University Writing Program

Education

• PhD, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023
• BA, English & Psychology, Wesleyan University, 2014

Courses Taught

• ENC 2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking
• ENC 3453: Writing in the Health Professions

Pedagogical Interests

• Technical writing, undergraduate research, and service-learning projects
• Emerging technologies and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Pedagogies of care, neurodiversity, and student wellness

Research Interests

• Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
• American modernism
• Health humanities
• Cultural and ethnic studies

Personal Interests

After nearly 15 years away, I am falling back in love with my home state of Florida. I enjoy visiting the bat house at twilight, listening to the alligators of Paynes Prairie, and tracking the endless migratory birds that call this swampy land home.

Best Writing Advice

All writing is a conversation. We write in response to a text, idea, or claim and we impact all future invocations of our topic through our compositions.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “‘A Winged but Grounded Bird’: Morrison’s Mixed Treatment of Animality in The Bluest Eye.” Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies. July 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10041
• “Zora Neale Hurston in North Carolina: Drama, Education, and Contemporary Activism.” North Carolina Literary Review, no. 29, August 2020, pp. 150-163. Winner of the Paul Green Prize

Book Chapters & Encyclopedic Entries

• “Queer Adult Literature.” SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd edition, edited by Abby Goldberg, SAGE Publications, 2023. pp. 860-863.
• “A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity: My Ántonia and the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier.” The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture, edited by Lydia Cooper and Joana Conings, Routledge, November 2021, pp. 53-63.

Digital Projects

• “Inspiration, Memory, and Migration from My Ántonia to Minari.” Modernism/Modernity Visualities Blog, vol. 6, no. 3, April 2022. Co-written with Dr. Heidi Kim.