Education
M.A. Literature and Composition Studies Cal State University, San Marcos
B.A. Literatures in English University of California, San Diego
Publications
With Elizabeth C. Miller, “‘The Stepping Stones of Empire’: Conrad, Coal, and Oceanic Infrastructure,” Victorian Literature and Culture, September, 2024.
Fellowships & Grants
UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Support Award: 2024
Alva M. Englund Scholarship Fellowship, UC Davis: 2024
Deirdre Hackett Endowment for Experiential Learning, UC Davis: 2024
Bilinski Fellowship at Bodega Bay Marine Lab, UC Davis: 2021-2022.
Public Humanities
“Coast as Crisis: A Humanities-led Multi-Campus Graduate Working Group on Narratives, Ecologies, and Politics of the California Coast” a multicampus graduate student working group. Grant Awarded by University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Co-organized with Alison Maas: 2022-2023.
Developer and Co-Instructor of “Blue Humanities” curriculum, 2023.
Co-host “Education on the Rocks,” a bi-weekly education podcast, 2020 – 2024.
Research Interests
British Romanticism, Victorian Literatures, 19th Century Anglophone Ocean Literatures, Environmental Humanities (Oceanic Studies, Blue and Energy Humanities), Border Ecologies, Critical Surf Studies, Climate Fiction