Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
In progress Ph.D. in English, University of Florida
Director: Kenneth Kidd
Spring 2016 M.A. in English, University of Florida
Thesis: “Transatlantic Haunted Houses: The Heterotopia of the Ship in Gothic Literature”
Chair: Stephanie A. Smith
Winter 2012 B.A. in English, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
In progress Ph.D. in English, University of Florida
Director: Kenneth Kidd
Spring 2016 M.A. in English, University of Florida
Thesis: “Transatlantic Haunted Houses: The Heterotopia of the Ship in Gothic Literature”
Chair: Stephanie A. Smith
Winter 2012 B.A. in English, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture, Horror, The Gothic, Queer Studies, Fandom Studies and New Media, Cultural & Media Studies, Film & Television Studies, Adaptation
Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture, Horror, The Gothic, Queer Studies, Fandom Studies and New Media, Cultural & Media Studies, Film & Television Studies, Adaptation
PUBLICATIONS Refereed Articles |
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2018 |
Co-authored with Megan Fowler. “’Smile, Derek. Why Don’t You Smile More?’: The Feminization of Teen Wolf's Derek Hale.” Queer-baiting. Spec. issue of Journal of Fandom Studies. |
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2018 |
“‘This is My Becoming’: Transformation, Hybridity, and Embracing the Monstrous in NBC’s Hannibal.” Monster Studies. Spec. issue of UTQ 87.1 (Winter 2018). |
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2016 |
"Becoming the Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom." Werewolves: Studies in Transformation. Spec. issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural (2016): 91-110. |
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HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2021 |
Kirkland Dissertation Fellowship, University of Florida |
2018 |
English Department Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Florida |
2016-2020 |
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2015 |
University Writing Program Award for Excellence in Teaching First Year Composition, University of Florida |
2015 2014-2017 |
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Support Grinter Fellowship, University of Florida |
2013 |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2019 2019 2018 2018 |
“A Quiet Year at Hogwarts: Voicing the Unvoiced in Jillian Tamaki’s SuperMutant Magic Academy.” IRSCL Congress 2019: Silence and Silencing. Stockholm, Sweden. 14 – 18 August. Co-presented with Megan Fowler. “’Are You Seriously Saying That There's Nothing Special About Our Relationship?’: The Re-Camping of Batman and The Joker in Animation.” 16th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: ImageTexT in Motion. Gainesville, FL. 12-14 April. “Event Horizons: Unreality and Phantasmagoria in 19th Century Nautical Gothic and 20th Century Science Fiction.” NAVSA: Looking Outward. St. Petersburg, FL. 11-14 October. “’It’s Beautiful:’ Wildean Gothic Aesthetics and The Poison of Influence in NBC’s Hannibal.” 13th Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association: Gothic Hybridities. Manchester, UK. 31 July – 03 August. |
2018 |
“’We All Float Down Here:’ The Fluid Bodies and Watery Heterotopias of Stephen King’s IT.” Children’s Literature Association 45th Annual Conference: Refreshing Waters/Turbulent Waters. San Antonio, TX. 28-30 June. |
2018 |
“’My One Cogged Circle Fits Into All Their Various Wheels:’ Biomechanical Imagetext in Matt Kish’s Moby-Dick in Pictures.” 15th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: ImageTech: Comics and Materiality. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 6-8 April. |
2017 |
“’It’s Beautiful’:” Wildean Aesthetics and The Poison of Influence in NBC’s Hannibal.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 89th Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. 3 – 5 November. |
2017 |
Co-presented with Megan Fowler. “’Smile, Derek. Why Don’t You Smile More?’: The Feminization of Teen Wolf's Derek Hale.” 17th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference: Transformation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 21-23 October. |
2017 |
“Furry Little Problem: J.K. Rowling, Remus Lupin, and the Problem with Pottermore.” Children’s Literature Association 44th Annual Conference: Imagined Futures. Tampa, FL. 22-24 June. |
2017 |
“’This is My Becoming’: Transformation, Hybridity, and Embracing the Monstrous in NBC’s Hannibal.” 38th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Fantastic Epics. Orlando, FL. Forthcoming: 22-26 March. |
2016 |
Co-presented with Megan Fowler. “’Smile, Derek. Why Don’t You Smile More?’: The Feminization of Teen Wolf's Derek Hale.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 88th Annual Conference. Jacksonville, FL. 4 – 6 November. |
2016 |
“Becoming the Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 88th Annual Conference. Jacksonville, FL. 4 – 6 November. |
2016 |
“Welcome to ‘White’ Vale: (Non-)Visual Rhetoric and The Erasure of Racial Minorities in Welcome to Night Vale Fan Art.” Children’s Literature Association 43nd Annual Conference: Animation. Columbus, OH. 9-11 June, 2016. |
2016 |
“Scary Stories for Children: A Course Rationale.” 37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Wonder Tales. Orlando, FL 16 - 20 March. |
2015 |
“Strange at Last: Queerness, Otherness, and Normalcy in Welcome to Night Vale.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 87th Annual Conference. Durham, NC. 13 – 15 November. |
2015 |
“Transatlantic Haunted Houses: The Heterotopia of the Ship in Gothic Literature and New Traditions.” South Central Modern Language Association 72nd Annual Conference. Nashville, TN. 31 October – 01 November. |
2015 |
"The Leviathan and the Cyborg: The Influence of Moby-Dick on Sci-Fi Horror Film." 15th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference: How to Talk About Horror, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 22-24 October. |
