Curriculum Vitae (Short)

Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Elon University, 2023-

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Languages & Literatures, Sacred Heart University, 2019-2022

Academic Administration

Program Coordinator, Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, 2016-18

Education

Ph.D. in English, Duke University, 2016

M.A. in English, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2008

B.A. in English and Anthropology, University of Texas, 2005

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“A Swamp in Name Only: Becoming-Geographic, Abandonment, and the Archive in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 430-450.

“Abandoned Being: The Aesthetics of Inhabiting in Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 67, no. 3, 2021, pp. 317-344.

Book Chapters

“‘I do not want the judgment of any man’: The Unstable Animal-Human Boundary in Linguistics and Kafka’s ‘A Report to an Academy.’” Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Culture, edited by Nandita Batra and Vartan Messier, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 81-91.

Edited Works

How Literature Understands Poverty, special issue of American Literature, vol. 94, no. 3, 2022. [Co-editor with Joseph Entin, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Irvin Joseph Hunt].

Reviews

“Poverty Futures.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 585-591.

Review of Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture, by Cynthia Wu, Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction, by Diana Rebekkah Paulin, and Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century, by Kyla Wazana Tompkins. American Literature, vol. 86, no. 2, 2013, pp. 394-396.

Selected Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Community-Based Learning Scholar, Elon University (2023-24)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Grant, Newberry Library (2019)

Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities (2018)

Selected Conference Presentations

“Potential Plenty: Genre and John Steinbeck’s, Sanora Babb’s, and Tom Collin’s Dust Bowl Writing,” Modernist Studies Association, Brooklyn, NY, October 26, 2023.

“Swamp Work,” C19, Coral Gables, FL, April 2, 2022.

“Care Not Given: Weathering, Addiction, and Women’s Health in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 11, 2020 [co-organized special session].

“You Can Die: Weathering Maternal and Reproductive Health Disparities in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones.” Working Class Studies Association Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, EN, September 4, 2019.

 “Not Quite Digital Cartography,” Digital Humanities Conference, Mexico City, MX, June 26-29, 2018 [co-organized panel].

“Using Media to Develop Humanities Narratives,” National Humanities Conference, Boston, MA, November 2-5, 2017 [co-organized working group].

“Specters of Debt: The Foreclosing of the Frontier in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!” The Working Class Studies Association Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 31-June 2, 2017.

“A Swamp in Name Only: Black Belt Geographies and the Archive,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 8, 2016.

“Digital Memories and Objects,” Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, Michigan State University, MI, May 28, 2015 [co-organized panel].

 “Fugitive Ecologies: Reproduction, Relation, and Exchange in W.E.B. Dubois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece,” American Comparative Literature Association, New York University, NY, March 20-23, 2014.

 “Abandoned Publics: Sentimentalism, Proletarianism, Modernism and Meridel LeSueur’s The Girl,” Alternative Modernisms: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Cardiff University, WL, May 17, 2013.

 “Economies of the Rent Body in Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete and 9/11 Commemoration,” American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 29-April 1, 2012.

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