Education

Ph.D. English, Boston University, 2022
Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing

M.A. English, University of Virginia, 2015

B.A. English, Classics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2012

Publications

“‘The Roads Is Good Now’: Rural Infrastructure in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying,” modernism/modernity, April 2025.

“‘Shunted, Changed’: Urban Forms and Infrastructural Modernism in James Joyce’s Ulysses,” Dublin James Joyce Journal, December 2023.

“William Faulkner,” co-authored w/ Charles Hannon, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, September 2021.

“Report on the XXV International James Joyce Symposium,” James Joyce Newestlatter, November 2016.

“‘All that the hand says when you touch’: Intercorporeal Ethics in Joyce’s Ulysses,” Joyce Studies Annual, December 2015.

Honors and Awards

GenAI Tier Grant, Brandeis University Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

John W. Hunt Scholarship, William Faulkner Society Jul 2022

International James Joyce Foundation Scholarship Jun 2022

Recent and Upcoming Conference Presentations

“Prompt, Play, Perform: Creative Genre Assignments with AI in the First-Year Writing Classroom,” MMLA Annual Convention, Milwaukee, WI. November 2025.

“‘Bad Men Make Good Roads’: Convict Labor and Road (Re)Construction in Faulkner’s Fiction,” MSA Annual Conference, Boston, MA. October 2025.

“Infrastructure and the "forefront of progress" in the Modernisms of John Dos Passos,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Virtual. May 2025.

“Embodied, Online, and Activated: Remixing and Revitalizing First-Year Writing,” CCCC Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. April 2025.

“Pipes and Plenaries: Joyce’s ‘Cloacal Obsession’ and His Defense of Irish Modernism,” International James Joyce Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland. June 2024.

“Narrative Architecture and/as Activism in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I, Hotel,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, co-organizer of panel “Hotel Cosmopolitan." March 2023.

“‘Walking Social Services’: Mapping Multicultural Care in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange,” MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. January 2023.

“Road (Re)Construction: Race and Southern Infrastructure in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha,” Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Annual Conference, Oxford, MS. July 2022.

“‘Continual Changes of the Thoroughfare’: Metropolitan and Modernist Transformations in Ulysses, International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland. June 2022.

“‘Hypercontexts’ and Hotels: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Formal (Infra)Structures,” NEMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. March 2022.

"‘It will find its shape’: Networked Forms and the Semiotics of Infrastructure in The Crying of Lot 49 and Satin Island,” PAMLA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV. November 2021.

“‘As if by magic’: Mediating Migration in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West,” SCLA Annual Conference, Austin, TX. October 2021.

“Literature for the Long Emergency: Teaching Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and McCarthy’s The Road,” Faulkner Studies in the UK Annual Colloquium, Virtual. September 2021.

“Good Roads and Great Floods: Emergent States and States of Emergency in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying,” ASLE Biennial Conference, Virtual. July 2021.