Erin graduated from UT in December 2007 with a German major and art history minor. She completed a departmental honors thesis about the expressionist works of Oskar Kokoschka in the Harry Ransom Center, and she is a DJ on “Es klingt wie Deutsch,” the university's weekly German radio program on KVRX. In her spare time, she enjoys basically anything that will make her laugh, such as cooking large hunks of meat for her friends, losing at racquetball, playing hug-o-war and deciphering German dialects.