About

I am a first-year PhD student at Princeton interested in the material text and its shifting nature in the late Victorian. I received my BA, summa cum laude with departmental honors, in historical period English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. I am also a member of the international honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, and the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta.

My honors thesis at Penn was an archival project that focused on the ability of material texts to prejudice nineteenth-century American English departments against the writing of popular authors, especially those published in “subliterary” formats or on mechanical-pulp paper. I was also awarded the 2018 Dosoretz Family Prize for best essay by a graduating senior and honorable mention for the 2017 Sweeten Prize, awarded to the best essay on American literature.

I am a Feminist, a Humanist, and a Latinist.

I also hold an avid interest in early film, especially those of Fritz Lang and Carl Dreyer, and a strong desire to learn a lot more everything about the Digital Humanities.

In addition to these scholarly considerations, I make the best chili you’ll ever have, brew my own beer, and enjoy pickling and canning the vegetables from my garden—including fermenting my own hot sauce! My brilliant, industrious partner Julia and our pound puppy Harper are my steadfast comrades through these adventures (they’ve also been great sports regards my chanting Latin conjugations for hours on end).

Awards

Awards

    • Bachelor of Arts, Summa cum Laude with Distinction in English
    • Phi Betta Kappa/Sigma Tau Delta
    • 2018 Dosoretz Family Prize for best essay by a graduating senior
    • Honorable Mention, 2017  Nancy Rafetto Leach Sweeten prize for best undergraduate essay on American Literature
    • Dean’s List, 2015-2016; 2016-2017; 2017-2018.

Internships & Work Experience

    • Writer at LitCharts.com
    • Author of the study guide for Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles, and Alger’s Ragged Dick.
    • Student Research Assistant & Website Designer, Price Lab for the Digital Humanities’ Ulysses Seen Project.
    • Website Designer for Dr. Melissa Wilde, UPenn Sociology

Papers

Graduate

Undergraduate

I specialized in Historical Period Literature at Penn, which means I’ve had the opportunity to study and write about authors from nearly every period of English Literature (as well as some Classical Latin Literature). Like most students, perhaps like most writers, I’ve come to wonder what I was thinking with my earlier works. Nevertheless, I’m confident they highlight both the range of literary works I’ve engaged as well as my growth as a writer. All papers available on request.

GPA

Overall: 3.94
In Major: 4.0

Spring 2018

Honors Option

Course: ENGL299: Honors Independent Study.
Adviser: Emily Steinlight.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Paper: “Noname, Nemo, Nameless: The Author as Material Bias in the Henry Reed Papers.”

Digital Humanities

Course: ENGL505 (Graduate Level): Digital Humanities.
Professor: Whitney Trettien.
Project/Course Grade: A/A
Project: Différance.

Post-19th-Century American Literature

Course: ENGL583 (Graduate Level): Kinship, Sexuality, Indigeneity.
Professor: Nancy Bentley.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Paper: “Dead Fruit from the Matrix: Abortion as Fulcrum in Jewett’s Country of Pointed Firs.”

Fall 2017

Honors Option

Course: ENGL311: The Honors Seminar.
Adviser: Emily Steinlight.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Paper: “Noname, Nemo, Nameless: The Author as Material Bias in the Henry Reed Papers.”

Medieval Literature

Course: ENGL525 (Graduate Level): Chaucer and Boccaccio.
Professor: David Wallace.
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A+
Paper: “More Medieval than the Medieval: A Material Examination of the Kelmscott Chaucer, its Antecedents, and its Motivations.”*

*Winner, 2018 Dosoretz Family Prize for best undergraduate essay by a graduating senior.

Junior Research Seminar

Course: ENGL200: Speculation: American Futures.
Professor: Clinton Williamson.
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A+
Paper: “The Fears of a Clown: Historicizing the Masks of King’s Pennywise.”

Spring 2017

18th-Century British Literature

Course: ENGL574 (Graduate Level): Introduction to Bibliography, From Gutenberg to Google Books.
Professors: Zachary Lesser (Undergraduate Chair) and Mitch Fraas.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Paper: “Infected Sentences: Violent and viral transmission of polemic through material texts.”

Modernism

Course: ENGL210: Joyce’s Ulysses: Making Readings.
Professors: Paul Saint-Amour and Rob Berry.
Project/Course Grade: A+/A+
Project: BiCyclops: A Ulysses Project.

Fall 2016

Renaissance Literature

Course: ENGL430 (MLA Proseminar): Shakespeare’s Variations.
Professor: Zachary Lesser (Undergraduate Chair).
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A+
Project: Wikipedia: “Der Bestrafte Brudermord”

19th-Century American Literature

Course: ENGL253: Melville, Stowe, & Douglass.
Professor: Nancy Bentley.
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A
Paper: “Broken Hallelujahs: A Critical Addendum to Brodtkorb’s Selfhood and Otherness.”*

*Honorable Mention, 2017 Nancy Rafetto Leach Sweeten prize for best undergraduate essay on American Literature

Cross-Cultural Analysis

Course: CINE365/RUSS426: Chekhov: Stage & Screen.
Professor: Vera Zubarev.
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A+
Paper: “Jaws: A Blockbuster of a New Type.”

Spring 2016

Medieval Literature

Course: ENGL221: Chivalry, Monstrosity, & Romance.
Professor: David Wallace.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Paper: “If the subaltern speaks, should we burn her? Feminine systems of knowledge within Arthurian legend.”

Film

Course: ENGL092: World Film History: 1945-Present.
Professor: Timothy Corrigan.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Paper: “Lost in the Supermarket: A brief survey of the formal elements of traditional work in City of God.”

Fall 2015

Literary Theory

Course: ENGL294: Theory as the Letter B.
Professor: Jean-Michel Rabaté.
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A
Paper: “Convergent identities: The abolition of space in the universal history of “Tom Castro”

19th-Century British Literature

Course: ENGL101: Dickens and Film.
Professor: Emily Steinlight.
Paper/Course Grade: A+/A
Paper: “That old time religion: Monetary and moral binaries in Great Expectations”

Literature of Other Languages

Latin

Courses: LATN203/LATN204: Latin Prose/Latin Poetry.
Professor: Patrick Glauthier.
Paper/Course Grade: A/A
Works Read: The Satyricon of Petronius/The Aeneid of Vergil.

Contact

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m always interested in feedback on my work and the possibility of collaborations—and, of course, in answering any questions you might have. Use the form below to get in touch if you’d like, and I’ll respond as quickly as possible!