Assistant Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Writing about literary theory, philosophy, and philology. Author of "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) and "Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit" (Sonderzahl 2024). Editor of "Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy" (Bloomsbury 2022) and "Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology" (SUNY 2023).