapters

“Von verblichenen Fotos und ratternden Projektoren: Zur Anti-Dokumentarästhetik in Christian Krachts Imperium,” in Christian Krachts Ästhetik, edited by Susanne Komfort-Hein and Heinz Drügh. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2020, pp. 127-136.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-04729-8_12

Book Reviews

Review of Neverstory: Science Fiction as Art- and Thinking-Machine by Dietmar Dath. Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 49, Part 1, 172-175.
DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2022.0012

“Homelessness Revisited,” review of Private Anarchy by Paul Buchholz. Novel 53, no. 3, 2020, 490-494.
DOI: 10.1215/00295132-8624733

Review of The German Epic in the Cold War. Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge by
Matthew D. Miller. Alexander Kluge Jahrbuch, Vol. 6, 2019, 419-424.

Oral Presentations

Invited talks:

Works in Progress Speaker Series, Duke University & University of NC at Chapel Hill, April 2020
“Index, Truth, and Technologies in Marcel Beyer’s Flughunde.”

Conference Papers:

GSA Convention, Portland OR, October 2019
“Poetic Thinking. Teaching Hubert Fichte.” (Seminar Paper.)

Second Annual Duke-Stanford Graduate Conference, Durham NC, April 2019
“Illness and Poetic Thinking as Suspensions of Life in the Poems of Thomas Kling.”

Christian Krachts Ästhetik, Frankfurt/Main,  May 2018
“Hybrides Kommentieren: Zur Anti-Dokumentarästethik in Christian Krachts Imperium.”

GSA Convention, Pittsburgh PE, September 2018
“Rainald Goetz’s Heute Morgen, Schreiberleben, and Digital Economy.” (Seminar paper.)

First Annual Stanford-Duke Graduate Conference, Stanford CA, April 2018
“Endgames. Interiority and Communication Breakdown in Thomas Bernhard’s The Lime Works.”

GSA Convention, Atlanta GA, October 2017
“Television, Literature, Protest. Documentary Strategies in Rainald Goetz’s Das Polizeirevier.” (Seminar paper.)

MLA Convention, Philadelphia PE, January 2017
“Origin and Natural History in Walter Benjamin’s Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels.”

BTWH 19. Annual Conference, Cambridge MA, May 2016
(with Lea Greenberg): “Melodrama as Mode of Experience in Felix Dörmann’s Jazz.”

Teaching

2016 –
Teaching Assistant at Duke and UNC at Chapel Hill

German 281 (UNC)	The German Idea of War (2 recitation sections)	Spring 2021
German 203 (UNC)	Intermediate German I (2 sections, )	Fall 2020
German 204 (UNC)	Intermediate German II	Spring 2020
German 203 (UNC)	Intermediate German I	Fall 2020
German 203 (UNC)	Intermediate German I	Fall 2019
German 101 (UNC)	Beginner’s German II	Spring 2019
German 101 (UNC)	Beginner’s German I	Fall 2018
German 204 (Duke)	Intermediate German II	Spring2018
German 203 (Duke)	Intermediate German I	Fall 2017
German 305s (Duke)	Politics and Identities in German Pop Culture	Spring2017
German 305s (Duke)	Youth and Pop Culture in Germany	Fall 2016

2012-2013
Foreign Language Instructor, Goethe Language Center, Qingdao, China
Taught German language courses from A1 to B2, designed teaching materials, developed a multiplatform TestDaF preparation course(online and in-class), multiple workshops, official tester of Goethe Exam

2012
Volunteer as a Foreign Language Instructor, Caritas Leipzig

Service

Third Annual Duke-Stanford Graduate Student Conference, online, September 2020
Member of organizing committee.

Second Annual Duke-Stanford Graduate Student Conference, Durham NC, April 2019
Member of organizing committee.

German Campus Day, UNC, April 2020
Assisted in preparation.

Department of German Language and Literature, Duke University, 2015-2016, 2019
Graduate student representative

Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Theory of Science, University of Leipzig, 2005-2008
Student representative on the departmental and university level.

Professional Memberships

German Studies Association
Modern Language Association

Languages

German (native)

English (near native)

Chinese (fluent)

French (reading)

Latin (reading)