• Indigenous literatures and cultures

• Settler-colonialism; anti-/decolonial theories

• Environmental humanities 

• Food sovereignty; food imperialism 

• Canadian Anglophone literature(s)

I am a teaching and research assistant to the Chair of American Literature and Culture—Prof. Dr. Katharina Gerund. In my doctoral project I contemplate what it means to consume—read, analyze, teach—literary texts written by Indigenous authors as a settler living and working in Europe. More specifically in my dissertation, tentatively titled “Unsettling Colonial Appetites with/in Anishinaabe Literature,” I consider how contemporary Anishinaabe writers unsettle voracious colonial appetites—for lands, bodies, and texts—with/in their literary works. In conversation with xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) scholar and his concept “hungry listening,” I attempt to theorize "hungry reading"—the extractive, but normalized, ways non-Indigenous readers engage with Indigenous texts. Ultimately, I argue my primary texts resist hungry reading as they unsettle colonial appetites and nourish Anishinaabe presence and futurity.

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 currently serving as co-speaker for the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) and am also an active member of 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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