I began my career as a professor of German Studies, working primarily on representations of race and gender in both the German colonial campaign in Africa and in the Third Reich. I also researched and taught contemporary German culture, with an emphasis on theory and film. When I relocated from the University of California in Irvine to Portland State University to be with my husband, however, I moved from the German Department to the English Department. In the intervening years, my research interests have followed the shift in the canon that now occupies my teaching, shifting to more English-language textual objects. My recent interests include sexuality studies; I have published two articles on sadomasochism since my arrival at the University of Arizona. I am currently working on a book on critical finance studies. Two other articles that have appeared since I came to Tucson treat this topic: one focuses on the role of student debt in reshaping the contemporary classroom while the other argues that lenders and financial agents have come to occupy a position of religious authority in today's social order. I am currently working on a book on the latter topic, entitled Forgive Us Our Debts: Economic Theology in the Age of Finance Capital. Since my arrival in Tucson, I have completed two chapters of that project.