My background

I’m a trained scholar and writing teacher who’s been helping writers hone their craft for the last four years. I hold a Ph.D. in German Literature and Language from Yale University and an M.A. and B.M. in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University. At Yale, I worked as a graduate teaching and postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Writing Lab, where I worked individually with graduate student writers, facilitated dissertation peer review groups, and designed and taught writing workshops on topics ranging from grant and fellowship writing to the fundamentals of research. I also developed and taught two topic-based undergraduate humanities writing seminars designed to introduce students to college-level writing and argumentation. Both as a teacher and a freelance writing consultant, I have considerable experience working with multilingual writers and a special passion for helping early-career scholars across the disciplines translate their research into a clear and compelling narrative.

In addition to my editorial and consulting work, I am the author of FTM Transgender and Transmasculine Identities, an educational resource for middle and high school students forthcoming in 2023 from Mason Crest. Other recent editorial projects include indexing Italian Film in the Present Tense by Yale Professor Penny Marcus and the copy- and language editing of the anthology Forces of Nature: Dynamism and Agency in German Literature, edited by Adrian Renner and Frederike Middelhoff.