CV

Publications 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “A Queer and Foreign State: Iceland’s Cinematic Subjects,” Lambda Nordica, 2021.
• “Ástin sem varð að taugahrúgu [The love that became a nervous wreck]: Or, What Does Queer Failure Have to Do With Translation?,” PARSE Journal, 2020.

Translations

• Six poems by Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir, Seedings, 2019.
• Poem by Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir, Poem: International English Language Quarterly, 2018.

Selected Grants & Awards

• UW Chester Fritz International Research Fellowship, 2022
• UW College of Arts & Sciences Arlene Hunter Scholarship, 2022
• UW Simpson Center Society of Scholars Summer Fellowship, 2022
• UW Joff Hanauer Fellowship in Western Civilization, 2019
• Fulbright Research Fellowship to Iceland, 2018
• American-Scandinavian Foundation Research Fellowship, 2018
• UW Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation (GSFEI) Travel Award, 2017
• Scan|Design Foundation Summer Scholarship, 2017
• Danish Ministry of Higher Education & Science Summer Language Scholarship, 2017
• UW Graduate School Top Scholar Award, 2016

Conferences

Panels Organized

• “Ahistorical Affects: Gender Feelings in the Presence of the Past,” CLGBT History Queer History Conference, 2022.

Papers Presented

• “Queer and Trans Environmental Futures Roundtable,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2023 (accepted).
• “Black Indigenous Encounter in the Colonial Exhibition,” Black Indigeneity Workshop, Gender Studies Conference, 2022 (accepted).
• “Something Trans about the Archive: Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc,” CLGBT History Queer History Conference, 2022.
• “Black Borealisms: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Spatiotemporality of the North,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 2022.
• “Whose Breast Revolution? Nudes, Nipples, and Human Rights in Iceland,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2020.
• “‘Party like a criminal’ Erik Lundin’s Allegorical Suedi and Postnational Swedish Identity,” with Maïmouna Jagne-Soreau, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 2018.
• “A Movement Between: Mellanförskap and the Rap Oeuvre of Erik Lundin,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music Norden, 2017.

Teaching

University of Washington

• Multimodal Composition, Predoctoral Instructor
• Expository Composition, Predoctoral Instructor
• First Year Danish, Predoctoral Instructor
• Nobel Prize in Literature, Teaching Assistant
• Vikings in Popular Culture, Teaching Assistant
• Sagas of the Vikings, Teaching Assistant
• Scandinavian Mythology, Teaching Assistant
• Intro to Swedish Literary & Cultural History, Teaching Assistant
• Scandinavian Children’s Literature, Teaching Assistant

Service

• Graduate Student Representative, Executive Council, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
• Graduate Student Representative, Nordic Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• Member, DEI Committee, UW Scandinavian Studies
• Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, UW Scandinavian Studies (2019-2020)
• Collaborator, UW Translation Studies Graduate Research Cluster (2019-2020)
• Senator, UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate (2016-2018)
• Member, Graduate Colloquium Committee, UW Scandinavian Studies (2016-2018)

Additional Education & Training

• School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 2021
• Multilingual Writing Lab, Ós Pressan, 2018-2019
• Danish Summer Language Course, Askov Højskole, 2017
• International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School, British Centre for Literary Translation, 2017
• Graduate Translation Conference & Workshops, 2017
• Institute in Faroese Language and Culture, University of the Faroe Islands, 2016
• Summer Course in Modern Icelandic, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2016

Memberships

• Committee on LGBT History (CLGBTH)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
• Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS)