I am a Ph.D. candidate and graduate teaching assistant at Texas A&M University. My dissertation is a study of private devotional reading in early modern England, exploring how reading practices and reader expectations shaped and continue to shape religious discourse.
Online CV
Education
- Ph.D., English Literature, Texas A&M University (expected graduation May 2022)
- Dissertation: Take and Read: Private Devotional Reading in Early Modern England
- B.A., English Literature, Missouri State University
Publications
- “Digital Media as Sacred Space.” Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World, edited by Heidi A. Campbell. Texas: Digital Religion Publications, 2020.
- with James S. Baumlin. “Art Songs in the Ozarks: The Gentrification of Early Springfield, Missouri.” Ozarks Watch: A Magazine of the Ozarks Series 2, Vol. 6, No. 1. 2017.
Conference Presentations
- “Imitatio Literati: The Legacy of Convent Poetics in Early Modern England.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 2020, cancelled.
- “Love’s Both Parts: Hermaphroditic Hermeneutics in Crashaw’s St. Teresa Poems.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Medieval Association of the Pacific joint conference, Phoenix, AZ. 2019.
- “The Ecstasy of Richard Crashaw: A Hermaphroditic Reading of the St. Teresa Poems.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, Atlanta, GA. 2018
- with James S. Baumlin, “Ethos, Interiority, and the Alien Word in Shakespeare.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, Austin, TX. 2017.
Professional Experience
- Kelsey Fellow, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, 2021
- Participant, Making Meaning: Hands-on Basic Paleography and Book Production, The Folger Institute with Texas A&M University. (Rescheduled for Summer 2021)
- Participant, The Bible and Histories of Reading with Peter Stallybrass, Rare Book School, 2019
- Participant, A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018
- Participant, Book History Workshop, Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University, 2018
- Consultant, Texas A&M University Writing Center, 2018-20
- Doctoral Research Fellow, World Shakespeare Bibliography, Texas A&M University, 2017-18
Teaching Experience and Certifications
- ENGL 212, Shakespeare online (FA 2020)
- ENGL 203, Writing About Literature (FA 2019, SP 2020)
- ENGL 210, Technical Writing online (SU 2019, SU 2020)
- Master Tutor, College Reading and Learning Association
- ENGL 104, Composition and Rhetoric (FA 2018, SP 2019)
Grants and Awards
- Fasken Graduate Student Teaching Award, Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts, 2021
- Graduate Teaching Merit Award, Texas A&M English Department, 2021
- Essay award, Dr. Stanley L. Archer Award in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, 2019
- Grant-in-aid, A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018
- Essay award, South Central Renaissance Conference Graduate Student Travel Award, 2018
Service
- Graduate Instruction Committee Representative, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, 2020-21
- Graduate Studies Committee Representative, English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, 2020-21
- Co-President, English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, 2018-19