Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
PhD Candidate
Contact
Courses
GER 300: Intermediate German II, MW 10am-12pm
Office Hours
Tue 1-3pm
Background
My dissertation focuses on the corpus of late medieval and early modern books of heroes (working title: The Making of the ‘Book of Heroes’ (15th/16th c.): Textuality, Materiality, and the History of the Book), combining literary analysis with questions of materiality and book history. I am interested in the production and reception of epic poems between manuscript and print culture, the transformation processes throughout the textual history of these poems, and the ways in which manual labor, material, and text intersected in making books of heroes.
Scholarships and Awards
Connaught International Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2019–2024
Conference Papers
- “Closed Doors and Dwarven Secrets: Laurin’s Mountain Kingdom,” Medieval Undergrounds: The 16th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium, May 2024.
- “Epic Poetry Between Manuscript and Print: The Making of the Heldenbuch,” International Graduate Colloquium for Medieval and Early Modern German Studies at Princeton University, Nov. 2-4, 2023.
- “Old Tales in a New Medium: On the Prefaces of Printed Books of Heroes (1479–1590 CE),” Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium 2019.