I am the Thomas Brown Assistant Professor in Polish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. I am a comparatist working on twentieth-century literature and performance art from Poland, Italy, and the United States. My research centers around issues of failure, visuality, and memory. My book project explores these themes in mid-twentieth century literature, performance, and film. Over the past decade, I have taught literature, film, theory, and language classes ranging from lower level undergraduate to postgraduate seminars.