Education
PhD, English Literature, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
MA, English Literature, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
BA, Literature, Magna Cum Laude, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY
BA, Communication Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Hurston and Transcontinental Imperialism.” Hurston in Context, edited by James Mellis, Cambridge University Press, 2026.
“Faulkner’s Cool Choreographies: Rural Taylorism and the Economy of Bodily Motion.” Faulkner’s Modernisms, edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, University Press of Mississippi, June 2026.
“Southern City Mysteries and the Sexual Economy of Genre.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, vol. XXXI, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2024.
“Vorticism and Iron: Architectural Dialogue in Faulkner’s ‘Mirrors of Chartres Street.’” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, vol. 76, no. 1, March 2024.
“Baldwin, Individualism, and the Means of White Self-Empowerment.” The Faulkner Journal, Special Issue: Faulkner and the Work of Anti-Racism, vol. 33, no. 2, May 2023.
“The Paradox of Door-Keeping: Access and Absurdity, Then and Now.” Thresholds 50: Before//After, March 2022.
“Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now.” In Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse, edited by Christian Beck, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
“Rhythmic and Distant Depths in Joyce and Tóibín.” Irish Studies Review, vol. 29, no.3, July 2021.
“Ritual Architectures: Doorless and Makeshift Boundaries in Faulkner’s Slave Quarters.” In Faulkner and Slavery, edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
“János Mailáth’s ‘Erzsi die Spinnerin’: Introduction and Translation.” Modern Language Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, Winter 2020.
“The Tension of Intention: Merleau-Ponty Gestures Toward Kafka.” Chiasmi International, no. 21, Fall 2019.
“Woolf and Zitkala-Sa: Subjectivity and Nationalism.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, no. 92, Winter 2018.
“The Code of Mad Men: Emotional Labor, Schizophrenia and the Computer Age.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 50, no. 2, April 2017.
Books
Bursting Worlds Asunder: Doorways in Modernist Fiction. LSU Press, April 2027.
Forthcoming
“Architecture and the Making of Modernist Mobility.” Oxford Handbook of Mobility in Literature, edited by Jacqueline Foertsch, Nicole Dib, and Stéphanie Ponsavady, Oxford, 2028.
“In Depth, On the Surface: Reading Through Experience and Post-Critical Discourse.” Palgrave Handbook of Phenomenology and Literature, edited by Jeff McCurry, Palgrave, 2027.
“Still Running: Faulkner’s Bodies without Plans.” Faulkner and Bodies, edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, University Press of Mississippi, 2027.
“Southern Gothic Architecture, Big and Small.” Oxford Handbook of the Southern Gothic, edited by Michael Bibler and Sheri-Marie Harrison, Oxford University Press, 2027.
“Unpacking Faulkner’s Library: An Archi-textual Dreamscape.” Faulkner and Modernisms, edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, University Press of Mississippi, 2026.
“‘Architecture a Little Curious’: Faulkner’s Baroque Ambivalence.” Queer Faulkner, edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, University Press of Mississippi, 2026.
Interviews
“Escaping Myth with David Leeming: An Interview.” James Baldwin Review, vol. 12, issue 1, Fall 2026.
“The Philosopher’s Truth in Fiction: An Interview with David Michael Kleinberg-Levin.” Chiasmi International, no. 21, Fall 2019.
“‘An Austere, Whispering Power’: An Interview with Colm Tóibín.” Columbia Journal, 3 Jul. 2019, https://www.columbiajournal.org/articles/2019-an-austere-whispering-power-an-interview-with-colm-tibn.
“Selon Marta Nijhuis and Mauro Carbone: Screens, Surfaces, and Shadows.” Interview. The Ocean State Review, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall 2017.
Reviews
Review of Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture and the Southern Outsider’s Appeal, 1960-2020, by William P. Murray. Eudora Welty Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2025.
Under Review
Out of Hamelin. Novel.
Hypnotist Collector. Short Story Collection.
“Chasms of Love.” Novella.
“Between Baldwin and Arendt: The Rejection of Common Sense and the Reality of the Body.” Scholarly Article.
“Glib and Incontestable: Inspirational Family Décor and the Architecture of Belief.” Scholarly Article.
In Progress
“Coordinates: Colm Tóibín’s ‘Emerging Self’ in On James Baldwin.” James Baldwin Review.
Making Moves: Literary Choreography as Ethic. Scholarly Book. Funded by American Association of University Women, American Fellowship.
Creative Writing
“The Man Takes His Time.” Chicago Quarterly Review, vol. 31, Summer 2020.
“Hypnotist Collector.” Hotel Amerika, vol. 14, Fall 2016.
