M. Phil., Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, 1996. Assistant Professor of European Cultural Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003). Lecturer, Columbia College, Columbia University, 1997-1998, 1999-2000.

Publications include: Eastern Time: The Race to Curate the Communist Past in Germany, Documents, No. 13, 1998, Parting with a View: Wislawa Szymborska and the Work of Mourning, The Polish Review, No. 3, 1999, From the Collective to the Collection: Curating Post-Communist Germany, New Left Review, No. 237, 1999. Requiem for Communism (2003).