I am currently Assistant Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My interests include late 18th through 20th-century literature, culture, and philosophy, in particular lyric poetry, music, and the relationship between sound and text. I have published on Hölderlin, Goethe, and the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, with forthcoming articles on Klopstock, Rilke, and Wittgenstein. My first book, titled Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community is forthcoming with Cornell University Press's Signale Series in 2015. I have just begun extending my interests in sound and text into a project on prosody and the claims it makes about and for aesthetic experience, cognition, and embodied subjectivity.