Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English, University of Iowa, ABD
Dissertation: The “New Person”: Radical Desire in British Literature, 1880–1930
Defending on April 22, 2024 
Supervised by Dr. Florence Boos
M.A. in English, University of Iowa, 2022
M.A. in English, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019
  Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019
B.A. in English, Metropolitan State University, 2016 

GRADUATE TEACHING
University of Iowa (2 sections; 17 total students)
English 6950: Foundations of the English Major, Instructor, Fall 2023 (1 section; 6 total students)
  Co-Instructor: Dr. Stephen Voyce, Professor of English
Rhetoric 5350: Teaching Rhetoric, Instructor, Fall 2021 (1 section; 11 total students)
  Co-Instructor: Dr. Katlyn O’Shaughnessy, Lecturer in Rhetoric 

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
University of Iowa (8 sections; 179 total students)
General Education Literature, Primary Instructor, Fall 2022 (1 section; 25 total students)
General Education Rhetoric, Primary Instructor, Fall 2020–Spring 2022 (5 sections; 106 total students)
Foundations of the English Major, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2019¬–Spring 2020 (2 sections; 48 total students)
University of Colorado Boulder (9 sections; 186 total students)
Introduction to Feminist Studies, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2018 (6 sections; 120 total students)
Modern and Contemporary Literature for Non-Majors, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2018 (3 sections; 66 total students) 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
University of Iowa
Graduate Research Fellow, Department of English, Fall 2023–Spring 2024
  Assistant to Dr. Garrett Stewart, Professor of English (copyedited Attention Spans, forthcoming)
University of Colorado Boulder
Research Assistant, Department of English, Summer 2018
  Assistant to Dr. John Stevenson, Professor of English 

REFEREED ARTICLES
“Mona Maclean, Ambiguously Amorous,” Victoriographies, Accepted—Forthcoming in 14.2, July 2024
“‘An Echo from a Larger Lyre’: The Quare Poetics of Amy Levy’s ‘In a Minor Key’,” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2023), Under review, ms. 18 pp. 

PUBLIC-FACING PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Blogs 
"Another ‘Other’ Victorian: Adelaide Anne Procter’s Foucauldian Silence,” Tell Magazine, ed. Lina-Maria Murillo, 2023
Articles
"The Band's Role on Tour '74 (by Annie Burkhart)," Flagging Down the Double E’s, 25 January 2024 (readership of over 10,000)
Audio Appearances
“Jawbone with Annie Burkhart,” The Band: A History, 11 December 2023.
“#266: ‘Down the Highway,’” Pod Dylan: A Riot in More Ways Than One, 24 June 2023.
“Moondog Matinee Roundtable,” The Band: A History, 12 June 2023.  

AWARDS
Teaching Awards
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Council on Teaching, University of Iowa, 2022 (1 of 28 awarded across University of Iowa)
Fellowships and Scholarships
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2024
Edwin Ford Piper Memorial Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2023 (for advancing the causes of women)
Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2023
Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2019
Travel Awards
English Department Travel Award, University of Iowa, 2023 
Presentation Travel Award, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2023 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“‘An Echo from a Larger Lyre’: Amy Levy’s Quare Poetics in A Minor Poet.” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2024.
“Unraveling the Unthinkable: Michael Field’s Clandestine Queerness in ‘The Mummy Invokes his Soul,’” Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, Lincoln, UK, July 2023.
“Queer Queens: Michael Field’s Lesbian Longings in the Kingdom of the Dead,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Topeka, KS, March 2023.
“‘You Are Not a Good Girl’: Anger and Alien Affect in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.” Women of Color Feminisms Symposium. Boulder, CO, April 2019.
“Reading R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Early Rhetoric Rejecting Fluid Identity and Bodily Transition,” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, October 2018.
“The ‘T’ Stands Alone: Examining the Intersection of Transness and Queerness in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Imogen Binnie’s Nevada,” Endnotes Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 2018. 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Graduate Organizer, Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Spring 2024
Organizer, Craft Culture Critique Conference, University of Iowa, Fall 2023–Spring 2024
Graduate Program Assistant, GEL Program, Department of English, University of Iowa, Fall 2022
Professional Development Practicum Co-Leader, Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa, Fall 2021
Graduate Coordinator, Conversation Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2021

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
Victorian Popular Fiction Association