Focus Areas

Hemispheric Literatures, Marine Environmental Studies,

Modern and Contemporary Literatures


Degrees

P.H.D. in English, University of Virginia, 2019

M.A. in Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island, 2011

B.A. in English, Middlebury College, 2008 Minor: Environmental Studies


Dissertation


Novels of the Floating World: Ocean, Climate, and Contemporary Sea Fiction (completion expected 2019)

  • Committee: Anna Brickhouse, Mary Kuhn, Njelle Hamilton



Recent Publications:

Forthcoming: “Archipelago’s Voyage: Climate and Seamanship in Monique Roffey’s Contemporary Sea Novel” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment

2017: “Review of Steve Mentz Shipwreck Modernity.” Resilience. 4.1

2012: “The Lost Mother: Overfishing and the Discourse of Gender in Morrissey’s Sylvanus Now” Coriolis: Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies Vol. 3, Issue 1 pp. 21-40

Fellowships:

2018: Center for the Americas/Centro de las Américas Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia

2017: Public Humanities Fellowship in South Atlantic Studies, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

2015: Humanities Teaching Fellow, Sea Education Assocation

2014: Mellon Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia


Conference Activities:

2018 “With Only the Wind in their Hands: Maritime Modernisms and Marine Ecosystem People” American Comparative Literature Association, March 29-April 1. Los Angeles, CA

2017 “The Cloak, the Boat and the Shoes:” Selkie Mythology and Environmental Justice in J.M. Synge.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Biennial Conference. June 20-24. Detroit, MI

2017 Panel Organizer: “Local Exposures/Collective Weathering” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Biennial Conference. June 20-24. Detroit, MI

2017 Publicity Manager and Logistics Coordinator: Beyond Representation: Creative and Critical Practice in the Environmental Humanities. UVa. Environmental Humanities Symposium. April 16-18. Charlottesville, VA

2017 “A Novel of the Floating World: Gyre Memory, Marine Debris, and Species Transport in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. January 5-8 Philadelphia, PA.

2015 “Diving into the Wreck: Fathoming History and the ‘Infested Ocean’ in Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom.” Caribbean Studies Association 40th Annual Conference. May, 25-29. New Orleans, LA.

2014 “Océan’s Reefs: Familial and Emotional Reanimation in Monique Roffey’s Archipelago. 86th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 7-9. Atlanta, GA.

2014 “Our Part in it All:” Human Ecology and the Imperiled Ocean in Peter Matthiessen’s Far Tortuga and Monique Roffey’s Archipelago. 20th International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology. October 22-25. College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME.

2014 “Mother-fish: Overfishing, the Gendering of Atlantic Cod, and Donna Morrissey’s Sylvanus Now” Atlantic World Foodways Conference, January 30-February 2. University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

2011 “Beyond the Aquarium: An Urban Environmental Pedagogy” Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Conference, June 23-26. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT