Her doctoral research, completed at the University of Texas at Austin, focused on issues of sound, myth, and identity construction in Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and was published as a book entitled Reading Rilke’s Orphic Identity. Her second monograph, Orphic Echoes in the New German Landscape, is forthcoming. Her current research explores transnational identity and poetry, German spa culture, and modern renditions of mythic figures in literature and film.