I am a scholar-teacher working at the intersection of queer studies and German cultural history
Based in Vancouver, I am an Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of British Columbia. My research interests include 19th-century literature, film and media cultures, and queer German studies. This work variously engages scholarship in affect, narrative, and queer theory.
My latest book.
Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Supporters celebrated the film's moving storyline, while conservative detractors succeeded in prohibiting public screenings. Banned and partially destroyed after the rise of Nazism, the film was lost until the 1970s and only about one-third of its original footage is preserved today. My book examines the structures of queer mourning facilitated by the film on the basis of its over 100-year-old reception history.
A shorter writeup based on the book was published in The Conversation. You can also learn more about this work in an interview I did for the New Books Network.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023