I’ve helped dozens of researchers develop their work into journal articles, book manuscripts, and grant proposals. I regularly run writing workshops for faculty at the University at Buffalo. I most enjoy working with writers who use complex theoretical or interpretive frameworks and want to make their work more broadly accessible.

My academic research is at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and intellectual history. I completed a PhD in German Literature and Critical Thought from Northwestern University in 2023. From 2019 to 2021, I was a visiting scholar at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU) and awarded Fulbright and DAAD grants to conduct doctoral research on the foundation of the first research university (HU in 1809) and education reform movements in early twentieth-century Germany. My dissertation traces a critique of mass educational learning techniques, specifically, the lecture format, as it appears in the works Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin and their development of a theory of (un)learning that inserts distance into the pedagogical relation to produce a discretized educational community.

In addition to my academic training, I have completed an editing certificate from the University of Chicago and an indexing course through UC Berkeley. I live in Buffalo, NY, where I also work as a grant editor at the University at Buffalo.