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Research Interests

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

Teaching

Associate Instructor

Department of English

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

University Writing Program

• UWP 001: Expository Writing 

Teaching Assistant

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

Educational Development

UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness

• Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow

Department of English

• Teaching Assistant Consultant

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

Academic Service

MLA Representative, English Graduate Student Association, 2020–2021

Scholar Symposium Co-Chair, English Graduate Student Association, 2018–2019

Graduate Student Association English Department Representative, 2016–2017

Education

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

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