About
Kelsi is a PhD candidate in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation uses an ecocritical lens, along with language from humanistic geography, to assess how spatiality is imagined and constructed in German regional literature. Her research looks specifically at temporary attachments and precarious environments in which life has been disrupted by environmental and economic changes.
She recently 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 Alamanya Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop.
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.
