Currently Teaching:
- 115 - Topics in 16th- & 17th-Century Literature
Biography:
Education:
Ph.D. in English with a designated emphasis in classics and classical receptions, 2019
Dissertation: "Questioning Reproduction in Seventeenth-Century English Literature"
M.A. in English, Chapman University, 2012
B.A. in English with a history minor, Chapman University, 2010
Research Interests: early modern English literature; gender and sexuality; the reception of ancient philosophy in Renaissance England
Publications:
"Hedone in Eden: The Queerness of Pleasure in Paradise Lost." Milton Quarterly 56 (2023): 127-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12426.
"'Quitting Nature's Part': The Reproductive Quest in Dryden's Virgil." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 45.2 (Fall 2019): 193-218. https://doi.org/10.1163/23526963-04502005.
Podcast review: “That Shakespeare Life.” Early Modern Digital Humanities 6.2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v46i2.42303.
Conference Presentations:
"'Pity and Fear'": Early Modern Tragedy as Horror Fiction"
Shakespeare Association of America 52nd Annual Meeting
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, OR, 11 April 2024
"'Pregnant with Infernal Flame': The Reproductive Spaces of Paradise Lost"
119th Annual PAMLA Conference
UCLA Luskin Conference Center and Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, 12 November 2022
"Hedone in Eden: The Queerness of Pleasure in Paradise Lost"
UC Santa Barbara Early Modern Center annual conference (Queer Crossings, Unruly Locales, 1500-1800), 28-29 February 2020
"The Philosophy of Reproduction in All's Well That Ends Well"
Shakespeare Association of America 46th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 31 March 2018
"'Unpeople the Province with Continency': Questioning Reproductive Logic in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure"
Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, IL, 28 January 2017
Teaching:
ENL 41: Introductory Topics in Literature & Media (Topic: How to Make a Monster: Frankenstein on Page and Screen)
ENL 3: Introduction to Literature (2015-2024)
ENL 111: Topics in Medieval Literature (Topic: Medieval Adaptations) (Fall 2023)
ENL 3A: Writers' Workshop (2019-2023)
ENL 110A: Introduction to Literary Theory (2021-2023)
ENL 10A: Literatures in English I: To 1700 (Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2023)
ENL 149: Topics in Literature (Topic: From Greek Tragedy to Modern Horror) (Winter 2023)
ENL 155A: 18th Century British Novel (Fall 2022)
ENL 117: Shakespeare (Summer Session II 2022)
ENL 149: Topics in Literature (Topic: Paradise Lost and the Classics) (Fall 2019, Spring 2022)
ENL 40: Introductory Topics in Literature (Topic: Philosophy and/as Literature) (Spring 2022)
ENL 40: Introductory Topics in Literature (Topic: "Pity and Fear": From Greek Tragedy to Modern Horror) (Winter 2022)
ENL 40: Introductory Topics in Literature (Topic: Shakespeare and the Classics) (Spring 2020, Winter 2022)
UWP 1: Introduction to Academic Literacies (2013-2015, Spring 2020)
ENL 122: Milton (Fall 2015)