Spring 2022

I am a TA for English 173 "Science Fiction," taught by Colin Milburn.

Past Courses

Winter 2022 English 10B "Literatures in English II: 1700–1900," UC Davis, TA
Fall 2021 English 144 "Post–Civil War American Literature (1865–1900)," UC Davis, TA
Fall 2020 English 50A "Introduction to American Literature I: beginnings to 1865," CSU Sacramento, TA
Fall 2020 English 40A "Introduction to British Literature I: beginnings to 1800," CSU Sacramento, TA & Supplemental Instructor

Education

B.A. University of California, Los Angeles - 2012
M.A. California State University, Sacramento - 2021

Presentations

ASLE 2019 - “Dead Things in the Glass: Interrogating Steinbeck’s Masculine Identity Built by the Aesthetic Consumption of Nature’s and Women’s Bodies in Cannery Row”

CSUS Student Research & Creative Activity Spring Symposium 2020 - “A Somewhat Wilder Grace: Hawthorne, Humboldt, and Withstanding the Collapse of Nature into Symbol in The House of the Seven Gables”

MLA 2021 - “Broad Sunshine and Dark Obscurity: Maps, Deeds, and the Restless Spirit of Nature in Gothic Hauntings of Hawthorne’s Land in The House of the Seven Gables”

Publications

(forthcoming) The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review: “A Somewhat Wilder Grace: Hawthorne, Humboldt, and Withstanding the Collapse of Nature into Symbol in The House of the Seven Gables”

Research Interests

I research the environment, the Gothic, gender, and American cultures in 19th Century American literature—especially Nathaniel Hawthorne and New England literature—and also Hemingway, Steinbeck, California literature, and early 20th Century American literature. I have an interest in the specifics of place-making, leading me to think about regionalisms, bioregionalism, borders, nationalism, race, and other ways we tie space to identity. Running through all this are my attentions to technology—how it shapes and reacts to our understandings of ourselves and our places, from daguerreotypes to video games—and water—from oceans to rivers to fog to arid landscapes, water centers in much of my thoughts about identity and place.

Right now I’m thinking about borderlands, navigation, and, of course, water, perhaps with a particular thought to weather and storms.