2015 |
“Transatlantic Haunted Houses: The Heterotopia of the Ship in Gothic Literature and New Traditions.” 12th Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association: Gothic Migrations. Vancouver, BC. 28 July – 01 August. |
2015 |
“Chocolate and Honey: Teachers and Children as Second-Class Citizens in Harry Potter and Matilda.” Children’s Literature Association 42nd Annual Conference: “Give me liberty, or give me death!”: The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature. Richmond, VA. 18-20 June. |
2015 |
“Welcome to ‘White’ Vale: (Non-)Visual Rhetoric and The Erasure of Racial Minorities in Welcome to Night Vale Fan Art.” 12th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: Comics Read but Seldom Seen. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 12 April. |
2015 |
“The Gendered Classroom.” Roundtable, co-presented with Christopher Gage and Trevor Crown. 2nd Annual Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 31 January. |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Florida, 2014 – Present
English Department:
Literature for the Adolescent (Fall 2020; 4000-level seminar)
Advanced Argumentative Writing (Summer 2020; 3000-level seminar)
Issues in American Literature and Culture: "Southern Gothic" (Fall 2018)
Writing Through Media: "The Intertextual Fairy Tale" (Summer 2018, Spring 2019)
Survey of English Literature, 1750 to Present (Spring 2018)
Survey of World Literature: 17th Century to Modern (Fall 2017)
Writing Through Media: "Metamorphosis" (Spring 2017)
Survey of American Literature (Fall 2016)
Topics for Composition: "Horror for Children" (Fall 2015)
University Writing Program:
Rhetoric and Academic Research: “Ways of Being” (Spring 2015)
Professional Communication for Engineers (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
Writing Academic Arguments (Fall 2014)
University Writing Program (Writing Coach):
Rhetoric and Academic Research (Summer 2019)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Florida, 2014 – Present
English Department:
Literature for the Adolescent (Fall 2020; 4000-level seminar)
Advanced Argumentative Writing (Summer 2020; 3000-level seminar)
Issues in American Literature and Culture: "Southern Gothic" (Fall 2018)
Writing Through Media: "The Intertextual Fairy Tale" (Summer 2018, Spring 2019)
Survey of English Literature, 1750 to Present (Spring 2018)
Survey of World Literature: 17th Century to Modern (Fall 2017)
Writing Through Media: "Metamorphosis" (Spring 2017)
Survey of American Literature (Fall 2016)
Topics for Composition: "Horror for Children" (Fall 2015)
University Writing Program:
Rhetoric and Academic Research: “Ways of Being” (Spring 2015)
Professional Communication for Engineers (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
Writing Academic Arguments (Fall 2014)
University Writing Program (Writing Coach):
Rhetoric and Academic Research (Summer 2019)
ACADEMIC SERVICE |
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Editorial |
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2020 2015-2016 |
Guest co-editor of special issue of ImageTexT (11.3): “ImageTech” Associate Managing Editor, ImageTexT |
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Editorial Collective, ImageTexT |
University Service |
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2018 – Present 2017 – Present 2016 – 2017 2016 – 2017 2015 - 2015 - 2015 2015 - 2016 2014 - 2014 - |
Treasurer, Graduate Comics Organization, University of Florida Secretary, Graduate Comics Organization, University of Florida Co-organizer, Welcome Week for Prospective English Graduate Students, University of Florida President, English Graduate Organization, University of Florida Moderator, Comix-Scholars Discussion List, University of Florida Member, Science Fiction Working Group, University of Florida Judging Committee (Undergraduate Division), University Writers’ Awards, University of Florida Secretary, English Graduate Organization, University of Florida Member, English Graduate Organization, University of Florida Member, Graduate Comics Organization, University of Florida |
Conference Organization |
2019 | Officer and Co-organizer, 16th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: ImageTexT in Motion - Animation and Comics. University of Florida, 12-14 April. 2018 | Proposal Selection Committee, North American Victorian Studies Association: Looking Outward, Saint Petersburg, FL. 2018 | Co-organizer and moderator, 15th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: ImageTech, University of Florida, 6-8 April. 2017 | Moderator, 17th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference: Transformation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 21-23 October. 2017 | Co-organizer, 14th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: Comics Remixed, University of Florida, 7-10 April. 2016 | Co-organizer, 16th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference: Futures Near and Far: Utopia, Dystopia, and Futurity, University of Florida, 22-24 October. 2016 | Co-organizer, 13th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: Transnational Comics, University of Florida, 8-10 April. 2016 | Moderator, 2nd Annual Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy, University of Florida, 30 January. 2015 | Co-organizer and moderator, 15th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference: How to Talk About Horror, University of Florida, 22-24 October. 2015 | Co-organizer and moderator, 12th Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: Comics Read but Seldom Seen, University of Florida, 10-12 April. 2015 | Moderator, 14th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference: How to Feel About Affect, University of Florida, 23-25 October. |
AFFILIATIONS |
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REFERENCES
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