Education
- 2019 (Expected): PhD, English Literature
- Loyola University Chicago, Chicago IL
- Dissertation: inadequate futures, directed by Suzanne Bost
- 2014: MA, English Literature
- Loyola University Chicago, Chicago IL
- 2013: BA, English Literature; BA Philosophy
- Pennsylvania State University, State College PA
- Phi Beta Kappa
Teaching
- Instructor of Record [Loyola University Chicago]
- 2018: Core Writing Seminar: Writing in the Contemporary (Spring)
- 2017: Nature in Literature: Human @ the Limit (Spring)
- 2016: Exploring Fiction: Remediating Narrative (Fall)
- 2016: Core Literature Seminar: Stranger Than Fiction (Spring)
- 2015: Core Writing Seminar: Writing in the Contemporary (Fall)
- 2014: Core Writing Seminar: Writing Responsibly (Fall)
- Teaching Assistant [Loyola University Chicago]
- 2017: Contemporary Critical Theory (Fall)
- 2015: Contemporary Critical Theory (Spring)
- 2014: Core Writing Seminar: Writing Responsibly (Spring)
- Tutoring & High School Experience
- 2017: Expository and Academic Writing
- Summer Enrichment at Loyola - serving rising high school seniors
- 2013-14: Graduate Tutor
- Loyola Writing Center – serving undergraduates
- 2013: Graduate Tutor
- Loyola Literacy Center – serving Rogers Park Chicago area
Conference Presentations
- 2017: 'Towards an Intra-Active Ethics'
- Modern and Contemporary Studies Initiative Summer Institute, State College PA
- 2016: 'Hollywood Hacker Bullshit: Popular Hacktivism in Mr. Robot'
- Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association, Seattle WA
- 2015: 'Nonhuman Art and Refiguring the Public Sphere'
- The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Greenville SC
Related Experiences
- 2015-17: English Graduate Student Association – Treasurer
- 2016: Respondent to Steve Jones's 'Reverse-Engineering the First Humanities Computing Center: A Media-Archaeology Approach'
- Instant History: The Postwar Digital Humanities and Their Legacies, Chicago, IL
- 2015: Respondent to Urmila Seshagiri's 'Plotting Against Modernism: Legacies of an Aesthetic Revolution'
- Modernism’s Legacies: (Post)Postmodernism, Chicago, IL
- 2014: Medieval Disability Seminar w/ Dr. Edward Wheatley
- Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
- 2014: Seminar Participant – 'Affect and Modernity'
- 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Chicago IL
Honors & Awards
- 2017: Participant in inaugural Modern and Contemporary Studies Initiative Summer Institute
- 2015: Stanley Clayes Essay Winner, Loyola University Chicago
- 2012: Dotterer Scholarship, Penn State
- 2011-2013: University Trustee Scholarship, Penn State
- 2010-2011: Academic Competitiveness Grant, Penn State
- 2009-2013: Dean’s List, Penn State
- 2009-2013: George S. Wykoff Scholarship, Penn State