University Writing Program

Postdoctoral Associate

Education

• Ph.D. English, Boston College, 2024
• M.A. English, Georgetown University, 2018
• B.A. English, Georgetown University, 2017

Courses Taught

• ENC2305: Growing Up Globally
• ENC 3252: Writing for Strategic Communication

Pedagogical Interests

The Coming-of-Age Novel, World Literature, the Digital Humanities, Digital Writing and Rhetoric, and Multimodal Writing.

Research Interests

Personal Interests

Baseball, Swimming, Football, Comic Books and Manga, Video Games, Origami, My Dog!

Best Writing Advice

Write often. Write badly! Write when you aren't sure what you're trying to say: it's the best way to figure it out. Write about what you're passionate about, and your passion will come through.

Publications

• "Romance and Deification: The Oral Tale and the Bildungsroman Form in Conrad's Lord Jim and Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, forthcoming March 2025.
• "'dead cert for the Gold cup': Male Communities, Gambling, and Animal Life in Ulysses." The CEA Critic, forthcoming January 2025.
• "CharlesGPT: Dickens, Generative AI, and Literary Studies Now." The Mid-Atlantic Review, forthcoming 2025.
• "Midpoint Reading: Collaborative Student Annotation in the Humanities Classroom." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, forthcoming 2024.
• "Reading Eternity: Haggard's She and Immortality in the Fin-de-siècle Novel." Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47.4 (2024): 64-74.
• "I Thought Unaccountably of Fairy Tales': Jane Eyre, Form, and the Fairy Tale Bildungsroman." Brontë Studies 49.1 (2024): 38-51.
• "How Do You Do It?: AI-Generated Art and the Pedagogy of Poetry." Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 13.3 (2024): 23-32. Co-authored with Catherine Enwright.
• "Portraiture and Paratext: Meta-Ekphrasis, Subversions of the National Tale, and the Reclamation of the Imperial Gaze in The Wild Irish Girl." Literary Imagination 25.3 (2023): 359-3699.