I have been teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth since 2017, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. I am currently in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at the U of M Twin Cities campus. 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 am also collaborating with a team of scholars on the International Association for Visual Culture conference "Kinship, Abolition, Freedom", which will take place at Dartmouth College in October 2025.

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

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