• Indigenous literatures and cultures

• Settler-colonialism; anti-/decolonial theories

• Environmental humanities 

• Food sovereignty; food imperialism 

• Christian nationalism

I am a teaching and research assistant to the Chair of American Literature and Culture—Prof. Dr. Katharina Gerund. In my doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled “Unsettling Colonial Appetites in North American Indigenous Literatures,” I contemplate what it means to consume—read, analyze, teach—literary texts written by Indigenous authors as a settler living and working in Europe. This involves investigating if and/or how Indigenous literatures can nourish readers’ relationships with places and communities on Turtle Island. To undertake this work, my project hinges on the multifaceted signification of the term “body” as I consider how the paraconsistent, co-constitutive relationships between bodies of land and water, (human) biological bodies, and bodies of text are animated in/through contemporary literary works by predominantly Anishinaabe and Cree writers.

After completing my BA in English and German at Michigan State University, I moved to Austria to work as a Fulbright U.S. Teaching Assistant for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research. In July 2024 I received an MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures from the University of Vienna. My MA thesis, titled “Nurturing Resistance: Food Sovereignty in Jonny Appleseed and The Seed Keeper,” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schäfer. 

I am an active member of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS), Austria’s Young Americanists, and the Swiss Literary PhD Network.

Most recently, I organized two panels for early career researchers at the annual conference of the GKS which takes place in February 2026 in Tutzing, Germany. In November 2025 I was invited to present at the kick-off event for the CanadaForum at the University of Mannheim. And, in May 2025, I delivered a guest lecture for Uni Trier’s American Studies Lunch Lecture Series: Indigenous Stories of Land and Water. Additionally, in the last year, I have presented at conferences and workshops in Berlin, Frankfurt, Lisbon, and Vienna.

My book chapter, “‘Momma always said that woman was the epitome of resource’: Contesting Canada’s Colonial-Capitalist Food Systems in Jonny Appleseed,” was published in the volume Canada: A Model for Gender Equality? in late 2024. I also co-organized, with Jody Danard, the conference Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis which took place in October 2024 at the University of Bremen.

I am available to supervise BA theses that align with my research interests.

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