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  • Teaching Assistant - Dissertator, English

Education

  • MA, English, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2019
  • BA, English, University of Central Florida, 2017

Courses Taught

  • ENGL1SH 100: Introduction to College Writing and Reading
  • ENGLISH 101: Introduction to College Writing (Fall 2020)
  • ENGLISH 102: College Writing and Research (Fall 2019-Spring 2023)
  • LGBT 200: Intro to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
  • ENGLISH 222: Introduction to English Literature from 1800 to Present (Fall 2022)
  • ENGLISH 215: Introduction to English Studies (Spring 2021, Summer 2022)

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth-century American, British, and Indigenous literatures; land-based and decolonial approaches to literary and cultural studies, childhood studies, coalition building, and activism. In particular, texts that rely on depictions of children, animals, and food (especially bread) to catalyse civic engagement and social movement.
  • The application of place and land-based pedagogies emergent from Indigenou worldviews, especially decolonial and anti-racist classroom and assessment practices.

Related Activities

  • Jankofsky Essay Award (UMD 2018)
  • Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship (2024-2025)
  • Frederick J. Hoffman Award - honorable mention (Fall 2022)
  • James A. Sappenfield Fellowship (Spring 2020)

Conference Presentations

  • “Challenging the Norms of Academic Writing.” UWM’s Center for Academic Excellence Virtual Teaching and Learning Symposium, 2023.
  • “The Ecological Conscious of a Biblical Imagination: Torah Narratives as a Model for Acknowledging and Responding to Human-Generated Climate Disaster.” UWM Religious Studies Undergraduate Research Conference2024, proceedings published in UWM’s Digital Commons, 2020, [dc.uwm.edu/rsso/2020/panel2/1]dc.uwm.edu/rsso/2020/panel2/1.
  • “‘But a Business . . . it is Progressive!’: Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop as a Guide to the Technology of New Womanhood.” The 15th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 2020.
  • “A Thing's Matter: Vital Materialism and the Agency of the Nonhuman.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 2020.
  • “‘A Rich Network of Discourses’: Amish Tradition and Identity in Academic Writing.” Red River Graduate Student Conference, 2020.
  • “Empathy and the Exploited Victorian Body in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty.” Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, 2019.
  • “Domestic and Professional Roles in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon.” College English Association Annual Conference, 2018.

Biographical Sketch

Workshops

  • “A Thing's Matter: Vital Materialism and the Agency of the Nonhuman.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 2020.
  • “Toward Various Designs and Applications of Labor-Based Grading,” University of Milwaukee, English Department, January 2023.
  • “Why I Use Labor-Based Grading and How I Use It,” University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, English Department, 2022

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