DISSERTATION: "Extra-Domestic Ecologies: Queer Forms in Nineteenth-Century America"

COMMITTEE: Elizabeth Freeman, Michael Ziser, Hsuan Hsu, Margaret Ronda

EDUCATION:
University of California, Davis, Ph.D. student (English), 2015 – present 
University of Utah, M.A. (Environmental Humanities), 2015
Colorado College, B.A. (Philosophy), 2009

INTERESTS:
ecocriticism, environmental humanities, 19th century American literature, women's studies, queer theory, affect theory, environmental affect studies

TEACHING:

• WRGT2010, University of Utah, 2014-2015
• UWP1, UC Davis, 2017-2019
• ENL3, UC Davis, 2019-2022
• TAC, UC Davis, 2022

PUBLICATIONS:

“Thoreauvian Disappointment: Losing the Plot in The Maine Woods" ESQ, 68.4 (December 2022): 487-522.
“Thoreau, Housewife,” under review with PMLA.

“Thoreau as Women’s Writer,” Oxford Handbook of Thoreau, forthcoming 2024.

Forum on Habiba Ibrahim's Black Age

Forum on Xine Yao's Disaffected 

Forum on Brigitte Fielder's Relative Races

Review of Techno-Thoreau: Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene, by David Lombard, Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 311 (2020).

“Resisting Extinction with Thoreau’s Mystical Empiricism,” roundtable in The Concord Saunterer, vol. 26 (2019).

Review of Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau, by Branka Arsić, Configurations, 26.1 (2018).

Review of Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature, eds. Karen E. Waldron and Rob Friedman,” ISLE, 21.2 (2014).