Education
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching Interests
As a faculty member at North Carolina Wesleyan, I often have the chance to teach across traditional disciplinary boundaries, as I do in my course on 19th- through 21st-century British literature which focuses on the development of British national identity from the time of slavery to the present. Moreover, I appreciate that NCWU maintains small class sizes so that students can forge long-lasting professional relationships with their instructors and peers. I not only enjoy mentoring English majors until they graduate—and sometimes beyond—but also working with them on projects and events for our chapter of the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, which invites our majors to make the fullest use of their studies. I’m also currently serving as editor of NCWU’s undergraduate research journal, Omnium, and have been a member of the Wesleyan Singers since 2019.

Research
My research interests include Victorian literature and culture, particularly 19th-century writings on gender, maternity, and violence. My scholarly work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Review, Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victoriographies, Oxford Bibliographies, Pedagogy, The Journal of Popular Culture, and in other venues. My professional CV can be found here.

Courses Taught