Biography:
Research Interests
16th- and 17th-century British literature; disability studies; blindness; sexual violence; labor; constructions of the human
Education
M.A., Wake Forest University
B.A., University of Dayton
TEACHING at UC Davis
Instructor
UWP 1: Fall 2021––Spring 2023
ENL 3: Fall 2023––Current
TA
ENL 52: Pop Culture Shakespeare––Spring 2021
ENL 10A Literatures in English I: to 1700–– Winter 2021
ENL 186: Literature, Race, Sexuality, & Gender–– Fall 2020
Honors and Awards
H. Broadus Jones M.A. Student Award for Excellence in English, Wake Forest University 2020
Richter Research Grant recipient, Wake Forest University 2019
Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship, University of Dayton 2017
Experience
Graduate Assistant, Wake Forest University Writing Center, 2018-2020
Reading and Rhetoric Instructor, Hamilton Education, 2019
Student Intern, Health and Wellness Promotions, University of Dayton, 2016-2018
Department of Sociology Research Fellow, University of Dayton, 2017
Publications
Review of Prince Hamlet, dir. Ravi Jain, Presented by Why Not Theatre. The Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol 41, 1. Spring 2023.
Review of Doctor Faustus, dir. Emily Ingram and Fergus Rattigan, Presented by The Show Must Go On(line). The Marlowe Society of America Newsletter, Fall 2021 issue.
“Limitless.” The Communicator. 2015
“Feel the Beat: Connecting Through Music and Advocating for CART.” Volta Voices. July-Aug. 2014.
Presentations
"Prostheticizing Props: Performing Amputation in Titus Andronicus"
Presented at "Intimate Objects: a Performance Studies Miniconference," UC Davis, 2021.
“Sure Some Tereus Hath Deflowered Thee:” Blindness, Rape’s Disempowerment, and Social Disability
Presented at “The Freak and its Discontents: An Interdisciplinary Conference”
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
Presented at the Southeastern Renaissance Conference
Raleigh, North Carolina, 2019
“Reading as Prevention: Pedagogy of Sexual Violence”
Presented at the annual Association of English Graduate Students
North Carolina State University, 2019
Presented at the annual College English Association of Ohio
Findlay University, 2019
Papers and Research Projects
MA Thesis: “‘Numbed And Mortified:’ Labor, Empathy, and Acquired Disability In King Lear And Titus Andronicus”
Archival research of the “Poor Laws,” Parliamentary Archives, London, funded by the Richter Research Grant
“Reading as Prevention: Pedagogy of Sexual Violence”
“‘No’ is a Complete Sentence:” Rejection in Jane Austen’s Novels as a Matter of Consent