I am a lecturer of German in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. My research areas include the Romantic era, contemporary German literature, German-Jewish literature, Holocaust studies, women’s studies, literary multilingualism and translation studies, and minority literatures. More broadly, I work on eighteenth- through twenty-first-century intellectual history, literature, philosophy, and culture and explore the relevance of German Romanticism. My current project is of interdisciplinary nature and involves the fields of art, history, and literature and results in a collaborative effort of the UCLA Confucius Institute, Fowler Museum, Department of Germanic Languages, and Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. I am preparing a conceptual framework for the exhibit of Sandberg Siao’s (German-Jewish photographer) work at the Fowler and other museums. I currently translate memoirs and a diary by Leon Najberg who survived the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.