Publications
Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865-1930, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, April 2023
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2019
Dissertation: “Gilded Chains: Global Economies and Gendered Arts in US Fiction, 1865–1930.”
This dissertation argues that commodity representations negotiate the tensions inherent in an economic imperial project in American novels by Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frank Norris, and W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.
Dissertation committee: Professor Laura Doyle (chair), Professor Randall Knoper, Professor Asha Nadkarni, and Professor Marla Miller
M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, University of Central Florida, 2010
B.A. in English and Art, Phi Beta Kappa with Honors, magna cum laude, Furman University, 2007
HONORS AND AWARDS
Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Fellowship, Short-term project on Empire of Cotton, Smith College, Spring 2016
Dissertation Fellowship, UMass Amherst, Spring 2016
Mellon Sawyer Ph.D. Fellow, UMass Amherst, 2015–16
Dissertation Fellowship, UMass Amherst, Summer 2015
Futures of American Studies Institute Scholarship, UMass Amherst, 2014
LeeAnne Smith White Prize for best graduate essay in American Studies, UMass Amherst, 2013.
English Department Travel Award, UMass Amherst, 2012, 2015, 2016
Provost’s Fellowship, University of Central Florida, 2008
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
“Unsettling Empire: Material Culture and the Global Economy in Nineteenth-Century Literature.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. State College, Pennsylvania, March 17-20, 2016.
Papers Presented
“Liberty was Trembling: The Unsettling Inter-Imperiality of the North American Fur Trade in Woolson’s Anne.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. State College, Pennsylvania, March 17-20, 2016.
“Looking ‘among the ships bound for India’: Louisa May Alcott’s Conflicted Orientalism in Little Women.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Austin, Texas, January 7–10, 2016.
“‘A Great Acquisition’: Speculating on Liminal Lives and Transnational Gold in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference 2015: Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 4–8, 2015.
“Louisa May Alcott’s Transcontinental Sheets and Political Bonnets: Reconciling Domestic Economies with Global Trade Relationships in Little Women.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference: Material Cultures/Material Worlds. Boston, Massachusetts, March 26–28, 2015.
“Plotting Domestic Maneuvers through Inter-Imperial Competition: Woolson’s Anne and the Transnational Fur Trade.” Constance Fenimore Woolson Society Conference. Washington, D.C., February 19–21, 2015.
“The Inter-Imperial Cultural Work of Domestic Commodities in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” The Futures of American Studies Institute: State(s) of American Studies. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 16–22, 2014.
“Citizens of a Cotton and Cochineal Nation: Global Commodities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference 2012: Citizenship and Belonging. Denver, Colorado, October 10–13, 2012.
“Tunnel Vision: A Journey Toward Female Subjectivity in Edith Johnstone's A Sunless Heart.” Journeys: 18th Annual British Women Writers Conference. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, April 8–11, 2010.
“Gazing Women ‘Becoming’ Objects: The Female Artist Performs Subjectivity in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis.” Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century: 31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, March 11–13, 2010.
“Interrupted Subjectivity and the Precession of the Gothic in Northanger Abbey.” 20th Anniversary Aphra Behn & Women in the Arts Conference. Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, November 5–7, 2009.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
English Teacher, Middlesex School, 2021–present
Upper School English Teacher, Kingswood Oxford School, 2016–2021
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst, fall 2011–fall 2015
Sole Instructor:
ENG131, Society and Literature: “‘Things, Things, Things’: Literary Consumerism in a Global Context from the Gilded Age to the Present,” spring 2015
ENGLWRIT112: College Writing, 8 sections, 2011–2015
Teaching Assistant:
ENG319: Representing the Holocaust, fall 2013, fall 2014
ENG132: Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture, spring 2014
Visiting Instructor, University of Central Florida, fall 2010–fall 2011
Sole Instructor:
ENC1101: Composition I, 5 sections
ENC1102: Composition II, 6 sections
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Central Florida, fall 2009–spring 2010
Sole Instructor:
ENC1101: Composition I, 2 sections
ENC1102: Composition II, 2 sections
Instructor of English and Journalism, The Geneva School, fall 2007–spring 2010
SERVICE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Coordinator, Mellon Sawyer Seminar, World Studies Interdisciplinary Project, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, fall 2014–present.
“U.S. Art, Economy, and Empire in Literary Representations of Commodities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” lightning talk at the English Graduate Organization’s colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, fall 2014.
Portfolio Assessment Committee, UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric, spring 2011.
“Teaching Craft in a Writing about Writing Composition Classroom,” co-led workshop for the UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric, spring 2011.
“Digital Tools for the Writing Classroom,” co-led workshop for the UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric, spring 2011.
“Designing Effective Assignments,” co-presented at UCF Graduate Teaching Associate orientation, fall 2010.
“Drafting a Literature Review: Classroom Activities,” best practices poster session at UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric orientation, fall 2010.
“Motivating Students to Write,” best practices poster session at UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric orientation, fall 2009.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
LANGUAGE FACILITY
French
Speaking: Intermediate
Reading: Translation Proficient