PhD English Literature, specializing in transatlantic queer feminist modernisms in the 20th and 21st century.
Research
My book project, tentatively entitled “Handmaking a History: Material Kinship and the Construction of a Queer Feminist Literature,” examines the rippling effects of modernist print tactics and stylistic forms in queer women’s literature throughout the twentieth century. Focusing mainly on intellectual histories of feminist and queer theories, as framed through the activist scholarships of radical lesbian and feminist excavators of queer feminist modernism in the 1970s and 1980s, this project questions received limitations on intergenerational connection and nonbiological kinship, and centers the role of embodied desire in women’s writing and textual production.
Writing and Presentations
Writing
“The Amazon and the Page: Textual Friendships and Activist Scholarship in Feminism’s Second Wave”. The New Americanist, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (Accepted for Review).
“Voyeurism, Desire, and Narrative Subversion in Colette’s Claudine Novels”. Women’s Writing, 31(2), April 2024. pp. 297-313.
Presentations
Invited Talk, “Handmaking a Heritage: The Visual and Material Cultures of Second-Wave Feminism”. Friedman Feminist Press Presentation, Colorado State University, October 2025.
Panel Organizer, “Queer Modernist Print Infrastructures”. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA, 2025.
–. Presenter, “A Body of Work: Self-Publishing and the Authorial Body in Natalie Barney’s The One Who is Legion”.
“The Amazon and the Page: Amateur Bibliography as Lesbian- Feminist Praxis in the Second Wave”. Queer Bibliography Conference, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, 2025.
Panel Organizer, “Archival Activisms: Resistance In/Through Print”. Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Sponsored Session, NeMLA Philadelphia, 2025.
“Seducing Sappho: Queer Alliance and Literary Subgenre in the Works of Michel Field, Renée Vivien and H.D.” Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms Conference, USC Columbia, 2025.
“’Vers Lesbos’: Mobile Geographies in H.D.’s Sapphic Verse”. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2024.
“Stalking Djuna: Tracing Queer Feminist Modernisms in Fran Ross’s Oreo and Bertha Harris’s Lover”. NeMLA, Boston, MA, 2024.
“The Queer Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal(l).” MLA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2023.
CV
EDUCATION
PhD English Literature, University of British Columbia, 2025.
Dissertation: “Unfamiliar Kin: Queer Alliance and Textual Kinship in Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing”.
M.A. English Literature, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2020.
Master’s Thesis: “Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien, and Natalie Barney”.
B. A. English Literature and Theatre, Warren Wilson College, 2016.
TEACHING
Graduate Teaching Certificate, University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia 2021-2024
ENGL 110-003, Approaches to Literature: “Belonging” Teaching Assistant
ENGL 110-007, –, “Defining the Self” Teaching Assistant
ENGL 110-008, –, “Literature and Media” Teaching Assistant
ENGL 110-002, –, “Imitation in Literature” Teaching Assistant
University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2018-2020
ENGL 1101, Introductory Composition Teaching Assistant
ENGL 1102, Introductory Composition Teaching Assistant
ENGL 2015, The Graphic Novel Teaching Assistant
Note: These courses were taught in a large, lecture-hall style by a faculty instructor. As Teaching Assistant, was responsible for running weekly, small-group seminar sessions with students. Held regular office hours and provided input on course construction and standards.
EMPLOYMENT
Indexer, Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Press). Fall 2025
Proofreader and Editorial Assistant, Of Course You Can: Rose Knox, 1857-1950. Summer 2025
Proofreader and Editorial Assistant, Writing for Nothing. Spring 2025
Proofreader and Editorial Assistant, Coastal Engineering. Spring 2024
Research Assistant to Dr. Judith Paltin. Summer 2021
University of British Columbia.
Research Assistant to Dr. Lara Vetter. 2019-2020
University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
PUBLICATIONS
“The Amazon and the Page: Textual Friendships and Activist Scholarship in Feminism’s Second Wave”. The New Americanist, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (Accepted for Review).
“Voyeurism, Desire, and Narrative Subversion in Colette’s Claudine Novels”. Women’s Writing, 31(2), April 2024. pp. 297-313.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talk, “Handmaking a Heritage: The Visual and Material Cultures of Second-Wave Feminism”. Friedman Feminist Press Presentation, Colorado State University, October 2025.
Panel Organizer, “Queer Modernist Print Infrastructures”. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA, 2025.
–. Presenter, “A Body of Work: Self-Publishing and the Authorial Body in Natalie Barney’s The One Who is Legion”.
Presenter, “The Amazon and the Page: Amateur Bibliography as Lesbian- Feminist Praxis in the Second Wave”. Queer Bibliography Conference, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, 2025.
Panel Organizer, “Archival Activisms: Resistance In/Through Print”. Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Sponsored Session, NeMLA Philadelphia, 2025.
Presenter, “Seducing Sappho: Queer Alliance and Literary Subgenre in the Works of Michel Field, Renée Vivien and H.D.” Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms Conference, USC Columbia, 2025.
Presenter, “’Vers Lesbos’: Mobile Geographies in H.D.’s Sapphic Verse”. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2024.
Presenter, “Stalking Djuna: Tracing Queer Feminist Modernisms in Fran Ross’s Oreo and Bertha Harris’s Lover”. NeMLA, Boston, MA, 2024.
Presenter, “The Queer Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal(l).” MLA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2023.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant, CSU Summer 2025
Four-Year Fellowship, University of British Columbia 2020-2024
Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, UNCC Summer 2020
The Ruff Graduate Research Scholarship, UNCC Summer 2019
A competitive scholarship designed to facilitate master’s thesis summer research.
SERVICE
To the Department
Member of Hiring Committee for Dr. Janice Ho, UBC 2021
To the University
Graduate Representative, Faculty Advisory Library Committee, UNCC 2018-2020
Graduate Representative, Faculty Council Collection Review Taskforce, UNCC 2019-2020
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