EDUCATION
University of California, Davis
PhD in Literature, Department of English, 2015–2023.
Dissertation: “The Book of Nature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Poetry & the Poetics of Earth System Design”
Committee: Prof. Tobias Menely (Chair), Prof. Elizabeth Miller, Prof. Margaret Ronda.

Rutgers University
BA in English Language and Literature, 2010–2014.

RESEARCH FIELDS
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry, environmental humanities, romanticism, poetics, history of design, history of science, natural theology

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER PREPARATION
“William Blake’s Arks, Watercolors, and Hydro-aesthetics of Human Design”

PUBLICATIONS
“Teacher as Student: Matters of Exploration and Radical Vulnerability in the Classroom,” Exploring How We Teach: Lived Experience, Lessons, and Research for Graduate Students by Graduate Students, ed. Samantha Clem. Utah: USU Press, 2022.

with Ashley Bender, Daniella Berman, Jenny Factor, Catherine Keohane, Susannah Sanford McDaniel, Bénédicte Miyamoto, Kelly Plant, Elizabeth Porter, Karenza Sutton, and Bethany Qualls, “Continuing to #WriteWithAphra: A Year of Collegiality and Compassion,” Aphra Behn Online 11, no. 2 (2021).

TALKS AND ROUNDTABLES
”The Metabolic Muchness of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ (1862).” Modern Language Association Conference, 4–7 Jan. 2024, Philadelphia, PA.

”Solarpoetics and the Metabolic Muchness of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ (1862).” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 8–12 Jul. 2023, Portland, OR.

”The Portland Vase and the Mysterious Initiations of Erasmus Darwin's Visual Poetics.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, 9–11 Mar. 2023, St. Louis, MO.

“Hopkins and Unraveling the Gimmicks of Industrial Design.” Hopkins, Voice, and Echo: International Hopkins Conference, 23–24 Sept. 2022, online.

“Working for Good or Evil”: The Missing Magdalene in Anna Jameson’s Sacred and Legendary Art (1848).” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, 24–27 Mar. 2022, Salt Lake City, UT.

“The Gimmicks and Poetics of Geoengineering.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 26 Jul.–6 Aug. 2021, online.

 “Erasmus Darwin’s Volition and the Proliferation of Unintended Consequences.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, 5–8 Mar. 2020, Los Angeles, CA.

 “‘To read in nature’s book’: Poetry and Environment in Charlotte Smith’s Conversations Introducing Poetry.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, 8–11 Aug. 2019, Chicago, IL.

 “‘And for all this, nature is never spent’: Ecology and Design in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Posthuman Poetics.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 26–30 June 2019, Davis, CA.

 “‘Panting, Conglobing, Trembling’: Continuity and Rupture in the Spheres of Burke and Blake.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, 22–25 June 2019, Providence, RI.

Participated in Collaborative Special Seminar, “Anthropocene Historicism: Romanticism in Geologic Time.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, 11–14 Aug. 2016, Berkeley, CA.

 “A Discordant Sublime: Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetics and the Anthropocene.” EcoMaterialisms: Scales of Matter(ing) Graduate Student Conference, Inter-UC EcoMaterialisms Collective, 13–14 May 2016, Davis, CA.

INVITED TALKS
“Group Discussion Methods,” Introduction to Literature Pedagogy graduate seminar, UC Davis. (Invited by Prof. Matthew Stratton), 13 May 2022.

“Centering Student Ideas in Group Discussion,” Introduction to Literature Pedagogy graduate seminar, UC Davis. (Invited by Prof. Matthew Stratton), 14 May 2021.

“The Book of Thel and Muttering Nature,” British Romantic Literature, UC Davis. (Invited by Prof. David Simpson), 27 Oct. 2016.

