EDUCATION

Masters in Business Administration, University of San Francisco

Bachelor of Arts in English, University of California, Berkeley

PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH

Medieval and early modern English literature; social networks, friendship, and fellowship; economic criticism and the market economy; science and literature.

TEACHING

• Expository Writing (University Writing Program 1)

• Introduction to Literature (English 3)

• Science Fiction (English 173 / Science and Technology Studies 173)

TEACHING ASSISTANT

• Approaches to Reading (English 42)
• Shakespeare: The Middle Works (English 117)
• Survey of American Literature (English 30)

ACADEMIC SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Graduate Student Representative, U.C. Davis Academic Senate, Undergraduate Instruction and Program Review Committee, 2009 to Present
• Co-chair, English Graduate Student Association, 2009 to 2010
  
• Co-chair, U.C. Davis Early Modern Research Cluster, 2008 to Present
• Co-organizer, U.C. Davis Graduate Student Early Modern and 18th Century Colloquium, 2009
• Representative, Graduate Student Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2008 to 2009
  
• Journal Referee, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2007 to Present

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, Lilly Library Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections, Indiana University Libraries, 2009
  
• U.C. Davis Research Fellowship, Bodleian Library and British Library, 2009
• David Noel Miller Scholarship Essay Prize, "Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the Production of Possibility," 2008

AFFILIATIONS

• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
• Modern Language Association
• Renaissance Society of America
• Shakespeare Association of America
• Sixteenth Century Society