Teaching Experience
Visiting Faculty, Providence College, Providence, RI
Development of Western Civilization (DWC)
DWC 202: Art in the Flesh: Making Ourselves, Imagining Others (Co-Taught Spring 2026)
DWC 202: Only Connect: Producing Ourselves in the Digital Age (Co-Taught Spring 2025)
DWC 202: Queer Culture and Self-Making: Undoing Western Empire (Co-Taught, Spring 2024)
ENG 202: Rhetorical Analysis and Argumentation (Spring 2024)
DWC 201: Modernity: Producing Self, State, and History (Team-Taught, Every Fall 2021-2026)
DWC 101: Ancient and Classical Politics, Community, & Storytelling (Team-Taught, Fall 2023, 2024)
DWC 202: Skin Deep: Living in Your Body and Other Space Oddities (Co-Taught, Spring 2022, 2023)
DWC 102: Subaltern Storytelling from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Team-Taught, Every Spring 2022-2026)
ENG 301 (Genre Writing): The Op-Ed: Where Knowledge Begins (2023); Writing Experience (Fall 2019); Theories and Literatures of Argumentation (Spring-Fall 2019)
ENG 175 (Introduction to Literature): Literatures of the Body (Spring 2020)
ENG 101 (Writing Seminar): Diversity and Power (Fall 2019)
CHM 479 (Writing Course): Chemistry and the Modern World (Co-Taught, Fall 2019)
Bryant University, Providence, RI, Adjunct Instructor
LCS 121: Introduction to Literary Modernism (Fall 2017-Spring 2020)
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI, Adjunct Instructor
ILS 2090: Literatures of Labor (Fall 2017)
ENG 1020: College Composition (Fall 2017-Fall 2018)
ENG 1021: Advanced Composition and Communication (Winter 2017-Spring 2018)
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Graduate Student Instructor
GWS 220: Women and Natural Science (Online) (Teaching Assistant, Summer 2016 & 2017)
ENG 205B: Creative Writing: Fiction (Spring 2017)
ENG 243: The Short Story: Southern Short Fiction (Spring 2016-Fall 2016)
ENG 160: 20th Century Fiction/Global Spaces/Freedom and Power (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
ENG 110: Introduction to Literature: Modernism (Fall 2014)
WRT 104: Writing to Inform and Explain (Fall 2013-Spring 2014)
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Lecturer
Writing Seminar (Online and In Person) (Fall 2010-Summer 2013)
Arts of Expression: Global Mythology (Fall 2011- Spring 2013)
Awards and Grants
Civil Discourse Faculty Fellowship. Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy Lab. Providence College. Full $1000. 2023-2024.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellow: Hurston on the Horizon. July 2021.
American Association for University Women, American Fellowship. Full $30,000. Postdoctoral Researcher for 2020-2021.
Northeast Modern Language Association Summer Research Fellowship. Full $1,500. Franz Kafka Papers, Bodleian Library at Oxford University. August 2019.
Modern Language Association Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Member Travel Grant. Full $400. January 2019.
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Grant. (Co-authored proposal materials for “Phenomenology and the Arts Today” conference funding) Full $2,000. April 2017.
Hope and Heritage Travel Grant. URI, May 2015-September 2016.
John W. Hunt Memorial/Faulkner Journal Scholarship. The William Faulkner Society, July 2015.
Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Grant. URI, Spring 2015.
Conference Presentations
“Baldwin’s Gestural Coding: White Feminine Performance and Transracial Irony.” Presented and Moderated for Panel: White Liberal Subject and American Writers. Modern Language Association Conference. Toronto, ON, January 2026.
“Still Running: Faulkner’s Bodies without Plans.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, July 2025.
“Porches and Power: Hurston’s Building in Dialogue,” Presenter and Organizer of Zora Neale Hurston Society Panel, “Hurston Horizons, Cosmic and Critical.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA, May 2025.
“Unpacking Faulkner’s Library: An Archi-textual Dreamscape.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, July 2024.
“‘Architectures a little curious’: Faulkner’s Baroque Ambivalence.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, July 2023.
“James Baldwin Gestures: A Critique of Mobility.” English Department Speaker Series. Providence College, May 2023.
“‘Freedom from what? From work?’: Faulkner’s Rural Taylorism and the Economy of Bodily Motion.” Faulkner and Modernisms. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, July 2022.
“The Monotonous New in Kafka’s Hotel Diaries” (Virtual Presentation). International Symposium: Literary Hotels. University of Athens, September 2021.
“Tóibín’s Border through the Decades and the Power of Passivity.” Roundtable Discussion. Ireland’s Borders, Old and New. Modern Language Association Conference. Toronto, ON, January 2021.
“Hurston’s Anti-Empire: Streets and Porches in Dialogue.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Accepted for Brooklyn, NY, October 2022.
“Kafka’s Marionette Drawings, Primitive Form, and Pictorial Language Systems.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA, March 2020.
“János Mailáth’s ‘Erzsi die Spinnerin,’ Kierkegaard’s Shirt, and Infinite Resignation.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, IL, January 2019.
“Ritual Architectures: Doorless and Makeshift Boundaries in Faulkner’s Slave Quarters.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, July 2018.
“Flat-pack Bauhaus: Liberating Objects in New Mass Markets.” French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM). Paris, France, Sorbonne University, June 2018.
“Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier: The Excess and Exhibition of Southern Place.” The Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Boston, MA, March 2016.
“The Mysteries of Memphis: Sanctuary and the Pornographic Tradition.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, July 2015.
“Rilke’s ‘Soundless Senses’: Sound and Reproduction in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Toronto, ON, May 2015.
“Woolf Performs ‘Parrhesia’: Art and Freedom Between the Acts.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Toronto, ON, May 2015.
“Individual Erasure and Symbol Creation: Implications of Dialogue between Derrida and Wittgenstein.” Paul Lucas History Conference. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2008.
Academic Service
Providence College
Trivium Pilot Program (Fall 2024-2026)
Writing Committee (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
University of Rhode Island
Curriculum Developer, World Literature course template, General Education Initiative (Summer 2015)
Teaching Mentor, Teaching Literature Training (2015-2017)
Committee Member, URI Graduate Conference (Spring 2015)
Graduate Liaison to the English Department (2014-2015)
Committee Member, Ocean State Summer Writing Conference (2014)
Journals
Reviewer, Modernism/modernity (June 2025)
Reviewer, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (September 2023)
Reviewer, Feminist Formations (October 2019)
Reviewer, Postcolonial Writing (September 2019)