Jennifer is a seventh year graduate student in the German department. She received her B.A. (summa cum laude) from the Gallatin School at New York University in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration on German literature, continental philosophy, and applied arts. She received her M.A. in 2005 here at Berkeley. Her areas of interest include German intellectual history and hermeneutics; Baroque poetics; fate, free will, and the future; the history and culture of science and its relation to German literature and film. In May of 2007 she passed her qualifying examination for the doctoral degree. In the fall of 2008 she took part in the PhD Network "Das Wissen der Literatur" at the Humboldt Universitaet in Berlin. This year she continues research on her dissertation project, "Rereading the Stars: Invocations of Early Modern Science and Magic in Early Twentieth Century German Culture."

In addition to this, Jennifer is passionate about the world of scholarly publishing. She was the managing editor and website designer for the 2006 issue of TRANSIT, the first online journal in German Studies dedicated to questions of travel, mobility, and multinationalism in the German-speaking world. Between January 2007 and December 2009 she worked as an editorial assistant for Representations, a leading interdisciplinary journal of the humanities.