Curriculum Vitae
RESEARCH INTERESTS
ecocriticism and environmental studies; Appalachian literature; health humanities; 20th-century literature; 21st-century literature; labor studies; African American literature; racial capitalism; transnational literature; gender studies; women's writing; literary modernism
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, University of Mississippi, In Progress— Graduating January 2026.
Dissertation Title: “Mining the Body: Racial Capitalism and the Embodied Sacrifice Zone”
Committee: Leigh Anne Duck (Chair), Jay Watson, Jaime Harker, Marcos Mendoza
M.A., English; Gender Studies Graduate Minor, University of Mississippi, Summer 2019.
Thesis Title: “Subverting the Patriarchal Panopticon: Challenges to Eugenics Rhetoric
in the Novels of McCullers and Welty”
Committee: Jay Watson (Chair), Kathryn McKee, Jaime Harker
B.A., English; Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Spring 2010
Honors Thesis Title: “Call Signs” (Creative Thesis)
Supervisor: Gurney Norman
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly
“‘Mine More Coal’: Embodied and Environmental ‘Sacrifice Zones’ in Upton Sinclair’s King Coal and Jack Conroy’s The Disinherited.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945, special “Collaborative Forum on War and Environment” issue, in progress.
“The Underground City and Hidden Bodies: Coal Mining and the Black Experience.” Mississippi Quarterly, special “Emerging Scholars, Emerging Scholarship” issue, accepted—publication forthcoming.
“From ‘Dust’ to ‘Dirt’: Bodily Environmental Engagement in Henry Green’s Living.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae090.
Hybrid: Scholarly and Poetry
“Carbon Glow.” How to Do Things in Turbulent Times, special issue of About Place Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2020.
Fiction
“Somewhere Worth Going.” FOLK 3, no. 2 (2013): 46-47.
“The Comforts of Home.” FOLK 3, no. 1 (2013): 44-45.
“Through the Keys of Time.” FOLK 2, no. 4 (2012): 129.
“A Summer Place.” FOLK 2, no. 3 (2012): 97
“The Old Cabin.” FOLK 2, no. 2 (2012): 19.
“Short Story.” FOLK 2, no. 1 (2012): 19.
“Short Story.” FOLK 1, no. 2 (2011): 16.
“Short Story.” FOLK 1, no. 1 (2011): 68-69.
Creative Non-Fiction and Interviews
“Falling in Love with Post Road Vintage.” FOLK 2, no. 5 (2012): 86-91.
“Call Signs.” FOLK 2, no. 5 (2012): 60-61.
“Very Vintage: One Girl’s Hunt for the Perfect Vintage Lifestyle.” FOLK 2, no. 4 (2012): 76-79.
“Southern Ingenuity.” FOLK 2, no. 3 (2012): 34-39.
“A Flavorful Life.” FOLK 2, no. 2 (2012): 78-85.
PRESENTATIONS
“‘Wom[en] to Reckon With’: Intersectionality and Feminist Resistance in Myra Page’s 1930s Journalism
and Daughter of the Hills.” The Space Between Society Conference—“Peace and Conflict in the
Space Between,” 28-30 May 2025, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
“Energy Innovation and Mining the Body in Upton Sinclair’s King Coal and Jack Conroy’s The
Disinherited.” The Space Between Society Conference—“Innovation and Re-Invention in
the Space Between,” 13-16 June 2024, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
“‘It Was Brought North’: Modern Mobility in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy.”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference: Nineteenth-Century Movement(s), 13-
16 Apr. 2023, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN.
“From ‘Dust’ to ‘Dirt’: Bodily Environmental Engagement in Henry Green’s Living.” The Space
Between Society Conference— “Labor in the Space Between, 1914-1945,” 2-4 June 2022, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
“Carbon Glow.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment: Humanities on the Brink:
Energy, Environment, Emergency, 10 July 2020, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
(held virtually).
“‘It Was Brought North’: Modern Mobility in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy.”
Society for the Study of Southern Literature: “Beyond Borders, Bars, and Binaries: Rethinking
‘South’ in an Age of Crisis,” 2-5 Apr. 2020, The Graduate, Fayetteville, AR (cancelled due to
COVID-19).
“‘To be a good animal and to serve my country’: Feeblemindedness and Horse Breeding in Carson
McCullers’ Reflections in a Golden Eye.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2 Nov.
2018, Sheraton, Birmingham, AL.
“Feeble Minds, Feeble Bodies: Subversion of Eugenic Stereotypes in Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a
Golden Eye.” Southern Writers Southern Writing, 21 July 2018, University of Mississippi,
Oxford, MS.
“‘Funny in Her Head’: ‘Fitter Families’ and the Specter of the Asylum in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding.” Isom Student Gender Conference, 6 April 2018, University of Mississippi, Oxford,
MS.
