John's Newfoundland, Canada. She obtained her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Western Ontario in 2011, and has published on the Berlin writings of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Yoko Tawada, and Terezia Mora and on contemporary German-language literature about the former Yugoslavia. Her research interests include contemporary German-language literature from former Eastern Europe; notions of German, Austrian, and European identity; and transnational European memory discourses.