I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in English, and am also pursuing the graduate certificate in Digital Humanities. My dissertation, “Making Sense and Nonsense: Mathematics and Global Poetry,” reads math poetically and poetry mathematically, to see what light these two discrepant discourses shed on each other. Set in global poetry in the postcolonial and postmodern period, my project considers prevailing mathematical concepts and our impetus to understand how literature and history work with regard to them. In 2021 I graduated with a B.A. in English and Mathematics from Williams College, where my thesis was creative nonfiction titled “A Neighborhood of the Missing Knot.”

Publications

“Virtual Multicrossings and Petal Diagrams for Virtual Knots and Links,” Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications 32.8 (2023), with Colin Adams, Chaim Even-Zohar, Jonah Greenberg, Reuben Kaufman, David Lee, Darin Li, Dustin Ping, and Theodore Sandstrom, arXiv:2103.08314.

“Augmented Cellular Alternating Links in Thickened Surfaces are Hyperbolic,” European Journal of Mathematics 9.4 (2023), with Colin Adams, Michele Capovilla-Searle, Darin Li, Lily Qiao Li, Jacob McErlean, Alexander Simons, and Natalie Stewart, arXiv:2107.05406.

“Lower Bounds on Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds via Decomposition,” pre-print, 2021, with Colin Adams, Michele Capovilla-Searle, Darin Li, Lily Qiao Li, Jacob McErlean, Alexander Simons, and Natalie Stewart, arXiv:2111.06319.