EDUCATION
Tufts University
PhD in English Literature, expected completion 2025
University of Alabama
M.A. in English Literature, 2021
B.A. summa cum laude, Honors College, 2019
Major: English and History
Minor: German
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Undergraduate Student in Study Abroad Program, Spring 2018
English and History
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
University of Alabama Graduate Student Council Fellowship award, 2019
UA College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Undergraduate Scholar Award, 2019
Lee David and Florence Weinberg Black Scholarship Award in History, 2019 and 2017
Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society 2017-
Content Editor and Ambassador for Dewpoint Literary Journal 2018-2019
Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society 2018-
Seth Corinne H. Brooks Memorial Scholarship, 2017
University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship, 2015
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT
North American Society for Study of Romanticism
Co-Chair of NASSR Graduate Student Caucus, 2020 - present
Co-Editor of Quarterly NGSC Online Journal and Blog Series, 2020 - present
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
North American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
British Association of Romantic Studies
Modern Language Association
PUBLICATIONS
“Germanic Cacophony as a Sonic Signal of Deceit in Lolita." The Explicator, volume 79, issue 1-2, 2021, pp. 56-59.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Reading the Body: Lady Delacour’s Theatrical Knowledge of Affect and Desire in Belinda.” NEASECS/CSECS/ECSSS Joint Conference, University of Ottawa. 2022
“Complicity and Corpses: Redefining Guilt and Absolution through Galvanic Resurrection in Frankenstein.” Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium. University of Alabama. 2020
“Picking up the Pieces: Rebuilding Women as More than a Womb through Personal Narratives.” Social Media Symposium. University of Worcester. Worcester, England. 2019
“Mind and Matter: The Necessitarian Interchange of Imagination and Power in Percy Shelley's ‘Mont Blanc.’” English Honors Thesis Symposium, University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2019
“The Satire of Renaissance Humanism in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2017
“The Satire of Renaissance Humanism in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” Hudson Strode Graduate Student Conference, University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2016
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
First Year Writing Instructor of Record
University of Alabama, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Breakthrough Collaborative Teaching Fellow
Writing Teaching Fellow, Birmingham, AL 2018
Reading Teaching Fellow, Denver, CO 2016
SYMPOSIUMS ORGANIZED
“Department of English’s Honors Thesis Symposium.” Symposium presenting the finished honors theses completed by senior English majors at the University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2019
UNIVERSITY SERVICES AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
English Majors and Minors Association, University of Alabama
Founding Events Coordinator, 2016
New College Review Magazine, University of Alabama
Copy Editor and Writer, 2016-2017
Crimson Club Gymnastics, University of Alabama
President, 2018
Founding Vice President, 2016-2017
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Union Representative for the Tufts English Graduate Organization, present
English Majors and Minors Association Community Projects 2017-2019
Writing Workshop at Matthews Elementary, Northport, AL
Library Assistance at Matthews Elementary, Northport, AL
High School Mentor at Hillcrest High School, Tuscaloosa, AL 2015
LANGUAGES
German: good, basic speaking and reading proficiency
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
“The Catacombs.” New College Review, 2017 Issue, p. 41-45.
“The Kind of Kids Jesus Likes.” New College Review, 2017 Issue, p. 60-65