I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, comparative literary and cultural theory, aesthetics, and general humanities (history and practice of empathy), among other topics. I am the author most recently of The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke (Cornell UP, 2025), a cultural “para-history” of the uncanny exchanges between aesthetic empathy (Einfühlung) and interpersonal empathy in German literature, art theory, and psychological/physiological aesthetics as well as the relation of these exchanges to such present-day concerns as affect theory, “other minds,” artificial intelligence, and object-oriented ontology.