Biography:
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Environmental Humanities, Critical Geography, Queer and Trans Studies
Teaching at UC Davis:
Associate Instructor
ENL 3: Introduction to Literature (Summer 2022 to Present)
UWP1: Introduction to Academic Literacies (Fall 2020 to Spring 2022)
Awards and Fellowships:
Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Dissertation Fellowship, 2024-2025
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Graduate Student Travel Grant 2022
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Digital Conference Fellow, 2020
Dean’s Summer Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis, 2020
Walter and Dianne Harrison Summer Research Grant, UC Davis, 2020
Alfred R. Ferguson Prize for Best Essay in American Literature, Umass Boston, 2017
Selected Publications:
Book Review of Breathing Aesthetics by Jean-Thomas Tremblay in Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 2024. Link.
“A Dyke in Alameda County––or––The Geographies of A Queen in Bucks County” Annulet: A Journal of Poetics. September, 2023. Link.
Interview with Julian Chow on Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History, G19 Collective, August 2023. Link.
“Outside Form: On Writing Within the Environmental Humanities.” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, special issue on “Becoming Undisciplined.” January 2022. Link.
"A Map of Point Reyes." Edge Effects, September 2021. Link.
Poetry in Denver Quarterly, Lavender Review, Beaver Magazine, Wildness, and Leon Review.
Public Humanities:
Institute for Speculative and Critical Inquiry’s “Queer Theory Rewilded” Summer School, University of California Berkeley, June 2020