CV

EDUCATION

Ph.D English, University of Virginia, 2018 (Expected)
- Concentrations: 20th and 21st Century, American, Digital Humanities, Critical Theory
- Dissertation: “The Radical Sensibility: Cultures of Discontent in American Literature after 1934”
M.A. English, University of Virginia, 2016
B.A. English, Brown University 2012

Dissertation

“The Radical Sensibility: Cultures of Discontent in American Literature after 1934” reframes how scholars of affect and American literature understand feelings associated with radical discontent in the context of recent US literary history. Pursuing a pattern of discontent from the 1930s, through the 60s, and into the present, I argue that a uniquely radical sensibility becomes a persistent element of how American cultural formations articulate injustice. I use this lens to put the radical Marxist critics of the 1930s, such as the writers at a journal like Partisan Review, into conversation with revolutionary poetry from Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, as well as with a constellation of Native American novelists in the present, particularly Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie. Over the course of the century, in short, this sensibility gives shape to the ways in which aesthetic objects are mobilized to address political issues.

PUBLICATIONS

“‘I heard that voice at Troy’: Resonance at The Other Place in Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Stage Version,” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 5, no. 2 (2018): 193-208

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Papers Presented

“ ‘That little microphone / In our teeth’: Poetry, Computational Resistance, and the Black Arts Movement,” in TC Digital Humanities forum “Critical Computation,” MLA 2019, January 3-6, 2019 (expected)
“Measured Unrest in the Poetry of the Black Arts Movement,” Digital Humanities 2018, June 26-29 (expected)
“‘All the anger in the world has come to my house’: Alexie’s Indian Killer and the Reparation Plot,” Native American Literature Symposium, March 2-4, 2017
“Frustration & Literary Study: Louise Erdrich’s The Round House,” Terrible Beauty, Graduate English Students Association Conference, University of Virginia, April 15-17, 2016
“‘I heard that voice at Troy’: Resonance and Entanglement in Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Stage Version” ACLA, March 17-19, 2016
“Reading Books by Their Covers: Dos Passos’s U.S.A., Design Features, and Histories of Literary Reception” SAMLA, November 13-15, 2015
“Reading/Staging the Intractability of Race in Joyce’s ‘Circe,’” Reading Then & Now, Graduate English Students Association Conference, University of Virginia, April 4-6, 2014

Panels Moderated

“The Novel as Assemblage,” at Making and Collecting, Graduate English Students Association Conference, University of Virginia, April 7-9, 2017

Conferences Organized

Co-Chair, Human Terrains: Identity, Geography, Politics, Graduate English Students Association Conference, University of Virginia, 2014-2015

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Interests

Modern and contemporary American literature, particularly multi-ethnic lit., radicalism, post-war
Composition, with a focus in interdisciplinary writing
Critical theory, with a focus in literary methodology, critical race theory, and affect studies
Digital humanities, particularly literary study and text analysis

University of Virginia

English Dept.
- Modern American Authors: “The Western & the West,” introductory literature seminar
  - (Instructor; Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
- Writing and Critical Inquiry: “The University,” self-designed themed composition course
  - (Instructor; Spring 2015)
- Writing and Critical Inquiry: “Writing About Travel,” self-designed themed composition course
  - (Instructor; Fall 2014)
History Dept.
- “Marx”
  - (Grader for course taught by Allan Megill; Spring 2014)

Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching

“Humanities Programming with Ruby on Rails,” intensive week-long introductory seminar to the digital humanities
- (Co-Instructor with Brandon Walsh, Summer 2016)
“Help! I’m a Humanist!—Humanities Programming with Python,” intensive week-long introductory seminar to the digital humanities
- (Co-Instructor with Brandon Walsh, Summer 2017; Summer 2018 expected)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Digital Humanities Fellowship, towards completing a year-long digital project “Measured Unrest in the Poetry of the Black Arts Movement,” Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia, 2017-2018
Public Humanities Fellowship in South Atlantic Studies, attended semester-long seminar, University of Virginia, 2017
Honorable mention for Horst Frenz Prize, awarded to best paper by graduate student at ACLA 2016, for paper titled “‘I heard that voice at Troy’: Resonance and Entanglement in Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Stage Version,” 2016
Bologna-Duke Summer Fellowship to attend the Global Studies and Critical Theory program at the University of Bologna, University of Virginia, 2016
Buckner W. Clay award to study Langston Hughes’s relationship with Communism in the 1930s, through Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures, University of Virginia, 2016
Praxis Fellowship in Digital Humanities, collaborated on year-long, interdisciplinary digital project ClockWork at the Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia, 2015-2016
Battestin Fellowship from Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia to perform archival research for project titled “The Novels of John Dos Passos in the 1930s: Physical Features and Literary Reception”, University of Virginia, 2015
Rare Book School—University of Virginia Fellowship for attending “The American Book in the Industrial Era” at the Rare Book School as part of a year-long bibliographical project, 2014-2015
Honorable Mention for Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize for Most Outstanding Project for RBS-UVA Fellowship Project, “Reading Books by Their Covers: Dos Passos’s U.S.A., Design Features, and Histories of Literary Reception,” 2015”

Grants, Scholarships, and Sponsorships

Sponsored participant from English Dept. to attend The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, University of Virginia, 2017
DHSI Tuition Scholarship for attending “Physical Computing and Fabrication” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2015
DHSI Tuition Scholarship for attending “Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2014
Sponsored Student Scholarship for attending “Humanities Programming” at the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014
Summer Graduate Research and Travel Grants, University of Virginia, 2013-2015

SELECTED CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL TALKS

Invited to present on digital humanities project “Measured Unrest in the Poetry of the Black Arts Movement” at Prof. Lesley Wheeler’s ENGL 295: African-American Poetry, Washington & Lee University, 2018 (expected)
Invited to present on my experience with the digital humanities in Prof. Andrew Stauffer’s ENGL 8100, “Introduction to Literary Research,” University of Virginia, 2017
Co-presented on “ClockWork,” a digital humanities sonification project by the 2015-2016 cohort of Praxis Fellows (co-presenters: James P. Ascher, Bremen Donovan, Gillet Rosenblith, Rachel D. Trapp, Lydia Warren), Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia, 2016
Guest presentation on writing in the digital humanities my work as a Praxis Fellow in Prof. Patricia Sullivan’s ENWR 2520, “Writing Digital Stories,” University of Virginia, 2015
Guest presentation on digital identity in Purdom Lindblad’s presentation to ENGL 8100, “Introduction to Literary Research,” University of Virginia, 2015