EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Current)

M.Phil. in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2021)

Advanced Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2019)

M.A. in English, University of Virginia (2010)

B.A. in English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Honors Program Graduate (2006)

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS and ACADEMIC POSITIONS 

2021 – current. Graduate Fellow, CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies 

2019 – 2021. Teaching and Learning Collaboratory Fellow, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY 

2016 – 2019. Instructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY 

2016 – current. Program Administrator, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate, The Graduate Center, CUNY 

2016 – 2017. Writing Consultant, Mellon Writing Mentor Program, Baruch College, CUNY

2015 – 2020. Graduate Student Researcher, New Media Lab, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2015 – 2016. Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, York College, CUNY 

2015 – 2016. Program Assistant, Women’s Studies Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY 

2014 – 2016. Adjunct Instructor, Hunter College, CUNY 

2014 – 2015. Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, Baruch College, CUNY

2011 – 2014. Graduate Teaching Fellow, Hunter College, CUNY 

2008 – 2010. Writing Center Tutor, University of Virginia  

AWARDS and GRANTS

2021. New York City Digital Humanities (NYCDH) Graduate Student Digital Project Award, New York, NY

2021. Digital Research Infrastructure Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2020. Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2019. Joshua Brown Visual Culture Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2019. Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2018. Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2017. Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2016. New Media Lab Digital Dissertation Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2016. Doctoral Student Research Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2012. Fellow, Dickens Universe. Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz

2010-2015. Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2006. B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Virginia Commonwealth University

2002-2006. Deans’ Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Issues 

2015. Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies on “Relations: Literary Marketplaces, Affects, and Bodies of 18th- and 19th-Century Women Writers.” Issue 11.3 (Guest Editor with Meechal Hoffman and Livia Woods) 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2015. “Introduction to Relations: Literary Marketplaces, Affects, and Bodies of 18th- and 19th-Century Women Writers.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 11.3. (With Meechal Hoffman and Livia Woods) 

2013. “Redemptive Nursing and the Remarriageable Heroine in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Diana of the Crossways.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 9.2: 

Web-based Work

2021. Discussant on Abigail Joseph’s Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style. V21 Collations: Book Forum. 

2010. “Pocahontas: The Unknown Heroine Every Child Should Know.” Collective Biographies of Women. Ed. Alison Booth. NINES. 

2010. “Biography as Pastiche: Florence Nightingale’s Life in Episodes.” Collective Biographies of Women. Ed. Alison Booth. NINES. 

2010. “Multiple Perspectives on the Life of the ‘Swedish Nightingale’.” Collective Biographies of Women. Ed. Alison Booth. NINES. 

2010. “Missionary Modeling: The First of the Mrs. Judsons.” Collective Biographies of Women. Ed. Alison Booth. NINES. 

2010. “The Cleaned-Up Version of a Great Philanthropist: Elizabeth Fry.” Collective Biographies of Women. Ed. Alison Booth. NINES

Transcriptions

2012. “Dickens on Broadway: Future Dickens, Digital Dickens, Global Dickens – A Panel Discussion.” Ed. Edward Guiliano. Dickens Studies Annual 43: 1-29. 

DIGITAL PROJECTS

2021. Visual Vixens, an interactive pedagogical project under development in WordPress. 

2020. Visualizing the Victorian Sportswoman, a pedagogical project built in WordPress. 

2016. The Victorian Sportswoman Visual Archive, an Omeka image archive. 

PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOPS 

2022. “Data Disruption: Victorian Women’s Photocollage and Feminist Digital Practice.” Unsettling Victorians. North American Victorian Studies Association. Online (forthcoming). 

2021. “Teaching with Hypothesis.” Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program Skills Lab. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Online. 

2021. “WordPress-friendly Visualization Tools for Teaching and Research.” Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program Skills Lab. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Online. 

2020. “Doing Collaborative Text Annotation Online with Hypothesis.” Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program Skills Lab. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Online. 

2019. “Bad Data.” Victorian Data. North American Victorian Studies Association Data Caucus. Charlottesville, VA. 

2019. “Visualizing the Victorian Sportswoman: Digital Humanities Research Methods in Practice.” Media. Genre. The Generic. North American Victorian Studies Association. Columbus, OH. 

2019. “WordPress-friendly Visualization Tools for Teaching and Research.” Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program Skills Lab. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. 

2017. “Fetishizing Female Muscularity: The Late Victorian Sportswoman.” Odd Bodies. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies. Philadelphia, PA. 

2016. “The New Woman as Sportswoman in Sarah Grand and Mary Beaumont.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford, CT. 

2015. “Digital Dissertation Project: Visualizing the Victorian Sportswoman with Omeka.” Media Res #1: lightning talks by NYC graduate students on DH projects. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. 

2015. “The Somatic Sportswoman: Power and the Athletic Female Body in Mary E. Braddon’s Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s Secret.” Body Politic/s. Western Conference on British Studies. Austin, TX. 

2014. “Reflecting Marriageability: Women’s Bodies in Margaret Oliphant.” Reflections. British Women Writers Conference. Binghamton, NY. 

2013. “Marriageable Bodies: Corporeal Femininity and the Victorian Marriage Plot.” Minding the Body. The Graduate Center, CUNY, English Student Association. New York, NY. 

2012. “Mrs. Beeton, Dickens, and Networks of Exchanged Attentiveness.” Victorian Networks. North American Victorian Studies Association. Madison, WI. 

2011. “Consuming Forms: Narrative Decadence in A Rebours.” Decadent Poetics. Centre for Victorian Studies. University of Exeter, UK. 

2011. “The Social Bonds of Dickens’ Shared Meals.” Food! The Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association. New York, NY. 

2010. “Sweet Pleasure & Bitter Empowerment: Tasting Emotional Fulfillment in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë.” Making Sense. University of Virginia, English Student Association. Charlottesville, VA. 

2009. “Gendered Reflections: Stephen Gordon’s Liminal Identity in The Well of Loneliness.” Liminal Literature. University of Wisconsin-Madison, English Student Association. Madison, WI. 

COURSES TAUGHT 

2012 – 2015. Introduction to Writing about Literature, Writing intensive course, Hunter College (Full instructor, 7 sections) 

2011 – 2012. Introduction to Literature, Writing intensive course, Hunter College (Full instructor, 6 sections) 

TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS 

HTML, CSS, WordPress, Omeka, Manifold, Hypothesis, Photoshop, Audacity, Zotero, Trello

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Victorian literature and visual culture, Women’s and Gender Studies, Digital Humanities 

SERVICE 

2016 – 2018. Co-chair, Long-19th Century Student Group, The Graduate Center, CUNY 

2015. Steering Committee, British Women Writers Conference, New York, NY.

2012 – 2013. English Department Mentor, The Graduate Center, CUNY 

2011 – 2013. Fundraising Committee, English Department, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2010 – 2011. Editorial Assistant, Dickens Studies Annual 

2010 – 2020. Volunteer Organizer, Annual Victorian Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY