I am an award-winning historian, author, translator, and editor based in Vienna, Austria. 

 

A European by upringing and disposition, I was born in Munich, Germany in 1986 to an Irish/British father and a German mother. I attended school first in Germany and later in Belgium before completing my studies in the United Kingdom. Vienna has been my adoptive home for many years now, with a couple of years in the interim spent in the United States, predominantly in New York City. English and German are my first languages, I also speak some conversational Dutch and French, can buy a bus ticket in Spanish and Italian, and have some reading abilities in Latin, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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After a few years playing in bands and working as an English teacher, I completed a PhD in History at the University of Lancaster in 2015 and over the subsequent decade pursued a research and publishing career in the framework of various visiting positions and funding opportunities. I have published broadly in the fields of Austrian, Central European, and transatlantic history, but since 2025, I have essentially retired from professional academic work, though I continue to serve on the Academic Advisory Board of the Austrian Society for the Study of Exile and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Austrian Studies. I do still pursue small research projects for fun and am otherwise dedicating more time to writing fiction, focusing mostly on the themes of most interest to me: the Gothic, the macabre, and the diabolical in Central European culture.

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For my bread and butter, I also work as a translator and copy-editor in various academic fields of the humanities and social sciences, in the museum world, and for popular publications. I have over a decade of experience working both with major institutions and individual authors, primarily across Europe and North America, and have to date translated several books, dozens of essays and articles, and around a dozen museum exhibitions and exhibition catalogues, among other formats.

 

My free time is spent with my partner and our Serbian rescue dog, Lily, and we enjoy cooking, travelling, and chasing after geese (though never catching them) while hiking bucolic landscapes near or far from home.