I am currently a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. My interests include: late eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature (especially poetry) and its discursive imbrication with the German philosophical tradition; moments of cross-pollination between the history of philology and the history of science; and literary theory. I have published on the linguist Roman Jakobson and the poets Rilke and Goethe, with forthcoming articles on Schiller and Celan. My dissertation reconstructs how Goethe’s poetic science of morphology (first developed with regard to vegetal growth and the skeletal structure of animals) shaped the pre-disciplinary emergence of literary criticism around 1800, above all the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt and August Wilhelm Schlegel.