ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of California, Santa Barbara (July 2018-present)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, “WhatEvery1Says” Project (WE1S), UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
- Director, WE1S Curriculum Lab
- Lecturer, UCSB English Department
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Ph.D., English, June 2018
Yale University, B.A., English, May 2012
Cambridge University, Pembroke-King’s Programme, Summer 2010
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Nineteenth-Century British Literature; The Novel; Poetry; Literature and Science; Modernism; Sociology of Literature and Reading; History of the Book; Reception Studies; Victorian Popular Culture; History of Education; Archival Methods; Public Humanities; Digital Humanities
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Always Called Jack’: A Brief History of the Transferable Skill,” Victorian Periodicals Review 50.1 (Spring 2017): 39-65. Winner of the VanArsdel Prize, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
“Teaching Literature and Science in Silicon Valley,” Journal of Literature and Science 10.1 (Summer 2017): 58-64. Special joint issue with Configurations on the state of the field.
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UC Santa Barbara
- English 148RS, “Reading with Scientists: How to Export Literature” (Fall 2018)
- English 11, “Literature in the Real World: How to Solve Problems with Books” (Winter 2019)
- English 197, “Reading in Santa Barbara: Past, Present, and Future” (Spring 2019)
Stanford
- English 180B, “Reading Politics: The History and Future of Literacy” (Summer 2017)
- English 162-W, “Novels vs. Dinosaurs: Narratives of Evolution in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science” (Spring 2016)
- Program of Writing and Rhetoric 1GAD, “Display Cases and Databases: The Rhetoric of Collection” (Winter and Spring 2014)
Collaborative Teaching Experience
- Preparing Future Professors Program, Stanford and San José State Universities (Winter-Spring 2017)
- English 184H/STS 200D, “Text Technologies: A History,” Stanford (Fall 2014)
- Dickens Universe Community Discussion Seminar, UC Santa Cruz (Summers 2015 and 2018)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- CBS Bicentennial Narrators Scholarship, Stanford (2017-2018)
- Community Engagement Grant, Stanford Office of Community Engagement (2017)
- Cardinal Course Grant, Stanford Haas Center for Public Service (2017)
- Preparing Future Professors Fellowship, Stanford and San José State Universities (2017)
- VanArsdel Essay Prize, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2016)
- Modern British History and Culture Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford (2016)
- Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford (2016)
- Weiland Fellowship, Stanford (2015–2017)
- Collaborative Teaching Project Fellowship, Stanford (2014)
- Irma Curtis Anzini Fellowship, Stanford (2012-2016)
- John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English, Yale (2011)
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
- “Continuity and Juxtaposition,” Strategic Presentism Roundtable (convened and moderated by Caroline Levine), Modern Language Association Convention: States of Insecurity; New York (2018)
- “Reading Literature at a Science College,” Invited talk at the Stanford History of Science Workshop (2017)
- “Reading in Circles: Fiction, Popular Science, and the Mutual Improvement Society,” North American Victorian Studies Association: Social Victorians; Arizona State University (2016)
- “Transferrable Skills in Victorian Crime Fiction and Post-Recession Pedagogy,” British Association for Victorian Studies: Consuming (the) Victorians; Cardiff University (2016)
- “Victorian Literacy Politics and the Sensational Natural Histories (and Mysteries) of London and the Universe,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies: Natural and Unnatural Histories; Appalachian State (2016)
- “Expert Genres: Pickwick and Popular Science,” Dickens Universe Graduate Conference; UC Davis (2016)
- “A Panorama of Passions: Land in Balzac’s Comédie Humaine,” Society for Novel Studies: Land and the Novel; University of Utah (2014)
- “Generic Frames: Paratext and Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century British Decamerons,” Berkeley-Stanford Conference: TRANS-IT; UC Berkeley (2014)
- “‘I love you all I can, I think’: Transnational Humor in Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazilian Poetry,” Yale Graduate Conference: American Literature in the World (2013)
SELECTED SERVICE
- Pedagogy Committee, Stanford English Department (2013-2015)
- Collaborated to establish the Writing Intensive Seminars in English (WISE) program, a series of undergraduate courses taught by graduate students.
- Poetry Out Loud Committee, Stanford English Department (2012-2015)
- Archive Projects at Stanford, Stanford English Department (2015-2016)
- “Reading 1984 in 2017: Literary Criticism in the Community” (Fall 2017)
- Public Humanities partnership between the Stanford English Department and Hillsdale High School, supported by the Stanford Office of Community Engagement and the Stanford Humanities Center.
