My research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century German literature and cultural studies, women writers, and women and gender studies.  I also have a great interest in literature pedagogics.

In my  M.A. work with Helmut F. Pfanner at Vanderbilt University, I studied Martin Walser´s perception of modern America. A recent TV documentary, produced jointly by the Bavarian state TV and the University of Regensburg, features an extensive interview that I prepared and conducted with the novelist.  

My Ph.D. work at Regensburg with Georg Braungart, a former Max Kade Visiting Professor in the UW Department of Germanics, focuses on Alice Berend, Margarete Boehme and Clara Viebig – all early 20th century women writers in Berlin, whose once very popular, witty and critical novels I aim to bring to the attention of a contemporary audience.  I am finalizing a forthcoming book with Bouvier (Bonn, Germany) that relates the novelists´ gender conceptions to the development of the Women´s Movement, and to the emergence of Berlin as a cosmopolitan city, and jointly with Bouvier I am preparing a series of reprints of these authors´ works.