Originally from New Zealand, she has lived in worked in Germany for fifteen years.

Her research interests include Bertolt Brecht, exile literature, post- and decolonial literature, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history, in particular that of German colonialism, the Weimar Republic, World War II and the postwar period.

She has over a decade’s experience translating and copyediting texts for academics, museums, NGOs, theatre practitioners and business clients.