Education

2020 Ph.D. in English, University of Missouri

Dissertation: “Occupy, Blockade, Circulate: Narrating Community in 21st Century Crisis Fiction.”

2015 MA in English, California State University, Fullerton

with certificate in teaching writing

2012 BA in English, California State University, Fullerton

Teaching

2024-Present Mount Marty University, Assistant Professor of English

2 sections of English 103: The Essay

2 sections of English 104: Critical Writing

1 section of English 210: Introduction to Literature (Contemporary Literary Awards)

1 section of English 210: Introduction to Literature (offered at Yankton Federal Prison Camp)

1 section of English 286: Environmental Literature

1 section of English 344: Recent British Literature

1 section of English 356: The Novel (and Totality)

1 section of English 490: Senior Seminar

2023-2024 University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Herbert Postdoctoral Fellow

3 sections of English 101: English Composition 1

3 sections of English 102: English Composition 2

2021-2023 Oxford College of Emory University, Visiting Assistant Professor of English

10 sections of English 185: Writing and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts

1 section of English 186: Writing and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts for Multilingual Students

2 sections of English 348W: Contemporary Literature and Environmental Justice

1 section of English 399R: Independent Study (Transcendentalism)

2020-21 University of Wisconsin, School of Business (Lecturer)

6 sections of General Business 360: Workplace Writing & Communication

2015-2020 University of Missouri, English (Graduate Student Instructor)

9 sections of English 1000: Exposition and Argumentation

3 sections of English/Film 1800: Introduction to Film Studies

2 sections of English 1310: Introduction to American Literature

1 section of English/Missouri Studies 2310H: Missouri Writers

1 section of English 2100: Writing about Literature

2019 Moberly Area Community College, English (Lecturer)

1 section of English 102: Composition II

2014-2015 California State University, Fullerton, English (Graduate Student Instructor)

2 sections of English 101: Beginning College Writing

Other Instructional Experience

2023-Present University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Writing Tutor

2018, University of Missouri, TA

English 1160: Themes in Literature (Instructor of Record: Samuel Cohen)

2012-2014, California State University, Fullerton, Instructional Student Assistant

Six sections of English 99: Developmental Writing

One section of English 101: Beginning College Writing

Two sections of English 100W: Analytic College Writing Workshop

One section of English 345T: Trends and Movements in English Studies and Comparative Literature

2012-2014, California State University, Fullerton, Writing Tutor

Publications

“An Eerie Cacophony: Forms of the Collective in Occupy Novels”, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings. 8(1), 2020, n.p.

Rev. of Infrastructures of Apocalypse by Jessica Hurley. Association for the Study of Arts of the Present/ Journal. April 2021.

“The Lands Between Story and Gameplay.” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present/ Journal. April 2023.

“Looking at the ‘Infra’ of Infrastructure.” Post45. July 2024.

Presentations

“This is How the World Looks: Fugitive Genres of the Metabolic Rift.” The Association for the Study of Arts of the Present 14. University of Washington. October 2023.

“Unsettling Ecologies of the Social.” Panel Moderator. The Association for the Study of Arts of the Present 14. University of Washington. October 2023.

“Surplus Rhetoric: Genres of Deaccumulation.” Growing Pains: Contemporary Culture and the Crisis of Growth Symposium. University College Dublin. June 2023.

“Supply-Side Genre.” The Association for the Study of Arts of the Present 13. UCLA. September 2022.

“Factory Floor Horror: Ghost Stories of Secular Stagnation” The Association for the Study of Arts of the Present 12. Online. October 2021.

“There is No There There: Resource Extraction in Contemporary Fiction.” Panel Organizer & Chair. The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. University of Louisville. February 2020.

“I Wanted to Hear My Own Voice: Climate Change and the Affective Fallacy.” Seminar, “Cli-i and Beyond.” American Comparative Literature Association. Georgetown University. March 2019.

“History, the Archive, and the Contemporary in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. University of Louisville. February 2018.

“An Occupation for a Saint: A Historical Case for Presence in Eliot and Woolf.” The T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting. Peer Seminar. Washington University in St. Louis. 2017.

“A to B: Generic Tension in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad.” Modern and Contemporary Studies Initiative. Pennsylvania State University. 2017.

“A Projection of Several Futures: Alternative Arrangements in Ben Lerner’s 10:04.” Midwestern Modern Language Association. St Louis, MO. 2016.

“A Historiography of Chaos: Narrative Identity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Acacia Conference. California State University, Fullerton. 2015.

“Rhizomal Masculinity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Sigma Tau Delta Far Western Regional Conference. California State University, Fullerton. 2013.

“Fleeing to Scotland: Political Revolution and Dissidence in Macbeth.” California State University Shakespeare Symposium. California State University, Fullerton. 2012.

Service

Faculty Research Committee (2024)

Treble Hook Associate Editor (2024)

Paddlefish Associate Editor (2024)

English Education Program Administrator (2024)

Equitable Assessment in First-Year Writing Pilot (2023)

Mellon Seminar for Labor in the Humanities (2022-23)

General Business Program Hiring Committee (2021)

Composition Staff (2018-19)

President, Americanist Student Association (2017-18)

Graduate Peer Mentor (2018, 2020)

EGSA Representative to Composition Committee (2016-17)

Treasurer, Americanist Student Association (2016-17)

President, Sigma Tau Delta. (2014-15)

Treasurer, Creative Writing Club (2014-15)

Event Coordinator & Fundraising, Sigma Tau Delta. (2013-14)

Event Coordinator, Acacia (2013-14)

Inter-Club Council, Creative Writing Club (2013-14)