REVIEW PUBLICATIONS
Review of “Melancholic Environment.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference 2019, Romantic Circles, 11 December 2019.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Davis
Associate Instructor
Spring 2023: Introductory Topics in Poetry, Department of English
Unruly Nature, Rambunctious Women: Poetics of Chaos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Fall 2019–Winter 2023: Introduction to Literature, Department of English
Fall 2018–Spring 2019: Expository Writing, University Writing Program

Teaching Assistant
Fall 2017–Spring 2018: Expository Writing, University Writing Program
Spring 2017: Literature and the Environment (with Prof. Hsuan Hsu)
Winter 2017: Introduction to Modern Literary & Critical Theory (with Prof. Kathleen Frederickson)
Fall 2016: British Romantic Literature (with Prof. David Simpson)

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
Fall 2021­–2022: Faculty Diversity Internship Participant
Peralta Community College District
Oakland, CA

Fall 2021: Teaching Assistant Consultant
UC Davis Department of English
Collaborated with faculty to create an introductory support program for incoming English TAs

2020–2022: Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow
UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness
One-on-one consultant for interdisciplinary graduate student instructors
Co-facilitator of the UC Davis TA Orientation 2020 & 2021
Co-organizer and -facilitator of multiple workshops, including:
“The Goal is the Guide: Effective Lesson Planning,” “Facilitating Small Group Activities in Remote Courses,” and “Putting Theory Into Practice: Diversity Statements”

FELLOWSHIPS
2021–2022: Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2021: Research & Archival Travel Fellowship, Department of English
2020–2022: Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellowship, Center for Educational Effectiveness, UC Davis
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022: Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, UC Davis
2020: Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship Award, UC Davis
2019: Walter & Diane Harrison Travel Fellowship, UC Davis
2015–2016: Provost’s First Year Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UC Davis

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, AND OTHER FUNDING
2018: Graduate Student Bursary, NASSR
2016: Summer Language Grant, Department of English, UC Davis
2014: Summa Cum Laude, Rutgers University
2014: Paul Robeson Scholar, Rutgers University
2014: Henry Rutgers Scholar Award, Rutgers University
2014: Janet Duncan Award, Rutgers University
inducted 2014: Phi Beta Kappa
inducted 2014: Sigma Tau Delta
2012–2014: Elizabeth Campbell Endowed Scholarship
2010–2014: Pell Grant

ACADEMIC SERVICE
2021: ASECS Roundtable Chair       
“That’s So Metal: Hardcore Heroines in the Long Eighteenth Century” organized by Bethany Qualls                     

2020–2021: MLA Representative
UC Davis English Graduate Student Association                              
Organizer of MLA Convention graduate student debrief
Co-organizer of UC Davis graduate student funding at virtual 2021 MLA Convention

2019–2020: Graduate Student Representative  
Computer, Technology, and Library Committee
UC Davis English Department

2018–2019: Scholar Symposium Co-Chair   
UC Davis English Graduate Student Association        
Co-organizer, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Conferences,” Spring 2019
Co-organizer, “Websites 101,” Winter 2019
Co-organizer, “Social Media, Networking, & You,” Fall 2018

2016–2017: English Department Graduate Student Representative
UC Davis Graduate Student Association   

OTHER WORK, VOLUNTEER, AND WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
2018­–present: Co-founder and -editor   
Neither Down Nor Feathers       
Zine and art collective                                                                      

2019–2021: Copy editor 
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy                                        

Summer 2019: Workshop fellow  
Los Angeles Review of Books Publication Workshop                                                        

2016–2017: Volunteer researcher     
The John Muir Land Trust          

2013–2014: Volunteer    
Rutgers University Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

2013–2014: Peer tutor 
Rutgers University Plangere Writing Center

Spring 2012: Teaching Field Placement
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School and Hunterdon Central High School

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Design History Society (DHS)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
POD Network in Higher Education

LANGUAGES, CERTIFICATIONS, AND OTHER SKILLS
English: Native speaker
French: Conversational, reading, and translation proficiency
German: Reading and translation proficiency
Thai: Elementary proficiency

UndocuAlly Certification, UC Davis: 2020
TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certification: 2014

Microsoft Office Suite
Zotero Citational Software
Adobe Photoshop and InDesign
Procreate Graphics Editor
Audacity Digital Audio Editor
Zoom Video Communication Software
Canvas LMS Software
Copy editing and proofreading