I have been teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth since 2017, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. I hold a PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz where I also received a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies.

 

My doctoral research culminated in the book Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany, which appeared with the MIT Press in 2022. The book received the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. I am now poised to begin a second monograph on the visual culture of the 1990s/2000s punk/girl band scene. The book will again be rooted to the promise and opportunity afforded by independently made art that builds community. (You can read more about the project here.)

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I currently serve as a Member-At-Large on the Board of the Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art. I recently collaborated with a team of scholars on the International Association for Visual Culture conference "Kinship | Abolition | Freedom," which took place at Dartmouth College in October 2025.

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In my free time, you'll likely find me playing with my kids, visiting an art museum, reading, crafting or puzzling with friends, tending to my plants, or stretching out on my yoga mat. 

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