Pronouns He/Him. Virginia native entering his second year at UCD. Research interest include mid-twentieth century American poetry, specifically confessional poetry and the works of Robert Lowell, cinema and media studies with a focus on visual rhetoric, puritanical literature, and homosociality.

Academic Appointments:

English for Science and Technology (EST) – Hot Topics in Science and Technology

Upward Bound Teacher – English core teacher and Film Studies elective teacher

Teaching Assistant for GER 10 – Off with Their Heads: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimms to Walt Disney

Teaching Assistant for CTS 172 – Videogames and Culture

Teaching Assistant for ENL 010A - Literatures in English 1: to 1700.

Publications:

"Hushed Speech and Pain: McDonaugh's The Banshees of Inisherin," Cinematic Codes Review,  Vol. IIV, issue 3, 2022, pp. 46-49

Forthcoming: Diphthong Delivery: Camp and the Canadian A’ in So I Married an Axe Murderer, Quint Journal, 2023 

Education:

Ph.D. English. University of California, Davis. - anticipated graduation 2026

M.A. English. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Major in English/Minor in Film Studies. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

A.S. Liberal Arts. Northern Virginia Community College

Select Conference Presentations:

54th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (Niagara Falls 2023): "If it looks like horror: The Mechanics of Fear in Cross Genre Cinema," co-panel host with Stacey Baran. 

MLA Annual Convention (Toronto 2021):“The Influence of Robert Frost on Confessional Poet Robert Lowell,” Robert Frost Panel.

Southwest Popular American Culture Association (Albuquerque, NM. Feb-19th-22nd, 2020): "Queering and Historicizing comedic horror classic Psycho Beach Party," Film and Gender Studies Panel.