Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century German and comparative literature, with a special interest in literary theory, aesthetics, visual and material culture, new materialism, and museum studies. She is currently completing her book manuscript on modernist practices of collecting. She has forthcoming articles in the New German Critique, German Life and Letters, and the collected volume Que(e)rying Consent. Together with Reto Sorg, the Director of the Robert Walser Center in Switzerland, she is editing a collection of essays on Walser's penchant for walking. Before coming to Tufts, she taught at Rutgers University (2015-2016) and the University of Bern in Switzerland (2014-2015). She received her Ph.D. from Yale's Department of Comparative Literature in 2015.