I have been teaching for OSU's Ecampus since 2016 and in the autumn of 2018, I relocated from Rochester, New York to Corvallis, Oregon. Prior to that, I spent more than a decade at the University of Rochester where I was Associate Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, Affiliate Faculty in the Film & Media Studies Program, and Associate Faculty in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies. I am currently Instructor of German at Oregon State University. 

My research and teaching interests include late 20th-century German literature, film and culture; cinema studies; Marxist and feminist theories; porn studies; and audio-visual criticism. I am the author of Mothers, Comrades & Outcasts in East German Women’s Films (Indiana University Press, 2016), and have published on East German and post-unification cinema in Seminar and Women in German Yearbook. I am also the co-editor of How to Make The Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment, Visual Cultures and German Contexts (Bloomsbury, 2022) and of Spectacle, German Visual Culture, vol. 2 (Peter Lang, 2015) . I am currently working on a collaborative book and documentary film project that explores the story of former Namibian refugees in East Germany.

As an educator and a scholar in the humanities, I am interested in how digital technologies enable collaborative knowledge production in the public sphere. On my audio-visual criticism blog, I explore the audio-visual essay as a medium that is particularly relevant for film & media studies, and gender & sexuality studies. Combining the argumentative structure of the academic essay with the practice of filmmaking, audio-visual criticism provides us with a unique perspective on our objects of study and an opportunity for the creative production of knowledge.