German to English translator and editor
2017–present

Translator, Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), Saarland University
April 2024–present

Research scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
2023–2024

Guest faculty at Bard College Berlin
2019–2023

Contract grant writer/writer in public affairs for Central City Concern, Portland, Oregon, USA
2017–2018

Associate professor of German and Humanities, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
2013–2017

Assistant professor of German and Humanities, Reed College
2012–2013

Assistant professor of German, University of Calgary, Canada
Tenure granted 2011
2007–2015

PhD in German, Princeton University, USA
2007

Lecturer at the Universität Osnabrück, Germany
2007

Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories, with Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, and Annette F. Timm. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2020. Selected as a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title—an award given by the American Library Association to 3% of the books they review every year (approximately 3,600 titles).

Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld, edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, and Rainer Herrn. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Vor der Familie: Grenzbedingungen einer modernen Institution [Before the family: limits of a modern institution], with Albrecht Koschorke, Nacim Ghanbari, Eva Eßlinger, and Sebastian Susteck. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2010.

“Family Politics.” Special issue of Republic of Letters, with Adrian Daub, volume 3/issue 2 (2014).

“Transvestites/Transsexuals,” with Rainer Herrn. In Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, edited by Howard Chiang, 1640–1644. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019.

“Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science as Archive, Museum, and Exhibition.” In Not Straight from Germany, ed. Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, Rainer Herrn, 12–36. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.

“Sentimentalizing the Case Study: Emma Trosse’s Deviant Genre,” with Mara Taylor. In Not Straight from Germany, ed. Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, Rainer Herrn, 243–282. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Interpretations of Sonnets I.8, II.8, and II.23. In Über ‘Die Sonette an Orpheus’ von Rilke: Lektüren, ed. Christoph König and Kai Bremer, 50–53; 182–186; 262–265. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016.

“Queer Moravians? Sexual Heterodoxy and the Historiography of Zinzendorf’s Ehereligion.” In Gender im Pietismus: Netzwerke und Geschlechterkonstruktionen, ed. Pia Schmid, 93–116. Halle: Verlage der Franckesche Stiftungen/Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission, 2015.

“Sex on Display: Sexual Science and the Exhibition PopSex! in Calgary,” with Annette F. Timm. In Exhibiting the German Past: Museums, Film, and Musealization, ed. Peter M. McIsaac and Gabriele Müller, 227–247. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015.

“Geschlechter/Grenzen: Die Ehe und der Staat in Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts” [Gender boundaries: marriage and the state in Hegel’s Foundations of the Philosophy of Right]. In StaatsSachen/Matters of State: Fiktionen der Gemeinschaft im langen 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Arne De Winde, Sientje Maes, Bart Philipsen, 305–324. Heidelberg: Synchron Publishers, 2013.

“‘Was heißt Aufklärung?’ Eine Fußnote zur Ehekrise” [What is enlightenment? a footnote to a marriage crisis]. In Vor der Familie: Grenzbedingungen einer modernen Institution [Before the family: limits of a modern institution], 51–96. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2010.

“Überhaupt noch einmal lesen zu lernen: Emil Staiger und Martin Heidegger” [Learning to read once again: Emil Staiger and Martin Heidegger]. In Im Nachvollzug des Geschriebenseins: Theorie der Literatur nach 1945, ed. Barbara Hahn, 121–134. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2007.

“Magnus Hirschrfeld’s Interpretation of the Japanese Onnagata as Tranvsestites,” with Rainer Herrn. Journal of the History of Sexuality 27, no. 1 (January 2018): 63–100.

“Right Queer: Hegel’s Philosophy of Marriage.” In “Family Politics” with Adrian Daub, eds., special issue of Republic of Letters, volume 3/issue 2 (2014).

“Same/Sex: Incest and Friendship in Lessing’s Nathan der Weise.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 48:3 (September 2012): 333–348.

