Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in English, Boston University, May 2022
M.A. in English, University of Virginia, May 2015
B.A. in English, Classics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 2012
Selected Conference Activity
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Annual Conference, Oxford, MS
“Road (Re)Construction: Race and Southern Infrastructure in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha,” July 2022
International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland
“‘Continual changes of the thoroughfare’: Metropolitan and Modernist Transformations in Ulysses,” panel on “Joycean Streets & Urban Geography,” June 2022
Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD
“Hypercontexts and Hotels: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Formal (Infra)Structures,” March 2022
Modern Language Association, Washington DC
“‘Walking Social Services’: Mapping Multicultural Care in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, panel on “Infrastructures of Care,” January 2022 (Postponed to 2023 due to the Omicron variant)
Pacific Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, NV
"‘It will find its shape’: Networked Forms and the Semiotics of Infrastructure in The Crying of Lot 49 and Satin Island,” panel on 21st Century Literature, November 2021
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Austin, TX
“‘As if by magic’: Mediating Migration in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West,” October 2021
Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium: The Dark Cosmos of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, Virtual Conference
“Literature for the Long Emergency: Teaching Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and McCarthy’s The Road,” panel on “Faulkner’s Afterlives: Legacies, Contexts, Representations,” September 2021
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Virtual Conference
“Good Roads and Great Floods: Emergent States and States of Emergency in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying,” Migrant Ecocriticism Stream, panel on Climate Emergencies and Disasters, July 2021
Popular Culture Association, Washington DC
“Reframing Precarity: The Sites and Sights of Disaster in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange,” panel on Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes, April 2019
International James Joyce Symposium, Toronto, Canada
“‘places remember events’: Geographies of the Political and Parapolitical in ‘Cyclops’ and ‘Eumaeus,’” panel on Global Joyce, June 2017
American Literature Association, Boston, MA
“‘El-A is A-Pocalypse’: Framing Catastrophe in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange,” panel on Experimental Structures in Contemporary Fiction, May 2017
International James Joyce Symposium, London, England
“‘Dead side of the street this’: Mapping a Textual Necrogeography of Irish Politics in Joyce’s ‘Hades,’” panel on Joycean Topographies, June 2016
American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA
“Faulkner ‘went to the West Indies’: The Postcolonial Politics of Intertextuality in Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace,” co-organizer of panel “This Must Be the Place: Text, Space, and the Material World,” March 2016
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
International James Joyce Foundation Scholarship, June 2022
Graduate Writing Fellowship, Boston University, Spring 2022
Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing, Boston University, Fall 2021
Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2021
Graduate Writing Fellowship, Boston University,
Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Graduate Writing Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Thomas J. Griffis Prize, University of Virginia, May 2014