EDUCATION
Ph.D. | University of Iowa, English, expected May 2026
M.A. | University of St. Thomas, English (Accelerated English B.A./M.A. Program), May 2020
B.A. | University of St. Thomas, English and Environmental Studies summa cum laude, May 2019
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“Radiant Bodies and Feminist Laboratories: Jean Rhys, Lee Miller, and the Modern Mannequin.” Co-authored with Emily James. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, spring 2022, pp. 80-113.
“Feminist Forms and Borderless Landscapes in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet.” Justice Framed: Proceedings from the 21st Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference, in Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, no. 21, spring 2021, pp. 105-114.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023, “Viral-Surrealism: The ‘Rebellious’ Ailments of Remedios Varo,” Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Brooklyn, New York
2022, “‘The Glacial Octopus’: Marianne Moore and the Poetics of Fragmentation,” Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Portland, Oregon
2022, "Leonora Carrington and Liminality: Writing Between the Feminine and the Natural in Surrealist Short Stories,” International Conference on Narrative, Virtual
2021, “Margins of Modernism: Crossing Aesthetic Boundaries in Artful Fiction,” International Conference on Narrative, Virtual
2021, “Feminist Forms and Borderless Landscapes in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet,” Craft Culture Critique Conference: Justice Framed, University of Iowa, Iowa
2020, “‘Like some watcher of the skies’: Contributions of Periodical Reader and Artist to Nineteenth-Century Atmospheric and Astronomic Inquiry,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies: “The Green Conference,” Los Angeles, California
2020, “Structural Damage and Environmental Discoveries in Ali Smith’s How to be Both,” Urban Experience Conference, University of St. Thomas Graduate Art History; Museum Studies; and English
2019, “The Evolution of Environmental Art: Visualizing the Relationship Between Humans and Nature Since the Nineteenth-Century,” National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Kennesaw State University, Georgia
2018, “Feminist Spaces: Making Room for Margaret Atwood and Virginia Woolf.” Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC) English Conference, Hamline University, Minnesota
2018, “A Fictional and Feminist Movement: Comparing the Voices of Margaret Atwood and Virginia Woolf,” Literati Undergraduate Research Conference, Madison, Wisconsin
GRANTS & AWARDS
Marcus Bach Graduate Fellowship. University of Iowa, 2025
T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship. University of Iowa, 2024
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship. University of Iowa, 2023
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Council on Teaching. University of Iowa, 2023
Helen K. Fairall Scholarship. University of Iowa, 2021-2025
The Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship. University of Iowa, 2020-2025
Graduate Travel Research Grant. “‘Picasso et le Paysage’: Environmental Consciousness in Modern Art,” University of St. Thomas / Toulon, France, January 2020
Research Assistantship under Dr. Emily James. “The Avant-Garde Photography of Lee Miller,”
University of St. Thomas, 2019-2020
Urban Agriculture Research. St. Thomas Community Gardens. University of St. Thomas, 2019
Sustainability Scholars Grant. “The Evolution of Environmental Art,” University of St. Thomas Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), May 2018-September 2018
Undergraduate Travel Grant. New York City, New York. University of St. Thomas UROP, July 2018
Undergraduate Travel Grant. London, England. St. Thomas English Department; St. Thomas Art History Department; UROP, August 2018
Sustainable Communities Partnership (SCP) Projects. University of St. Thomas, 2017-2018
Environmental Studies Scholarship. University of St. Thomas, 2018-2019
Academic and Board of Trustees’ Scholarships. Merit-based, tuition scholarship. 2015-2019
ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Rhetoric 1030: Artful Rhetoric, University of Iowa, 2022-2023
Instructor, Rhetoric 1030: Eco-Rhetoric, University of Iowa, 2021-2022
Writing Tutor, University of Iowa Writing Center, 2022
Teaching Assistant, Foundations of the English Major, University of Iowa, 2020-2021
INVITED TALKS & LECTURES
“Writing for the Environment: Interdisciplinary Research for English Majors,” University of St. Thomas, March 2024
“Sustainable + Surrealist Worlds,” Iowa English Department Colloquium, University of Iowa, April 2023
“Mannequins, Mythic Creatures, and Modernist Bodies,” Invited Talk, University of St. Thomas, March 2023
“Women and Environmental Art Forms.” Co-booked: Luann Dummer Center for Women; Sustainability Committee, University of St. Thomas, April 2021
“Darkroom Intimacies: Producing Surrealist Rayographs and Solarizations.” ENGL 202, Photography and Literature with Dr. Emily James, University of St. Thomas, September 2019
“Punk Feminism and ‘Zine Culture: A DIY Feminist Friday.” Co-facilitator. Luann Dummer Center for Women, University of St. Thomas, November 2019
COMMUNITY & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Peer mentor for the University of Iowa Department of English, 2022-2023
Liaison for the Stanley Campus Council, Stanley Museum of Art, 2021-2022
Social Chair for the Association of Graduate Students in English (AGSE), Department of English, University of Iowa, 2021-2022
Co-organizer for the Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, 2021-2022
President of Sustainability Club, University of St. Thomas, 2018-2019
Recipient of the Beverage Committee Grant (for compositing bike), University of St. Thomas, 2019
Coordinator for BrightSide Farmstands, University of St. Thomas, 2019.
Tutor at Benjamin E. Mays Elementary School with Reading Partners, Minneapolis, 2018-2019
Volunteer as a Tommie Ambassador, University of St. Thomas, 2018
Participant in the Manoa Valley Rainforest trail cleanup, University of Hawaii at Manoa, January 2018
Organizer for biannual Mississippi River cleanup, University of St. Thomas, 2018-2019
Assistant for Food Recovery Network, University of St. Thomas, 2018-2019
MEMBERSHIPS
Modernist Studies Association, 2021-present
The International Society for the Study of the Narrative, 2020-present
Modern Language Association, 2020-present
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
ArcGIS Project. “Tracing the Geographical Roots of Picasso’s Landscape Paintings.” Story Map created through UST graduate research travel in Toulon, France and Barcelona, Spain, Spring 2020
ArcGIS Work Group. “Using ArcGIS Story Maps for Teaching and Scholarship in the Humanities,” University of St. Thomas, Fall 2019
ArcGIS Environmental Studies Capstone Project. “Affordable Housing Proposal for the Metropolitan Council,” University of St. Thomas, Spring 2019
INTERNATIONAL STUDY
Ethics East and West, Honolulu, Hawaii, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, January 2018
Modern Irish Writing, Dublin, Ireland, at Trinity College Dublin, January 2017
Art History, London, England, January 2016