Position Title
Lecturer
Wednesdays 11:00 to 1:00p.m. via Zoom and by appointment
Research Areas:
Science and Technology Studies; Materialism (historical and scientific); Writing Studies and Pedagogy; Decolonial Studies; Film and Media Studies; Science and Poetics; Transnational American Literature; Modernist Poetry; Modernity; Literature and the Environment; Diversity in Higher Education (curriculum and access).
Teaching Areas:
Education:
2021 Ph.D.in English, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (Defended April 23)
2012 M. A. in English with a Certificate in Teaching College Composition, California State University, Sacramento, CA
2004 TEFL Certificate, Via Lingua School of English, Chania, Crete, Greece
2002 B.A. in English, Minor in Classics, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan
Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
"Diffractive Poetics in William Carlos Williams’s Paterson.” Chapter in edited collection: Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory and Critique. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. Published May 27, 2021. Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique - 9781786613967 (rowman.com)
“Introduction” to Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader. Coauthored with Lee Olsen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2020. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/ethics-after-poststructuralism/
Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections:
Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader. Co-Editor with Ann Keniston and Lee Olsen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2020. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/ethics-after-poststructuralism/
Other Publications:
“Social Distancing, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Other.” Humanities Heart-to-Heart Series. Nevada Humanities. September 2020. https://www.nevadahumanities.org/heart-to-heart/2020/9/28/social-distancing-emmanuel-levinas-and-the-other
- 2025 Professional Development Award. Organized Panel and Presented on Transnational Ecopoetics. Associaton of the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Conference at University of Maryland. Awarded by Office of Vice-Provost of UC Davis. 202
- 2024 Research Grant: Professional Development Award. The Melvin B. Tolson Papers and Ralph Ellison Collection. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. Awarded by Office of Vice-Provost of UC Davis.
- 2021 Outstanding PhD Student. English Graduate Organization. University of Nevada, Reno
- 2020 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship. National Fellowship from Bilinski Educational Foundation. Awarded by the UNR College of Liberal Arts.
- 2019 James Q. and Cleo K. Ronald Dissertation Fellowship. University of Nevada, Reno.