Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, English, 2015
M.A., Wake Forest University, English, 2005
B.A., Yale University, English, 2003
M.A., Wake Forest University, English, 2005
B.A., Yale University, English, 2003
Academic Programs
Biography
Employment (Selected)
- Colorado State University-Pueblo, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2017-2018
- Antioch College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2015-2016
Courses Taught at Western
Fall 2022:
- ENG 102–Academic Writing: American Short Stories
- ENG 148–Film and Culture: Hitchcock’s Adaptations
- ENG 250–Critical Approaches to Literature: Feminist Theory
- ENG 493–Senior Seminar I: Jane Austen
Spring 2023:
- ENG 102–Academic Writing: American Short Stories
- ENG 250–Critical Approaches to Literature: Feminist Theory
- ENG 371–Literary Theory and Criticism: Shakespeare
- ENG 494–Senior Seminar II: Futures
Fall 2023:
- ENG 103–Writing and Rhetoric II
- ENG 370–Myth and Culture: Greco-Roman Literature
- ENG 373–British Literature: Milton through the Romantics
Spring 2024:
- ENG 103–Writing and Rhetoric II
- ENG 358–Global Literatures: Marriage
- ENG 463–Major British Authors: The Brontës and Gaskell
Fall 2024:
- ENG 103–Writing and Rhetoric II
- ENG 337–Women Writers: Feminist Utopias and Dystopias
- ENG 374–British Literature: The Victorians to the Present Day
Spring 2025:
- ENG 103–Writing and Rhetoric II
- ENG 358–Global Literatures: Marriage
- ENG 463–Major British Authors: Jane Austen
Publications
- I Do?: Women, Consent, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England. University of Toronto Press, 2026 (advance contract).
- Elizabeth Bennet’s Proposal Scenes and Nonconsensual Consent.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, no. 42, 2020, pp. 194-206.
- “‘Nothing That She Could Allege Against Him in Judicious or Judicial Ears’: ‘Consensual’ Marital Abuse in Victorian Literature.” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 69, no. 1, 2017, pp. 89-119.
- “‘She Sins While She Remains Away’: Marital Consent, Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Novels.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 129, Spring 2016, pp. 98-111.
- “‘When a Daughter Elopes to Gretna, Generally It Is a Wicked Thing’: Female Consent, Clandestine Marriage, and Susannah Frances Reynolds’s Gretna Green; Or, All for Love.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 28, no. 2, April-June 2015, pp. 79-86.
- “‘You Could Be Judas’: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Black Slaveowner.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2015, pp. 16-44.
Awards at Western
- Men’s Basketball Team Faculty and Staff Appreciation Award, 2023
- Professional Activity Fund Awards, 2023-2024
- Women’s Basketball Team Faculty and Staff Appreciation Award, 2023
- Wrestling Team Faculty and Staff Appreciation Award, 2022
Service at Western
- Co-Host, Contemporary Writer Series, Spring-Fall 2024
- Founder and President, Women of Western, Spring 2023-present
- Instructor, Women’s Basketball Team yoga, Fall 2024-present
- Member, Career Champions Network, Fall 2023-Fall 2024
- Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Summer 2024-present
- Member, First-Year Writing Program Committee, Fall 2022-present
- Member, Graduate Programs Committee, Fall 2022-present
