Résumé

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Education

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2024-2025

• Masters of Philosophy in Irish Writing

• Peter Irons Studentship in the School of English

• Degree Awarded with Distinction

• Recipient of Inaugural Gerald Dawe Dissertation Prize

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2020-2024

• Bachelor of Arts in German

• Certificate in Humanistic Studies

Harriton High School, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2017-2020

• International Baccalaureate (2018-2020), Diploma Score 39

• Honor Roll, Weighted GPA: 4.95

Falmouth High School, Falmouth, ME, 2016-2017

• High Honor Roll, Non-weighted GPA: 4.0

Carl-Zeiss [Math and Science] Gymnasium, Jena, Germany, 2015-2016

• Exchange student, all classes taught in German

Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, Waldkirch, Germany, 2014-2015

• Exchange student, all classes taught in German

Experience

2026 Einstein Fellow at the Einstein Forum, Caputh, DE

2025-2026 Bartender at Roache & O’Brien, Haverford, PA

2025 - Fiction and Nonfiction reader, The Wild Umbrella: Journal of Prose and Poetry

2023-2024 - Digital Archivist at Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ

June-July 2023 - Internship at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany

Academic Year 2021-2022 - Chemistry Tutor at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

2021-2023 Borrow Direct Assistant at Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ

Summer 2021 - Public Relations Writer for Freiburg University Institute for Advanced Studies, (remote due to pandemic)

Summer 2021 - Content Creation Assistant for Silva Content Solutions, (remote due to pandemic)

Bylines

“Music for the 2020s: Nass Recommends DECIDE by Djo,” Nassau Weekly, October 2, 2022

“Nothing Like Mom’s Cooking: Reflections from Professor Mommy’s Daughter,” Nassau Weekly, March 27, 2022

“20 Fun Get-to-Know-You Questions for the Start of the School Year,” co-written with Hazel Flaherty, Nassau Weekly, October 3, 2021

“What Happened to Reading for Fun? And What Can We Do About It?” XQ America Rethink Together, September 16, 2021

“A Frosh’s Guide to Thrifting in Princeton,” The Daily Princetonian, August 20, 2021

“Faces of FRIAS: Debjani Bhattacharyya,” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies website, August 14, 2021

“How to Visit Home from a Movie Theater,”Nassau Weekly, August 1, 2021

“Where can I get spicy food in Princeton?” The Daily Princetonian, May 2, 2021

“Electra’s Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Matricide,” Nassau Weekly, April 11, 2021

Theater Review, “Songs for a New World,” Cappies Production Reviews, May 12, 2020

Awards

2026 Gerald Dawe Dissertation Prize, Trinity College Dublin

2024 Book Award for Outstanding Performance in Coursework in the Princeton German Department

2022 PEN America College Level Free Expression Essay Completion

• Third Prize

2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Philadelphia Writing Project)

• Gold Key (Senior Writing Portfolio)

2019 National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar

• National Merit Commendation

2019 The Cappies - Outstanding Critic Team Member

2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Philadelphia Writing Project)

• Gold Key (Poetry), Honorable Mention (Poetry), Honorable Mention (Poetry), Honorable Mention (Fiction)

2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Philadelphia Writing Project)

• Gold Key (Poetry) (American Voices Award Nominee), Silver Key (Poetry), Silver Key (Personal Essay/Memoir), Honorable Mention (Science Fiction/Fantasy)

2017 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Writing Project at U. of Southern Maine)

• Silver Key (Personal Essay/Memoir) – Published in Maine Teen Writing 2017, USM Press

Skills & Languages