EVENTS & NEWS
Upcoming Readings and Talks
2026
Wednesdays, March 4 & 11, 4-5 pm
A Literary and Cultural Guide to Greenwich Village
92nd Y Roundtable, NY (online course)
❧ two-session course
Saturday, January 24, 1 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Barnes & Noble
Kingston, NY
❧ book signing
Thursday, January 15, 6 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Greenwich Village Preservation Society
❧ online webinar, registration required here
2025
Saturday, December 27, 6:30 pm
A Winter Literary Salon
Bagatelle Books
Asheville, NC
❧ panel discussion
Saturday, November 29, 1 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Joseph · Beth Books
Rookwood Pavilion, Cincinnati, OH
❧ book signing
Saturday, November 15, 2:30-4:30 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Paper Trail, Rhinebeck NY
❧ book signing
Monday, September 29, 9-10:00 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Mohonk Mountain House, NY (for Mohonk guests only)
❧ evening lecture
Saturday, August 30, 2:30-4:00 pm
Walk Her Way New York City: Greenwich Village Women’s History Walk
❧ guided walk and talk, more information & sign up here
Friday, May 9, 2-4 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
❧ reading and exhibition
Thursday, April 10, 5:30 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Bard College Stevenson Library, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
❧ Faculty Reading Series
Tuesday, March 18, 6 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Malaprops, Asheville, NC
❧ reading
Tuesday, March 4, 6 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Oblong, Rhinebeck NY
❧ reading
Tuesday, February 25, 6-6:30 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Radio Kingston, For Love of the World
❧ airing live on WKNY 1490 AM | 107.9 FM and streaming live at radiokingston.org
Saturday, February 8, 5:30-7 pm
Walk Her Way New York City
Mercantile, Rhinebeck NY
❧ book launch reception
April 3, 2026
Fieldnote Fridays now comes with a monthly audio Fieldnote--something to listen to on your next walk.
March 4 & 11, 2026
Had a lovely time taking participants on two virtual walks through Greenwich Village for "A Literary and Cultural Guide to Greenwich Village" hosted by the 92nd Y Roundtable.
December 31, 2025
What a wonderful year with this 2025 publication. Events are continuing into 2026, so please sign up for my newsletter or follow me on Instagram.
December 27, 2025
I hosted and moderated the first Bagatelle Winter Literary Salon in Asheville, NC; organized by Buncombe County Library System and Gold Leaf Literary
November 29, 2025
Had a really wonderful Saturday at Joseph-Beth in Cincinnati, Ohio, signing books! Thank you for having me.
November 15, 2025
Always love being at Paper Trail in Rhinebeck, New York.
October 17, 2025
I led a walk to the Bard College Cemetery and Hannah Arendt's grave as part of the annual Hannah Arendt Center conference. More information can be found here.
October 17, 2025
At the WMAC Roundtable hosted by Joe Donahue during the annual Hannah Arendt Conference at Bard College in New York. You can listen to it here.
September 29, 2025
I was invited to Mohonk Mountain House in New York to give a presentation on Walk Her Way and the women of Greenwich Village.
September 18, 2025
Walk Her Way has Merch! We designed a collection of totes—perfect for your stroll through NYC, or wherever your next walk takes you. Check out our store here!
September, 2025
I’m thrilled to have joined the Board of Mohonk Consultations, based at Mohonk Mountain House. More information can be found here.
September 15, 2025
Today, the new Hannah Arendt Yearbookwas released, published by De Gruyter. I am honored to have served as managing editor. More information can be found here.
July 2025
Announcement: Join me for Walk Her Way New York City: Greenwich Village Women’s History Walk on Saturday, August 30th! Find more information and sign up here
June 2025
The Nature Walk Program at the Red Hook Public Library in New York is over but I continue to offer community walks. Find the full schedule here.
May 9, 2025
Just had a reading with Walk Her Way at Montgomery Place in New York. The book is available everywhere books are sold.
April 6, 2025
I’m now on Substack! Rooted in walking, Fieldnote Fridays arrives in your inbox once a week. I hope you’ll join me. Subscribe for free and walk along here.
March 18, 2025
We will be at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, NC with Walk Her Way tonight!
February 8, 2025
We had a book launch reception at Rhinebeck Mercantile. More about the event can be read in our Walk Her Way newsletter here
February 4, 2025
Walk Her Way is now available online and in stores across the United States, Great Britain, and Australia!
January 1, 2025
Thrilled to have been named the 2025 Ascienzo Naturalist-in-Residence by the Red Hook Public Library. I will start in my new role in March.
November 26, 2024
I hosted a session for the Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y in New York City on courage and the freedom to write.
October 26, 2024
Talk at Upstream Gallery "The Language of Landscape: Nature, Art, Imagination," Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
October 18, 2024
As part of our annual Arendt Conference, I led a campus walk to an Arendt exhibit I co-curated at the Bard library and to the cemetery where Hannah Arendt is buried.
