CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English and American Literature, Boston University, May 2022
· Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing, 2017
M.A. in English and American Literature, Boston University, 2016
B.A. in English Literature, Williams College, 2013
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business: Race, Poverty, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels” American Literature for a special issue “How Literature Understands Poverty”. American Literature. 94.3 (Fall 2022): 473-496.
“Trans-Atlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics of Robinson Crusoe” American Literature. 93.4 (December 2021): 543–570.
“A Global Sickness: Medical Science and Print Culture in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,”The Edgar Allan Poe Review 20.2 (Fall 2019): 269-288.
Reviews
“Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West,” Western American Literature 58.1 (Spring 2023): 88-89.
“Atlantic Jewish Worlds, 1500-1900” Early American Literature 57.1 (Jan 2022): 337-352.
“Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture: Junctures of Time, Space, Self, and Politics” in The Journal of American Studies (forthcoming 2023).
Other Essays
“Dead Fish: On Re-Reading Moby Dick” for the “Pleasure Reading” feature in J19: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 9.2 (Fall 2021): 277-282.
“Children’s Books Need to Watch Their (Skin) Tone” in the launch issue of The Boston Globe’s Emancipator (April 29, 2022)
“Abortion on the Margins: How Material Texts Shaped Early-American Reproductive Freedom” for Insurrect! .
HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023 SHEAR Dissertation Prize
2022-2023 John B. Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
Spring 2022 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, BU Center for the Humanities
Spring 2021 Graduate Student Affiliate, BU Center for Antiracist Research
Spring 2021 Albert M. Greenfield Dissertation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia
Fall 2020 Barra Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Summer 2020 Short-term Fellowship, Huntington Library (declined)
Spring 2020 Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, Boston University (canceled—COVID-19)
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020 Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University
Summer 2019 Reese Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019 Teaching Fellowship, Boston University
Spring 2018 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Fellowship, Boston University
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018 Graduate Writing Fellowship, Boston University
Fall 2016 – Spring 2017 Teaching Fellowship, Boston University
Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
June 2023 “Fictions in Print” Fellow talk, The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
March 2022 “‘Reader, Be Assured This Narrative is No Fiction: Harriet Jacobs, Sentimental Fiction, and the U.S. Abridgment History of Pamela,” Seminar Presentation, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, PA
April 2021 “Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in 19th Century America” a Fireside Chat hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia (Virtual)
February 2021 “Tracing the Publication History of Steady Sellers,” Fellows Colloquium, The Library Company of Philadelphia (Virtual)
September 2020 “The Unstable Economics of Robinson Crusoe,” Fellows Workshop, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies (Virtual)
October 2019 “Language Matters: Discussing Difficult Texts” in BUCH Fall Forum, Boston, MA
July 2019 “Defoe’s American Readers,” Fellows Talk, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
June 2021 “Irreverence Toward the Canon,” a conversation recorded for the C19 Podcast (panelist)
SELECTED CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
ASECS: The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, MO — March 2023
“Children as Bookmakers” (panelist)
C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Coral Gables, FL — March 2022
“The Material Diversity of the Novel in Print” (panelist)
SSAWW: Society for the Study of American Women Writers — November 2021
“Childhood, Literacy and Print Ecologies in American Women’s Writing” (co-organizer and chair)
C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Virtual Conference — October 2020
“Robinson Crusoe and the Mass Market Canon in Antebellum America” in “Irreverence Toward the Canon” (panelist)
“Learning to Read at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School” in “Survivance: New Approaches to Indigenous Voices in 19th-century America” (seminar participant)
MLA: Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA — January 2020
“Crusoe in America” in “New Approaches to Reading (in) Nineteenth-Century America” (panelist)
ALA: The American Literature Association, Boston, MA—May 2019
“Freedom Summer Collegiate and Social Justice Pedagogy Beyond the University” Lydia Maria Child Society Panel, “Social Justice Pedagogy Roundtable” (panelist)
ASA: The American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA—Nov 2018
“Pedagogies of Dissent: Freedom Summer Collegiate Symposium” (chair)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University, Cambridge MA: LECTURER (Fall 2023)
HL 90: American Education Reforms
Boston University, Boston MA: TEACHING FELLOW, Instructor of Record (2018-19 Academic Year)
EN 120: Reading American Poverty
EN 141: Introduction to Fiction
Boston University, Boston MA: TEACHING FELLOW, Instructor of Record (2017-18 Academic Year)
WR 100: Go West, Young Man! Imagining the American West in Literature and Popular Culture
WR 150: Go West, Young Man! Imagining the American West in Literature and Popular Culture
Boston University, Boston, MA: TEACHING FELLOW, Teaching Assistant (2016-17 Academic Year)
EN 150: Children’s Literature
EN 364: Shakespeare II
St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE: ENGLISH TEACHER (2014-15 Academic Year)
10th Grade English: Modern Global Literature
12th Grade English: Advanced Study in English Literature
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Boston University: Research Assistant to Professor Joseph Rezek (2018-2020)
Boston University: Research Assistant to Professor Erin Murphy (2017-2018)
Boston University: Research Assistant to Professor Anna Henchman (2016-2017)
SERVICE
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies: Conference Committee (2022-23)
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies: Mentor for Undergraduate Research Workshop (2021)
Boston University: Vice President of English Graduate Student Association (2018-19)
Boston University: English Department Graduate Representative (2018-19)
Boston University: Graduate Writing Workshop Co-Coordinator (2017-2019)
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Freedom Project Network: Board Member (2019-2023)
Freedom Summer Collegiate: Founding Director of Development and Partnerships (2015-2019)
St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE: Communications Associate, Copywriter (2014-15)
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA: Editorial Assistant (2011)
The New York Review of Books, New York, NY: Publicity Intern (2009)
LANGUAGES
French– advanced proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking
AFFILIATIONS
C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists
The Modern Language Association (MLA)
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
The American Studies Association (ASA)