Biography:
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis Davis, CA
Ph.D. in English Literature Anticipated August 2023
Dissertation: Medieval Travel and the Speculative (Re)Presentation of Race and Capital
Committee: Seeta Chaganti (Chair), Mark Jerng, Matthew Vernon, Joshua Clover
Hunter College New York, NY
B.A. English Literature; Minor in Cultural Anthropology June 2016
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: “Othello: The Native Cannibal and the Eurocannibal”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medieval Literature, Racial Capitalism, Geography, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature, Travel Narratives, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Monstrosity and Marginality, Cannibalism, Genre, Global Waste Trade
PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant Davis, CA
ENL 117: Early Shakespeare and the Theater (with Professor Gina Bloom, 2 discussion sections) Fall 2017
ENL 113B: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (with Professor Claire Waters, 2 discussion sections) Winter 2018
ENL 186: Literature, Gender, and Sexuality (with Professor Elizabeth Freeman) Spring 2018
GER 011: Travel and the Modern World (with Professor Chunjie Zhang) Spring 2020
HIS 190A: Middle East 600-1000 (with Professor Ali Anooshahr) Fall 2020
CLA 010: Greek Mythology (with Professor Byron MacDougall) Spring 2021
CLA 020: Pompeii (with Professor Melissa Stem) Fall 2021
Associate Instructor Davis, CA
UWP 1: Expository Writing Fall 2018
UWP 1: Academic Literacies Winter 2019-Summer 2020
ENL 3: Introduction to Literature (remote) Fall 2020-Summer 2021
ENL 3: Introduction to Literature Fall -Spring 2021
ENL 3A: Writer’s Workshop Winter -Spring 2022
Pedagogical Training Davis, CA
UWP 390: Theory and Practice of University-Level Composition Instruction Spring 2018
UWP 392: Teaching Composition Fall 2018
ENL 393: Teaching Literature and Composition Spring 2020
ENL 298: Teaching Composition Fall 2020
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship 2022-2023
Donald R. Howard Travel Scholarship Summer 2022
James and Roberta Woodress Endowed Fund Grant for International Research Summer 2022
MLA Convention Grant Fall 2021
The Mellon Research Initiative on Racial Capitalism Summer Fellowship Summer 2020
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant November 2018
English Department Fellowship 2017-2018
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES
New Chaucer Society
The Book of Sir John Mandeville and the Critics: “Google Mappaemundi” July 2022
Mandeville 700 at King’s College
“Mandeville’s Raciailizing Prism” June 2022
Modern Language Association
Racial Capitalism and the Middle Ages: “Medieval Compendia and Racial Capitalism” January 2022
The Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism at UC Davis April 2021
Respondent to Wan-Chuan Kao’s “In the Lap of Whiteness”