I have been a Fulbright Fellow in Freiburg, Germany, a tenured philosophy professor at a women’s liberal arts college, an English professor at an HBCU, and a professor of Comparative Literature in Mainz and Aachen, Germany. Most recently, at Columbia College in South Carolina, I grew the Philosophy and Gender Studies programs by creating minors in Ethics and Girls Studies. I was a co-founder of Girls Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Undergraduate Research. My academic writing includes publications on the poet Rilke, transgender identity in the work of Djuna Barnes, theories of translation, and on the intersection of philosophies of embodiment and the practice of yoga as a means of empowering middle school girls. During a brief stint in Alabama, I was an editor at Hatton Cross Steampunk Publishing. While living in Pittsburgh for seventeen months, I served as Director of Outreach for Girls Write Pittsburgh, a non-profit founded to inspire teen girls to find their voices through writing.
