Julia Ng is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies and German, with an emphasis on Critical Theory. She received her B.A. and M.A. in German and Comparative Literature from UCLA, and studied at the Humboldt and Freie Universities in Berlin before arriving at Northwestern. She has also studied at the University of Vienna and the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and worked as editor for a literary publisher and as freelance journalist in her hometown of Hong Kong. Her research interests include literary theory, continental philosophy, architectural and urban theory, the "sacred" in poetry and the ornament in literature and architecture. She is currently working on a dissertation project on the triangulation of architecture, literature, applied mathematics and the formation of political communities in early modern Northern Europe and early 19th century Germany. She is an awardee of a DAAD scholarship for doctoral studies, and has published on contemporary architectural theory as well as translations.