Associate Professor of Norwegian
Nordic Studies and Environmental Studies affiliate faculty
My teaching and research focus on the literature and media of the Nordic region, viewed through an ecocritical lens. I have over a decade of experience teaching Norwegian language, textual analysis, and writing at the undergraduate level. My research has examined poetic responses to environmental change, the ethics of writing self and other, and most recently the rhetoric of Greta Thunberg and its international reception. I hold a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. I have been named a Fulbright Fellow to Norway twice–as a student researcher in 2006–2007 and a scholar in 2025–2026. I am currently on a research sabbatical in Oslo, where I am working on a book about how cultural understandings of water inform Norwegians’ responses to hydropower development.