About
Kelsi is a PhD candidate in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. The center of her dissertation project is Vergänglichkeit, "transience", in relation to experiences of environmental or spatial precarity and loss. By engaging with works published after the threefold rise of German environmentalism, the field of ecocriticism, and humanistic geography in the latter half of the 20th century, she observes the emergence of the transient subject as a way to live with loss, change, and instability.
In 2024 she published a translation of Nava Ebrahimi's 2021 Ingeborg Bachmann Prise-winning short story Der Cousin in UC Berkeley's TRANSIT journal, along with a critical reflection. She is currently a co-coordinator for the German film series and a certificate student in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.
Kelsi received her BA in Germanic Studies and Communications from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2020, and earned her Masters in Germanic Studies from UIC in 2022.
