University Writing Program

Education

• PhD, English, Temple University, 2022
• MA, English, University of Colorado Denver, 2015
• BA, English, Hood College, 2012

Courses Taught

• ENC 2305: Crime & Punishment
• ENC 3254: Professional Writing in the Disciplines (Nature Writing; Writing in Environmental Science; Writing in Public Health)

Pedagogical Interests

Writing in the disciplines, writing in the humanities, health and science writing, public-facing writing, writing and tutoring pedagogy

Research Interests

Victorian literature, health humanities, history of science and psychology, sensation fiction, novel and narrative theory

Personal Interests

Spending time with family, backpacking and being outdoors, lacrosse, reading obscure Victorian novels, trying new restaurants, live music

Best Writing Advice

Writing is a process, and everyone has a process for writing. Be mindful of the situations, times of day, locations, methods, and mindsets that bring out the best writer in you.

Publications

• “Grant Allen’s Final Chapter of Philistia, edited with Introduction and Notes.” Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 171-181.
• “Reading Novel Experience, Sensational Fictions, and the Impressionable Reader in M. E. Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022, pp. 355-369.
• “The Case for the Country Doctor.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Affiliate of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. January, 2021.
• “’Émile Zola and the Naturalistic School, or Realism in French Literature’ by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, edited with an Introduction and Notes.” Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 95-123.
• “Between Metaphysics and Physiology: Lewes’s Facultative Action and Eliot’s Realism of Failure.” George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, 2019, pp. 125-142.
• “Character and Life: Sociological Method in George Eliot’s Fiction.” The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain: Victorian and Edwardian Inflections. Eds. Maria K. Bachman and Albert D. Pionke. Routledge, 2019, pp. 136-153.
• “Subjective Realism and Diligent Imagination: G. H. Lewes’s Psychological Theory and George Eliot’s Impressions of Theophrastus Such.” Victorian Review, vol. 44, no. 1, 2018, pp. 197-214.