Sophie is a translator and writer specializing in the literature of the Weimar Republic. She is the English translator of Gabriele Tergit, and her translation of Käsebier Takes Berlin (NYRB/Pushkin Press) was shortlisted for the 2021 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize awarded by the Society of Authors (UK). Sophie is currently a 2023-2024 Translation Fellow of the National Endowment of the Arts (US), and working on a forthcoming translation of Tergit’s 900-page magnum opus Effingers (NYRB/Pushkin Press).
Sophie received her PhD in German Literature from Yale University in 2023 with a dissertation entitled The Shape of Things: Reading Culture through Form in the Weimar Republic. Her academic work investigates how form became an important philosophical and aesthetic category in late nineteenth-century Germany and birthed a genre of cultural criticism among the Weimar Republic avant-garde. Her academic areas of specialty are cultural criticism and theory, the feuilleton of the Weimar Republic, and Neo-Kantian philosophy and formalist sociology of the early twentieth century. She is co-editor, with Karsten Olson and Ulrich Plass, of the anthology Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
Sophie currently lives and writes in Berlin, Germany.
