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Research Interests

eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry, romanticism, environmental humanities, natural theology, history of design, history of science

Teaching

Lecturer

Department of English

• ENL 149: Topics in Literature
  • Appetite, Empire, and the Consumption of Nature
• ENL 185B: Literature by Women, 1800–1900
  • Women, Health, and Monstrosity

Associate Instructor

Department of English

• ENL 045: Introductory Topics in Poetry 
  • Unruly Natures, Rambunctious Women: Poetics of Chaos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• ENL 003: Introduction to Literature

University Writing Program

• UWP 001: Expository Writing 

Teaching Assistant

Department of English

• ENL 130: British Romantic Literature 
• ENL 110B: Introduction to Modern Literary & Critical Theory 
• ENL 184: Literature and the Environment 

Educational Development

Teaching Assistant Consultant

Department of English

UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness

Fellowships

Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2021–2022

Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow, UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness, 2020–2022

Provost's First-Year Fellowship, UC Davis, 2015–2016

Education

Ph.D in English, University of California, Davis, 2023

B.A. in English Language and Literature, Rutgers University, 2014