MA in English, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2019
BA in English with a minor in History, University of Central Florida, 2017
Courses Taught
ENGLISH 102 - College Writing and Research
ETHNIC 275 - Queer Migrations
LGBT 275 - Queer Migrations
LGBT 599 - Selected Topics in LGBT Studies
WRIT 1120 - College Writing (UMD)
Research Interests
The intersections of media studies and global climate disruptions
Game studies, environmental games, representations of climate disruptions in interactive media
Transnational and transgenerational media, diaspora studies, antiracist practices and pedagogy
Conference Presentations
“‘You Mean, You’re Not Going to Read Them?:’ The Barrier-Breaking Value of Private Journals in the Public FYC Classroom” presented at the 2020 Red River Graduate Student Conference.
“Situated Affect: An Incomplete Reading of Mirror Neurons in (e)Sports” presented at the 2020 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.
“Cyborgs are the 21st century Frankenstein's Monster: Adaptation as a Means of Re/Visioning Dickensian Monsters as Postmodern Cyborgs" accepted for the College English Association 2020 Conference.
“Bridging the Real-ized and Imagined Cuba in the American Imagination: Investigating the Reader’s Role in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban" presented at the College English Association 2018 Conference.