CV

Academic Employment

Washington & Lee University

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, UCI (2022)

MA, Comparative Literature, UCI (2016)

Post-Baccalaureate, Classics, UCLA (2013)

BA, Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College (2011)

My first book project, “The Poetry of Origins: Race, Empire, and the Making of English Ode,” reevaluates the ode and its influence on the study of lyric poetry. Whereas literary critics from the eighteenth century onward have viewed the ode as a constitutive genre of Western literature, I show that its development is essentially modern. Examining the Atlantic context of the ode’s rise, I trace how this genre became a medium for allegories of colonial authority that relied upon a sense of literary futurity that was circumscribed by emergent notions of gender and race.

Research Interests

• British and transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century; formations of race and gender in the early Atlantic world; comparative poetics; the history of literary theory & criticism.

Peer-reviewed Articles

• “‘Fancy’s Wilde Work’: Race, Gender, and the ‘Soaring Fortunes of the Lyric’” [under consideration].

• “Consider the Source: Robert Wedderburn’s Radical Gospel” [commissioned].

• “Salvaging Enlightenment?” [commissioned; submitted].

• “‘Oblivions Sable Shore’: Phillis Wheatley Peters at the Limits of Lyric History,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 64, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 2023): 303-326.

• “‘How the World Really Ends’: Adorno on Working through Catastrophes to Come,” Cultural Critique 109 (Fall, 2020): 112-138.

Book Chapters

• “The Middle Passage,” Phillis Wheatley Peters in Context [commissioned; in progress].

Book Reviews and other Writing

• Review, The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation by Lenora Hanson, Studies in Romanticism (Winter, 2023): 541–552.

• “Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational,” The Georgia Review 75, no. 4 (Winter, 2021), 1061-77.

• “On Jay Wright’s The Prime Anniversary,” The Georgia Review 74, no. 2 (Summer, 2020), 55-9.

Fellowships and Awards (selected)

• Lenfest Grant for Summer Research, WLU, 2023;24.

• Mellon-Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Columbia University, 2021-22.

• Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Humanities Scholarship, UCI, Summer, 2020.

• Dorothy and Donald Strauss Dissertation & Thesis Fellowship, UCI, Winter and Spring quarters, 2020.

• Predoctoral Fellowship, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William A. Clark Memorial Library, October, 2019. 

• Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library, August and September, 2019. 

• Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, 2013-2014.

Presentations and panels

• “Lyric Comparison,” “Genre and Normitivity,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, 2024.

• “Temporal Revolutions in British Abolitionism,” “Revisiting Capitalism and Slavery in the Early Atlantic World,” Race and Empire Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, 2024.

• “Fragments of Colonial Time in Equiano, Cowper, and Wedderburn,” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, College of William & Mary, 2023.

• “Genres of the Atlantic,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, 2023 [organizer].

• “Lyric Environments at the Dawn of Liberalism,”Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2022 [invited].  

• “New Formalisms and the Form of the New,” book launch, Catherine Malabou, Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Tyler Williams (ed.), 2022 [invited]. 

• “Fancy’s Flowing Sea: Classicism, Primitivism, and the Atlantic Ode,” “Historical Poetics Now” for the panel “Common Forms of Empire,” UT Austin, 2019. 

• “Hölderlin: Poetics Under Pressure,” American Comparative Literature Association, for the panel “Prosthetic Immortalities: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Logic of Survival,” UCLA, 2018.

• “How the World Really Ends: Adorno on the Anthropocene,” “New Materialisms and Economies of Excess,” Emory, 2016.

• “The Powers of Ekstasis,” “Early Cultures Conference: Feeling History,” UCI, 2016.

Teaching Experience and Syllabi

• Professor, “Genres of the Atlantic,” WLU, 2024.

• Professor, “Currents of Romantic Revolutions,” WLU, 2024.

• Professor, “Atlantic Worlds, Atlantic Violence,” WLU, 2023.

• Professor, “Metaphysical Poetics,” WLU, 2023.

• Professor, “Civil War,” WLU, 2022-3.

• Writing Consultant, Graduate & Postdoctoral Scholar Resource Center, UCI, 2020-2021. 

• Teaching Associate, Comparative Literature, CL10, "The End: Fear, Fiction, and the Future," Summer Session, UCI 2020.

• Instructor, Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English, UCI 2016-2019.

• Co-author of the syllabus for the “Space, Projection, Expression, Immanence” and “Time and the Negative” reading seminars with Carlos Colmenares Gil and Catherine Malabou, Spring 2018 and ‘19.  

• Co-author of  the syllabus for the Inter-UC EcoMaterialisms Collective reading group, "Scales of Matter(ing)," 2015-2016.

• Tutor, Latin, Department of Classics, UCI, 2015-2016.

• TA, Roman History and Greek Mythology, Department of Classics, UCI, 2014-16.

Languages

• Latin (advanced), Ancient Greek (intermediate), German (intermediate), Spanish (beginning), French (reading).