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Assistant Professor of English at Temple College
Aug 2020 - Present · Temple, TX
- American Literature I
- British Literature II
- Composition II
- Composition I
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Education |
Ph.D. English The University of Texas at Austin, July 2019
Fields: 20th Century British Literature, Environmental Humanities, Archival Studies
M.A. English The University of Texas at Austin, May 2014
Field: 20th Century Irish Literature & Drama
B.A. University Scholars Baylor University, May 2010
Interdisciplinary Honors Degree, concentrations in Literature, Great Texts, Creative Writing and Philosophy
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Teaching Experience |
Assistant Professor of Instruction at UT Austin
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 · Austin, TX
- Virginia Woolf, “Archiving the Self” (Spring 2020)
- Reading Poetry, “Poetry in/as Practice” (Spring 2020)
- Literature and Film, “Coming of Age on Page and Screen” (Fall 2019)
- Reading Poetry, “Forms, Contexts, Controversies” (Fall 2019)
- Banned Books and Novel Ideas, “Censorship on Stage” (Fall 2019)
Instructor of Record at UT Austin
Aug 2014 - Aug 2019
- Honors Texts and Contexts: “Wartime Writing in the Archives” (Spring 2019)
- “Unhappy Families on Stage, Page, and Screen” (Fall 2018)
- (Co-taught) Modernism and Literature Seminar, with Dr. Mia Carter (Spring 2017)
- Research and Writing: Rhetoric of the Wild (Summer 2015)
- Introduction to Research and Writing (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
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Professional Experience |
NEH Scholarly Research Associate at the Harry Ransom Center
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · Austin, TX
NEH-funded public humanities grant. Developed, curated, and delivered digital teaching collections and curriculum from PEN International Records Collection for NEH digitization, preservation, and access grant.
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- Curated, designed, and delivered digital teaching collections centered around intellectual freedom, censorship, global refugees, and human rights.
- Generated metadata and design web platforms for teaching collections employing Dublin Core, controlled vocabularies, ContentDM, Project REVEAL, Mirador, etc.
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https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/teaching/pen/.
Graduate Associate (Outreach, Reference, & Instruction) at the Harry Ransom Center
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017 · Austin, TX
Competitive 2-year GRA position in reference, instruction, and public services. Taught courses in archival research, provided reference and research assistance for on- and off-site patrons, delivered presentations to students, faculty, and other stakeholders. Completed independent projects in instruction, curriculum, and digital collections.
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- Planned and facilitated sessions in the HRC with UT faculty, VIP guests and authors, and HRC members.
- Designed and launched Teaching Collections pilot program with Dr. Andrea Gustavson and Dr. Ariel Evans.
- Developed Teaching Collections and Guides in Environmental Humanities.
- Collaborated with UT faculty to facilitate, plan, and deliver lectures, instruction, and assignments using special collections at the HRC. Course collaborations included:
- Literature and Film (March 2016; March 2017; April 2017)
- Banned Books and Novel Ideas (April 2016; April 2017)
- Ernest Hemingway (March 2017)
- T.S. Eliot (April 2017)
- Decadence and Modernity (April 2017)
- English Graduate Disciplinary Outcomes (October 2017)
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Professional Publications |
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “‘A Traveler in Little Things’: Nature, Nostalgia, and Nativism in W. H. Hudson’s English Country Books.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 62 no. 2, 2020.
- Co-authored with J. Schneider, C. Adams, S. DeBauche, C. McKean, J. Moran & D. Waugh. “Appraising, processing, and providing access to email in contemporary literary archives,” Archives and Manuscripts, 47:3, 305-326, Fall 2019.
- “‘Still another Judith’: Protest and Performance in Brian Friel’s Film Adaptation of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.” Comparative Drama 51:3, Fall 2017.
Other Selected Publications
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Professional Presentations |
Conference Presentations
- ‘Gone to Ground’: Ruralism and Resilience in T. H. White’s Wartime Writing.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Toronto, CA [online] (Jan 2021).
- Chair and Convenor, Special Session Panel: “Environmental Genres: Forms, Histories, Functions.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (January 2019).
- “In Search of England: Interwar Petroculture’s Invented Traditions.” Petrocultures Conference: Glasgow, UK (August 2018).
- “‘To begin with, a city’: London and bodies politic in the wartime films of Dylan Thomas.” Literary London Society Conference: London, UK (July 2018).
- “Notes Against the ‘Urbanization of Mind’: T. S. Eliot, The Criterion, and Interwar Ruralism.” British Association for Modernist Studies: Birmingham, UK (July 2017)
- “Staging London: Metropolitan Visions in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Literary London Society conference: London, UK (July 2016)
- “Pageant Ecologies: Virginia Woolf, Natural History, and English Heritage.” Virginia Woolf Society conference: Leeds, UK (June 2016)
- “’Still Another Judith’: Performing Resistance in Brian Friel’s Film Adaptation of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.” International Associations for the Study of Irish Literature Conference: York, UK (June 2015)
- “Addressing Absence: R. S. Thomas and the Poetics of Prayer.” South Central MLA Conference: Austin, TX (October 2014).
- “We Had Made Ourselves Anew’: Narrative and Flux in V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival.” British Associations for Modernist Studies Conference: London, UK (July 2014).
- “From Omphalos to Labyrinth: Renegotiating Place and Identity in Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know.” American Centers for Irish Studies/Canadian Irish Studies Conference: Dublin, Ireland (June 2014)
- “Brian Friel: Epistemologies of the Local.” European Federation of Associations and Centers for Irish Studies Conference: Galway, Ireland (June 2013)
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Awards |
Research & Travel Grants
- University of Exeter International Research Grant (Aug 2018)
- Huntington Library Research Fellow (May 2018)
- Harry Ransom Center Dissertation Research Fellow (Nov 2017)
- Maureen Decherd Dissertation Excellence Fellow (2017-2019)
- Departmental Excellence Fellowship, UT English Department (2018)
- UT Austin Graduate School Travel/Professsional Development Grants (2013-2018)
Writing Prizes & Awards
- Outstanding Dissertation Prize, UT English Dept. (Jan 2020)
- Literary London Society President’s Award (June 2019)
- Outstanding M.A. Thesis Prize, UT English Department (May 2014)
- Academy of American Poets Prize, Baylor University (2008, 2009)
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