Assistant Instructional Professor
University Writing Program
2215 Turlington Hall
PO Box 112020
Gainesville, FL 32611-2020
Education
PhD, English, University of Connecticut, 2019
MA, Welsh & Celtic Studies, Cardiff University, 2017
MA, English, University of Connecticut, 2013
BA, English and History, University of Miami, 2011
Courses Taught
- ENC 1101: Expository and Argumentative Writing
- ENC 1102: Argument and Persuasion
- ENC 3246: Professional Communication for Engineers
- ENC 3254: Writing in the Disciplines
- ENC 3254: Writing in the Humanities
- ENC 3254: Writing in International Affairs
- ENC 3453: Writing in the Health Professions
- ENC 3465: Writing in the Law
- IDS 4940: International Internship
Pedagogical Interests
Experiential Learning, International Education, Writing in the Disciplines, Active & Public-Facing Writing, Human Rights Writing
Research Interests
Welsh Literature, Long Nineteenth-Century British Studies, Cultural Materialism, Religious Studies, Translation Studies
Personal Interests
Polyphony, Peregrination, Lucubration, Entelechy
Best Writing Advice
Write as if you’re sharing or preserving someone or something else’s story, and don’t count on remembering a good idea if you don’t write it down.
Publications
- “On Nineteenth-Century Welsh Literacies and the Reports of the Commissioners of Enquiry into the State of Education in Wales (the ‘Blue Books’), 1847,” BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History (2019).
- “‘A true and patriotic band!’: Welsh Anglican Resistance to a Colonial Victorian Church,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 88.4 (2019): 955-77. Winner of 2018 Sidney E. Mead Prize.
- “Merthyr at 188: What Could be Romantic Wales?” Keats-Shelley Journal 68 (2020): 131-32, special issue “200 Years, 50 Voices,” edited by Jonathan Mulrooney.
- “Wales and the East in the Illustrations to Eleanor Sleath’s Glenowen: or The Fairy Palace (1815).” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 46.1 (2021): 73-92, special issue edited by Sandro Jung.
- “‘Uncertain notice’: Unearthing Wales in William Wordsworth’s ‘Simon Lee’ and ‘Tintern Abbey.’” International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (forthcoming, 2022).
- “Ann Griffiths (1776-1805), the Seiat, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” Religion & Literature (forthcoming, 2023)