October 17, 2024
Our annual Hannah Arendt Conference -- this year on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism -- just took place and all sessions from both days can be watched here; pictured is my Q&A with Sebastian Junger
August 2024
If you are interested in the history of the Hudson River Valley, here's an overview of resources (books, museums, organizations, etc.).
July 7, 2024
Panel discussion "Choosing a Mother Tongue: On Language and Translation;" Alpine Fellowship, Tuscany in Italy
more information here
July 1, 2024
In addition to my work at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, I am now a Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and the Humanities at Bard.
June 2024
"Walk Her Way New York City," our illustrated walking guide to the history of women in New York, will be published by Hardie Grant in February 2025
March 21st, 2024
Kaitlyn and I are back in New York City working on our travel guide about women's history in NYC. We'll have some exciting news to share soon
February 1st, 2024
My translation on startups in India for brand eins magazine just came out. It’s part 2 of a big series on India and the massive transformations the country is currently experiencing. Read it here
October 13th, 2023
For our annual Hannah Arendt conference, I had the honor to speak with Ann Lauterbach about poetry and friendship. You can watch the live stream of the two-day conference here. Photo: Karl Rabe
October 1st, 2023
I'm currently working on pieces for an exhibit. More about my paintings can be found here
September 14th, 2023
At the Hannah Arendt Center, we just launched a new podcast. Check it out here
July 1st, 2023
I'm the new Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. More about the Center's work can be found here
May 25th, 2023
The Spring semester is coming to an end and I sent out another newsletter – you can read it here. Happy beginning to the summer!
April 30th, 2023
Out now! Order it here
April 2nd, 2023
I wrote the "Quote of the Week" for the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College: Arendt and Translation: Thought, Language, Poetry. You can read it here
March 23rd, 2023
Just sent out a Spring newsletter, you can read it here
February 1st, 2023
A painting of mine became the cover of my book; "Natur und Nation. Landschaft als Ausdruck nationaler Identität im 19. Jahrhundert -- der Rhein und der Hudson River" will come out on April 30th
January 22nd, 2023
I just sent out a newsletter, you can read it here
January 9th, 2023
Kaitlyn and I met in New York City to finish the manuscript for our travel guide on women's history in NYC.
December 2022
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November 16th, 2022
"The Language of Landscape: Literary Translation in Comparative Context" -- talk, hosted by the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative | more info here
August 26th, 2022
My dissertation is under contract with Königshausen & Neumann and will get published in the spring of 2023
July 2022
I defended my dissertation at the University of Munich (German Literature, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hanuschek) and am now preparing it for publication
May 2022
I will be teaching a new undergraduate course for Bard College in the fall of 2022. More information can be found here
April 8th, 2022
New prints from selected paintings are now available
February 28th, 2022
New Fundraiser for "United Help Ukraine", prints are now available
February 22nd, 2022
My dissertation is finished: "Nature and Nation. Landscape as an Expression of National Identity. The Rhine in Germany and the Hudson River in the US -- A Literary Comparison"; in German, Comparative Literature/LMU Munich
June 18th, 2021
New show "Summertime" at the Tivoli Artists Gallery in collaboration with the Woodstock School of Art. It runs from June 18th to July 18th -- 60 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, more info here
June 5th, 2021
Text for New York artist Melora Kuhn's new exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Leipzig. Read it here
Melora Kuhn: "Tales from the Dark", June 5th - July 10th, 2021
March 17th, 2021
Interview with Tivoli Artists Gallery, New York. Read it here
Winter/Spring 2021
Feature of my art in the Magazine FORUM, Bonn, Germany
September 2020
My essay for Amor Mundi, Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College: "On the publication of the anthology Denkräume: Hannah Arendt’s spaces of thinking and on ours today". Read it here
September 1st, 2020
Interview on the publication of "Denkräume" with Andrea Gerk for “Lesart”, Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Read more and listen here
August 2020
Member of the Tivoli Artists Gallery in New York
July 2020
Publication of my essay for the Hannah Arendt Journal of Bard College: "Arendt, Hölderlin, and their perception of Schicksal. Hölderlinian elements in Arendt’s thinking and the messianic notion of revolution." Volume VIII, p. 122-135
July 20th, 2020
New book "Denkräume. Von Orten und Ideen", an anthology on spaces of thinking, out now! Published by Rowohlt. Check it out here. Edited with S. Jung and published in German
May 2020
First episode for Women Imprint's new podcast "Portrait Series" out now! I speak with Paris-based writer and scholar Iman Humaydan about her work, the status of women in Lebanon and in France, and writing in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn more here
February 2020
Publication of "Natur als Kunst. Christoph Heilmann und seine Sammlung." In: FORUM. Magazine for scholarship holders of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation [exhibition at Lenbachhaus, Munich]
(print)
November 2019
New article "Hannah Arendt and World War I: On Statelessness and the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes" for "Amor Mundi" at Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College. Read the article here
July 2019
One-month writers’ residency Carrascal del Obispo, Salamanca, Spain for my second novel
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