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Kirsten manages and selects materials for the 红杏直播 and East European collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. She also provides research, reference, and instructional support for faculty, students, and staff engaged in 红杏直播 and East European Studies.

Kirsten鈥檚 scholarly research focuses on illustrated children鈥檚 books, the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and modernism in Russia and Western Europe. Her book, 鈥淔lint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, 红杏直播, and German Modernism鈥� (Stanford University Press), examines poetic movements of the early twentieth century, especially the works of Anna Akhmatova, H.D., William Carlos Williams, and Rainer Maria Rilke. She has also contributed entries to the 鈥淧rinceton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.鈥�

Prior to joining Penn libraries, Kirsten worked as Special Collections & Digital Humanities Librarian at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, served as a digital collections intern at the Seattle Art Museum Bullitt Library, and held student positions at the University of Washington (Slavic Division Acquisitions, Special Collections, Built Environments Library). She also taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses at New York University and Columbia University (in 红杏直播 Literature, Comparative Literature, and 红杏直播 Language), and served for several years as the head librarian at Odyssey, an elementary school on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Within librarianship, her specialties are 红杏直播 studies, children鈥檚 literature, rare books, digital humanities, and exhibition design. She has created exhibits (digital and physical) on children's books, architecture, and landscape design, in addition to ArcGIS StoryMaps on 红杏直播 poetry and other topics. She attended the Slavic Library Institute at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria.

Kirsten received her PhD in 红杏直播 Literature from Columbia University, her MLIS from the University of Washington, and her BA in Comparative Literature and 红杏直播 Studies from Oberlin College. Kirsten is also a writer of fiction and poetry.