Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies; Department of Comparative Literature (2016-present), UCLA
Previous Positions:
Associate Professor of German, University of Illinois (2012-2016)
Conrad Humanities Scholar, University of Illinois (2013-2016)
(Distinction awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Affiliated with the Program in Comparative and World Literature, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the EU Center.
Visiting Associate Professor of German, Harvard University (Fall 2013)
Assistant Professor of German, University of Illinois (2006-2012)
Lecturer in German, University of Illinois (2005-2006)
Visiting Teaching Associate in German, University of Illinois (2001-2004)
Education
Ph.D. German Studies, Cornell University, 2006
Dissertation: “Beyond the Mother Tongue: Configurations of Multilingualism in Twentieth Century German Literature” Dissertation committee: Leslie A. Adelson (chair), Biddy Martin, Peter Uwe Hohendahl
School of Criticism and Theory, Ithaca, NY (June-July 2002)
Participant in seminar “Bilingual Games” led by Doris Sommer, Harvard University
M.A. German Studies, Cornell University, 2001
M.A. German Language and Literature; History, Universität Hamburg, Germany 1998
Thesis: “Geteilte Zeiten: ‘Dialog’ und Adressierung in den Holocaustzeugnissen von Jean Améry und Ruth Klüger” [Shared Times: ‘Dialogue’ and Address in the Holocaust Testimonies of Jean Améry and Ruth Klüger] Advisor: Marianne Schuller
Graduate Course Work, Dept. of Comparative Literature (1994-1995), Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, New York, NY
Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
since 2021 Advisory Member to Editorial Board, Journal of Literary Multilingualism
2016 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies
awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (award is given every three years in the field of humanities)
since 2015 Editorial Board, Women in German Literature Book Series, Peter Lang Oxford
2014 Honorable Mention, Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for
Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition
2013 Visiting Associate Professor of German, Harvard University
2012 Winner, 10th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association, for Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition
2012 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for the essay "Governing European Subjects: Tolerance and Guilt in the Discourse of 'Muslim Women'", Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, U of Illinois
since 2012 Editorial Board, Critical Multilingualism Studies
since 2012 International Fellow, The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt
2011-2012 ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (for joint project with Michael Rothberg and Andrés Nader)
2011 European Union Center of Excellence Grant for organizing a three-year lecture series
2010 Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, Campus Research Board Support, U of Illinois
2009 British Council Award, Researcher Exchange Programme
(Host: Prof. Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds)
2008 Humanities Released Time for Fall 2008, U of Illinois
Hewlett Research Travel Grant for Summer 2008, U of Illinois
2007 Campus Research Board Support for Research Assistant and
Equipment for Spring 2008, U of Illinois
2004-2005 American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of
University Women (AAUW)
2002 Research Travel Grant to Germany, Cornell University
2001-2016 Regularly ranked as excellent on the "List of Outstanding Teachers" University of Illinois
2000-2001 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
1997-1998 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
1994-1995 Fulbright Scholarship for study at City University of New York
1994 Travel Grant, Institute of International Education