CV

b.1989

Phoenix, AZ

Academic Employment

Washington & Lee University

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Director of the Writing Program

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, UCI (2022)

MA, Comparative Literature, UCI (2016)

Post-Baccalaureate, Classics, UCLA (2013)

BA, Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College (2011)

My first book project, The Poetry of Origins: Race, Empire, and the Making of English Ode, reevaluates the ode and its influence on the study of lyric poetry. Whereas literary critics from the eighteenth century onward have viewed the ode as a constitutive genre of Western literature, I show that its development is essentially modern. Examining the Atlantic context of the ode, I trace how this genre became a medium for allegories of colonial authority that relied upon a racialized sense of literary futurity.

Research Interests

• Comparative literature and poetics; transatlantic modernity; the history of literary theory & criticism; classical theories of aesthetics and their reception.

Peer-reviewed Articles

• “‘Anthems Dark’: Race, Fancy, and ‘the Soaring Fortunes of the Lyric’" [under revision].

• “‘Oblivions Sable Shore’: Phillis Wheatley Peters at the Limits of Lyric History,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 64, No. 1 [forthcoming].

• “‘How the World Really Ends’: Adorno on Working through Catastrophes to Come,” Cultural Critique 109 (Fall 2020), 112-138.

Criticism and other writing (selected)

• Review, The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies [accepted].  

• Review, The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation by Lenora Hanson, Studies in Romanticism (Winter 2023): 541–552.

• “Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational,” The Georgia Review 75, no. 4 (Winter 2021), 1061-77.

• “On Jay Wright’s The Prime Anniversary,” The Georgia Review 74, no. 2 (Summer 2020), 55-9.

Fellowships and Awards (selected)

• Lenfest Grant for Summer Research, WLU, 2023.

• Mellon-Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Columbia University, 2021-22.

• Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Humanities Scholarship, UCI, Summer, 2020.

• Dorothy and Donald Strauss Dissertation & Thesis Fellowship, UCI, Winter and Spring quarters, 2020.

• Predoctoral Fellowship, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William A. Clark Memorial Library, October, 2019. 

• Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library, August and September, 2019. 

• Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, 2013-2014.

Presentations and panels

• “Fragments of Colonial Time in Equiano, Cowper, and Wedderburn,” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, College of William & Mary, 2023.

• “Genres of the Atlantic,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, 2023 [organizer].

• “Lyric Environments at the Dawn of Liberalism,”Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2022 [invited].  

• “New Formalisms and the Form of the New,” book launch, Catherine Malabou, Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Tyler Williams (ed.), 2022 [invited]. 

• “‘The Shapes that Fancy Gives’: Primitivism and Poetic Inspiration from Spenser to Cavendish,” “Early Cultures Conference: Historical Corporealities,” UCI, 2020.

• “Fancy’s Flowing Sea: Classicism, Primitivism, and the Atlantic Ode,” “Historical Poetics Now” for the panel “Common Forms of Empire,” UT Austin, 2019. 

• “Hölderlin: Poetics Under Pressure,” American Comparative Literature Association, for the panel “Prosthetic Immortalities: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Logic of Survival,” UCLA, 2018.

• “How the World Really Ends: Adorno on the Anthropocene,” “New Materialisms and Economies of Excess,” Emory, 2016.

• “The Powers of Ekstasis,” “Early Cultures Conference: Feeling History,” UCI, 2016.

Teaching Experience and Syllabi

• Professor, “Currents of Romantic Revolutions,” WLU, 2024.

• Professor, “Atlantic Worlds, Atlantic Violence,” WLU, 2023.

• Professor, “Metaphysical Poetics,” WLU, 2023.

• Professor, “Civil War,” WLU, 2022-3.

• Writing Consultant, Graduate & Postdoctoral Scholar Resource Center, UCI, 2020-2021. 

• Teaching Associate, Comparative Literature, CL10, "The End: Fear, Fiction, and the Future," Summer Session, UCI 2020.

• Instructor, Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English, UCI 2016-2019.

• Co-author of the syllabus for the “Space, Projection, Expression, Immanence” and “Time and the Negative” reading seminars with Carlos Colmenares Gil and Catherine Malabou, Spring 2018 and ‘19.  

• Co-author of  the syllabus for the Inter-UC EcoMaterialisms Collective reading group, "Scales of Matter(ing)," 2015-2016.

• Tutor, Latin, Department of Classics, UCI, 2015-2016.

• TA, Roman History and Greek Mythology, Department of Classics, UCI, 2014-16.

Languages

• Latin (advanced), Ancient Greek (intermediate), German (intermediate), Spanish (beginning), French (reading).