Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; M.A./First Staatsexamen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Post-Enlightenment German and Austrian literature and thought, with an emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century narrative prose; poetics of knowledge; literary and narrative theory; film studies; nature-culture relations and visuality in literature; law and literature; Franz Kafka

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tufts University; American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship; American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Travel Grant Award; Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University; Dorot Foundation Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; Visiting Student Fellowships, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Brown University

"Duality, Duel, Diplomacy: Aesthetics and Politics in Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Forthcoming.

“Narrative Transformed: The Fragments around Franz Kafka’s ‘A Report to an Academy’.” Humanities 6.2 (2017). (Special Issue Animal Narratology)

“Pre-Positioning the Narrator: Circumspection, Speaking-For, and Previous Knowledge in Adalbert Stifter’s ‘Granit’.” Journal of Austrian Studies 49.3 (2016): 17-42.

“Speaking for Liveliness: Franz Kafka’s Obituary for Hyperion and his Introductory Speech on Yiddish.” The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 334-354.

“Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist FK and Prokurist Josef K.” Kafka for the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Stanley Corngold and Ruth V. Gross. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011 (Paperback 2015). 120-135.

Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film. Arcadia. International Journal of Literary Culture 51.2 (2016): 434-437. 

 

Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds. Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading. Monatshefte 105.1 (2013): 153-155.

Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner, eds. Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (trans. Eric Patton and Ruth Hein). Modernism/Modernity 17.4 (2010): 957-959.

Sabine Kyora, Eine Poetik der Moderne. Zu den Strukturen Modernen Erzählens. Modern Language Notes (MLN), 124.3 (2009): 763-766.

Current projects include book manuscripts on the rhetoric and poetics of speaking-for (Fürsprache) in Franz Kafka’s writings as well as on water in modern thought and literature.