“‘A Family of Imbeciles?: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying in the Age of Eugenics.” Southern Writers Southern
Writing, 21 July 2017, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
“The Malleable Memory: ‘Monk’ and Southern Civil War Remembrance.” Space Between Society
Conference–“Memory and Prophecy in the Space Between, 1914-45,” 27 May 2017, University
of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Mississippi, Fall 2025
Provides funding for doctoral students who are in the final stages of the dissertation process
Bae Magruder Consultant of the Year Award, University of Mississippi, 2025
Recognizes a writing consultant who demonstrates excellence in tutoring, exemplary peer support, and an outstanding tutoring philosophy
Louise E. Dollarhide Award Finalist, University of Mississippi, 2025
Recognizes a literary studies graduate student who is a promising scholar and dedicated departmental ambassador
Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, University of Mississippi, Summer 2024
Funding enabling promising graduate students to remain on campus during the summer for a minimum of 10 weeks of research
Colby Kullman Fellowship, University of Mississippi, 2019 – 2024
Provides additional funding for a term of 5 years to particularly strong Ph.D. applicants
English Department Summer Research Fellowship, University of Mississippi, Summer 2018
Stipend to conduct research for thesis during the summer months
Honors Program (now Lewis Honors College), University of Kentucky, 2006 – 2010
An enhanced course of instruction for highly motivated students, including program-specific courses and a final Capstone Project
Presidential Scholarship, University of Kentucky, 2006 – 2010
Provides full tuition for 4 years
Kentucky Governor’s Scholar, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Centre College, 2005
A summer liberal arts and sciences program and residential life experience for outstanding high school students in Kentucky who are rising seniors
TEACHING
Courses
Instructor of Record, University of Mississippi
ENG 226, Survey of British Literature since Romantic Period, taught Summer 2017 and 2023
ENG 224, Survey of American Literature since Civil War (Theme: “Nature, Illness, and the
Body”), taught Summer 2020 (online)
WRIT 102, First-Year Writing II, taught Spring 2018
WRIT 101, First-Year Writing I, taught Fall 2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Mississippi
ENG 224, Survey of American Literature since Civil War, taught Fall 2019 and Fall 2023
ENG 226, Survey of British Literature since Romantic Period, taught Spring 2017 and Fall 2022
ENG 220, Survey in Literary History (Theme: “Literature and Economics: Use Value, Exchange
Value, Artistic Value”), taught Spring 2021 (online)
ENG 225, Survey of British Literature to 18th Century, taught Fall 2016 and Fall 2020 (online)
ENG 222, Survey of World Literature since 1650, taught Spring 2020 (hybrid)
Consulting
Graduate Writing Center Consultant, Graduate Writing Center, University of Mississippi
Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Invited Presentations and Lectures
“T.S. Eliot and Transatlantic Modernism”
Presented to Melissa Ginsburg’s ENG 224: Survey of American Literature since Civil War course
at the University of Mississippi, Fall 2023
“Gender and Eugenics”
Presented to Amber Hodge’s G St 201: Introduction to Gender Studies course at the University of
Mississippi, Fall 2020
“William Butler Yeats and Literary Modernism”
Presented to Dr. Kate Lechler’s ENG 226: Survey of British Literature since Romantic Period
course at the University of Mississippi, Spring 2017
“‘A Tale of Two Cities’ – Charles Dickens and the Social Problem Novel”
Presented to Dr. Kate Lechler’s ENG 226: Survey of British Literature since Romantic Period
course at the University of Mississippi, Spring 2017
“‘A Modest Proposal’ – Jonathan Swift”
Presented to Dr. Kate Lechler’s ENG 225: Survey of British Literature to 18th Century course at
the University of Mississippi, Fall 2016
JOURNAL WORK
Editorial Assistant, The Global South, 2021 - 2022
Reader – Fiction, Yalobusha Review, 2016 - 2019
Features Editor, FOLK Magazine, 2011 - 2013
Book Review Columnist, Kentucky Kernel, 2006 - 2007
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Departmental
Co-President (Literature), English Graduate Student Board, 2020 - 2021
Graduate Student Representative, English Department Chair Search Committee, 2020
Scholarly Activities Chair, English Graduate Student Board, 2018 - 2020
Panel Chair, Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference, 2018
Planning Committee Member, Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference, 2018
University
Secretary, OUTGRADS: LGBTQIA+ Organization for Graduate and Professional Students, University
of Mississippi, 2019 – 2022
Freshman Representative Council, Student Government Association, University of Kentucky,
2006 - 2007
State
Graduate Student Representative, Mississippi Writing Center Association Board, 2018 - 2019
Panel Chair, Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference, 2018
Planning Committee Member, Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference, 2018
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Head Docent, Oxford Associated Historic Properties, Oxford, MS, 2022 - 2023
Docent, Oxford Associated Historic Properties, Oxford, MS, 2018 - 2019, 2024 - 2025
Bookseller, Square Books, Oxford, MS, 2021 - 2023
Assistant to the Dean of the School of Theology and Formation, Asbury Theological Seminary,
2013 - 2016
Staff Member, Christian Student Fellowship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2010 - 2011
Intern, Christian Student Fellowship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2009 - 2010
Intern, Office of the State Supreme Court, Frankfort, KY, 2006
ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
The Space Between Society
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
LANGUAGES
English (native)
French (conversational, intermediate reading ability, basic writing ability)
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Amateur Radio Technician License (Call Sign: WB4EOZ), ARRL: The National Association for Amateur Radio, 2020 – present
Amateur Radio Technician License (Call Sign: KG4JNS), ARRL: The National Association for Amateur Radio, 2000 – 2020