Curriculum vitae!
Updated November 10, 2024
EDUCATION
Ph.D. candidate, The University of Texas at Austin (Aug. 2021 – present, expected graduation May 2027)
Supervisor: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Doctoral portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies track
Candidate from Nov. 2024, prospectus approved May 2024
Comprehensive exam passed Dec. 2023
M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin (May 2023)
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark (May 2020)
Supervisor: Cathy Park Hong
B.A., Philosophy and English & American Literature, New York University (May 2018)
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
RESEARCH
REFEREED ARTICLES
“(Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present,” Journal of Popular Romance Studies, vol. 12 (Jun. 2023)
“The Normativity Problem as a Serious Obstacle to Modeling Gender,” Aporia, vol. 18, no. 2 (Dec. 2018)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin (May 2024 – present)
– Researched American literature from 1865 to 1914 to support Dr. Gretchen Murphy’s editorship of the 11th Edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. C
BOOK REVIEWS
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant, E3W Review of Books, vol. 24 (Spring 2024)
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges, E3W Review of Books, vol. 23 (Spring 2023)
CULTURAL CRITICISM
“Their Foot Shall Slide in Due Time,” Fran Magazine, issue 113 (Jul. 2024)
“On the Meaninglessness of Being Trans,” Bright Wall/Dark Room, issue 120 (Jun. 2023)
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“‘A failed man is often the most dangerous’: Failure, Impossibility, and Outlaw Intimacy in Red Dead Redemption 2,” 19th Annual Conference of the Graduate Organization for Comparative Literature Students, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (Oct. 2024)
“The Gothic and Monsters” (roundtable), 2023 Latinx Critical Creative Consortium, Austin, TX (Nov. 2023)
“‘My Dune’: Race, Ownership, and Nonsexual Erotics on the Desert Planet,” 2023 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX (Apr. 2023)
“‘It isn’t enough’: A Virtual Utopian Triptych,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 44th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM (Feb. 2023)
“Friendship and Closeness Past Gender and Sex: An Intimate Visit with the Public Universal Friend,” Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions, The University of Texas at Austin (May 2022)
“‘The only thing that makes dying this young fair’: 29th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (Mar. 2022)
“‘Seven hours old, beautiful to behold’: The Aesthetic Stakes of Love Between Created Beings and Their Creators in Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” WisCon 43, a Feminist Science Fiction Convention, Society for the Furtherance and Study of Science Fiction, Madison, WI (May 2019)
PANELS MODERATED
“Temporal Poetics,” 19th Annual Conference of the Graduate Organization for Comparative Literature Students, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX (Oct. 2024)
“Fabulative Feminisms,” Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions, The University of Texas at Austin (May 2022)
“‘Queer’ as In…” and “Borders and the United Earth,” WisCon 43, a Feminist Science Fiction Convention, Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2019)
“Science Fiction and the Role of Violence,” WisCon 41, a Feminist Science Fiction Convention, Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2017)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Instructor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
E 314J: Literature and Film (Fall 2024)
Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin
E 309J: Rhetoric of Romance (Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
E 306: Rhetoric and Writing (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
Part-Time Lecturer, Writing Program, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark
English Composition 102 (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
100 Writing Workshop (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
English Composition 101 (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
Part-Time Lecturer, Creative Writing Program, Rutgers—Newark
Introduction to Creative Writing (Fall 2019)
Guest teaching
E 350V: Contemporary Gothic, guest lecture on “Memory” by Stephen King (Oct. 2023)
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Summer 2024)
Masterworks of American Literature (Fall 2021, Summer 2022)
Masterworks of World Literature (Spring 2022)
Workshop Leader, Graduate School—Newark, Rutgers—Newark
“Writing Like an Academic” (Oct. 2020, Feb. 2021, Jul. 2021)
“How to Write an Article” (Jun. 2021)
“Presentation Tips” (Apr. 2021)
“Becoming a Resilient Writer” (Mar. 2021)
“Short Scholarly Writing” (Mar. 2021)
“Managing Your Research” (Mar. 2021)
“Mastering APA and MLA” (Oct. 2020)
“Critical Reading” (Feb. 2020)
CREATIVE WRITING
Published poems
“Dastardly” and “A Man of My Own Sex,” Grist, issue 14 (Jun. 2022)
“The King James Wet-n-Wild Divinely Inspired Version of the Bible for Cool Teens Who Party Hard,” Pigeon Pages (Dec. 2020)
“Disemboweled Sonnet for Telling Your Crush You Like Him in the Waning Hours of the Party,” Strange Horizons (Jan. 2020)
“Land Ho!” FreezeRay Poetry, issue 17 (Jul. 2019)
Invited readings
The Socially Distant 2nd Year Readings (Rutgers-Newark MFA) with Caitlin Dudek via Zoom (Mar. 2021)
Rutgers-Newark MFA Reading with Joshua Irwin-Salinas and Spencer Williams at KGB Bar, New York, NY (Feb. 2020)
Quick Cuts at Virile Barber Shop, Jersey City, NJ (Feb. 2019)
Author Talks Reading Series at Military Park, Newark, NJ (Sep. 2018)
New Voices Reading, featuring headliners Bob Holman and Joseph Fasano at Poets House, New York, NY (Nov. 2016)
SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial leadership
Special Section Editor, “Incarceration and Biopower,” E3W Review of Books, vol. 25
Special Section Editor, “Bodies That Matter Now, Yesterday, and Tomorrow: Health, Disability, and Biopolitics,” E3W Review of Books, vol. 24
Special Section Co-Editor (with Sarah Frankie Summers), “Coalitions of Practices and Power: Gender, Sexuality, and Resistance,” E3W Review of Books, vol. 23
INSTITUTIONAL AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Working groups
Co-organizer, Speculative Reading Group (2023 – present)
Committees and subcommittes
Graduate Climate Committee, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin (Chair from 2023) (2022 – present)
Graduate Program Committee, Department of English (Graduate Studies Committee ex officio) (2023-2024)
Graduate Program Professional Development Funding Subcommittee, Department of English (2023-2024)
Search Committee for Chair of Department of English (2023)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director, New Writers Project (Creative Writing MFA Program), Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin (2023 – present)
Teaching Artist, Badgerdog Creative Writing Summer Camp (Austin, TX) (2022 – present)
Writing Tutor, Writing Center, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark (2018-2021)
Editor-in-Chief, Minetta Review (Poetry Assistant Editor from 2015-2017) (2017-2018)
Outreach Program Teacher, Department of Philosophy, New York University (2017-2018)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Society for Disability Studies
Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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