Position Title
Lecturer
Early modern British literature and science; intellectual histories; history of science; reproductive metaphors of authorship.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
(Visiting Lecturer, 2019 – 2020)
Theory and Methodology (Graduate Seminar) – Instructor*
Written English I (Composition requirement, undergraduate) – Instructor
University of California, Davis
(Lecturer, 2022 – present; Graduate Student Instructor, 2014 – 2022)
Advanced Composition (UWP 101), Advanced principles of academic and professional writing
English Grammar (ENL 106 / LIN 106 / UWP 106), Major grammatical structures of English
Topics in 18th-Century Literature (ENL 123), “Wild and Wayward Women”
Topics in 16th- and 17th-Century Literature (ENL 115), “Early Modern Ways of Knowing”
Topics in Literature (ENL 149), “Witches, Virgins, Mothers, and Other Assorted Monsters”
Introductory Topics in Literature (ENL 40), “Liberty”
Literatures in English I: Anglo-Saxon to 1700 (ENL 10A), “Authorship and Authority” – 2 sections
Introduction to Literature (ENL 3) Literary analysis, analytical writing – 11 sections*
Writers’ Workshop (ENL 3A) Academic literacies; analytical writing – 4 sections*
Expository Writing (UWP 1 / UWP 1Y) Rhetorical analysis, analytical writing – 7 sections*
Topics: “Civic Literacy”; “Scientific Literacy and Access”; “Gender and STEM”
Chaucer, “Troilus” & Minor Poems (ENL 113A) – Teaching Assistant; Section Instructor
Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENL 123) – Teaching Assistant; Section Instructor
Writing Science (ENL 164/STS 164) – Teaching Assistant
Medieval Studies: The Early Middle Ages (MST 20A) – Teaching Assistant
Writing in the Health Sciences (UWP 104F) – Reader
History of Science: The Scientific Revolution (HIS 136) – Reader
Ph.D., English Literature, Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis, 2022
M.A., English, Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, Wright State University, 2014
B.A., English, University of North Florida, 2009
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Academic Federation Committee on Research Travel Award (2024)
Dean’s Summer Fellowship, College of Letters and Science, UC Davis (2022)
Business Development Fellowship, UC Davis Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (2021-22)
Obama Institute Visiting Lecturer Exchange, Johannes Gutenberg University (2019-20)
Shakespeare Association Annual Meeting Travel Award (2019)
Continuing PhD Summer Dissertation Fellowships (2019, 2021)
Graduate Language Fellowship (2016)
Alva Englund Fellowship, UC Davis (2014-15)
English Department Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis (2014-15)
WSU College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2014)
WSU Foundation Board of Trustees Fellowship (2014)
WSU English Department Graduate Tuition Fellowship (2013-14)
UNF Women’s Center Scholarships (2007, 2008)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Foreign Relations: Utopian Fictions and the Birth of Scientific Citizenship.” Cultures of Twenty-First Century Citizenship, edited by M. Banerjee and V. Evans. Transcript, 2023.
“’this strange intelligence’: Maternity and Occult Knowledge in Macbeth.” Shakespeare Association of America. April 17-21, 2019. Washington, DC.
“Early Modern Science and the Maternal Logic of Authorship.” Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society. October 18-21, 2017. Portland, OR.
“An Impossible Ideal: Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Criticism 58.3 (2017).
“with all bound humbleness: Authority in All’s Well That Ends Well.” Wright State University Department of English. Presented May, 2014. Dayton, OH.
“Motherhood and Monstrosity From Mary Toft to Merope Gaunt.” Northeast Modern Language Association. April 3-6, 2014. Harrisburg, PA.
“Damsels in Distress: Constructed Gender Roles in Scientific Discourse and the Childbirth Experience.” Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium. February 1, 2013. Oxford, Ohio.