„Was heißt Aufklärung?“ Eine Fußnote zur Ehekrise.“ In Vor der Familie: Grenzbedingungen einer modernen Institution [Before the family: limits of a modern institution], with Albrecht Koschorke, Nacim Ghanbari, Eva Eßlinger, and Sebastian Susteck. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2010.

“Critical Absorption: Kant’s Theory of Taste.” Modern Language Notes 124 (2009): 572–591.

“Anna Seghers an Peter Szondi: Drei Briefe 1948” [Anna Seghers to Peter Szondi: Three letters, 1948], ed. with commentary. Geschichte der Germanistik: Mitteilungen 33/34 (2008): 101–105.

“Humanismus ohne Abstraktion: Peter Szondi und Jean-Paul Sartre im Schauspielhaus Zürich” [Humanism without abstraction: Peter Szondi and Jean-Paul Sartre in the Zürich Schauspielhaus]. Geschichte der Germanistik: Mitteilungen 33/34 (2008): 106–117.

“Blindness and Imagination in Kant.” In “Imagination und Invention,” in Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Beiheft 2 (2006), ed. Philipp Mehne and Toni Bernhart: 285–298.

University of Calgary, Faculty of Arts Distinguished Research Award. Jointly with Annette F. Timm. Four awards were given in a faculty of approximately 400 full-time academic members.
March 2011

Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Canada, full-time faculty fellow (declined).
January 2011

University of Calgary, Canada, Project Engage – a two-year, university-wide pilot-project to redesign first-year courses with the aim of increasing student enrollment (one of eight professors chosen).
2011

Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Exzellenzcluster Cultural Foundations of Integration at the Universität Konstanz, Germany.
Summer 2008 and 2009

Fellowships from the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg and the Network for Transatlantic Cooperation at the Universität Konstanz, Germany.
2006–2007

Fellowship in the Graduiertenkolleg Die Figur des Dritten at the Universität Konstanz, Germany (declined).
2005–2006

Fellow of the Sommerschule Literaturwissenschaft, Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach, Germany.
Summer 2005

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship, for three semesters in Berlin to study with Professors Winfried Menninghaus and Christoph Menke.
2002–2004

Language grant for study at the Sorbonne, Paris, Council for Regional Studies, Princeton University, USA.
Summer 2001

Mellon Summer Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University, USA.
Summer 2000

25+ years’ experience of university teaching in German literature and culture, German language, humanities, sociology, and philosophy.

All levels of German language instruction (Princeton University, University of Calgary, Reed College, Bard College Berlin).

Seminar at Bard College Berlin
The German Public Sphere

Seminars at Reed College
German 330, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature
German 332, Classical and Avant-Garde Theatre in Post-War Germany
German 334, German Landscapes, New World Horizons
German 462, Goethe

Seminars at the University of Calgary 
ASHA 220, Arts and Sciences Honours Academy: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
German 200, Introductory Lecture to German Studies
German 469, Alps, Oaks and Autobahn: Concepts of Nature in German Culture
German 469, Classical and Avant-Garde Theater in Post-War Germany 
German 561, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature (jointly with Annette F. Timm, Calgary)
German 561, Intimate Letters: Literary Love, Friendship and Understanding in the Age of Goethe 
German 561, Kafka 

Seminars in Osnabrück and Konstanz (taught in German)
Queer Berlin 1862–1945 (Universität Osnabrück)
Narratives of Emancipation in the Nineteenth Century (Konstanz, cotaught)
Heroines on Stage 1755–1801: Theater, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere (Konstanz)

Teaching assistant at Princeton University for
German 210, Introduction to German Philosophy (Arnd Wedemeyer and Walter Hinderer)
Philosophy 385, Practical Ethics and Bioethics (Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University Center for Human Values)
Sociology 215, Innovation and Creativity in Society (Steven J. Tepper)

CAD 148,795 and EUR 100,000 in eight competitive research grants between 2007 and 2012 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the German Academic Exchange Service; the University of Konstanz; and the University of Calgary