You can download my complete curriculum vitae here. An electronic copy of my CV appears below, including links to relevant web sites and sources. This copy was uploaded in February of 2012.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Duke University, Durham, NC (2007-present)
English
Dissertation Title: Forming Person: Narrative and Psychology in the Victorian Novel; Committee Chairs: Nancy Armstrong and Kathy Alexis Psomiades
M.A. University of Exeter, United Kingdom (2005-2006)
English (distinction and commendation)
Masters Thesis: “Not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper”: The Sister’s Enlightenment and Jane Austen’s Fraternal Model for Marriage; Committee: Ashley Tauchert and Jane Spencer
B.A. University of Southern Mississippi (2001-2004)
English major; French minor; Honors program (summa cum laude)
Managing Editor, The Student Printz
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nineteenth-century novel; Victorian psychology, physiology, anthropology, and evolutionary science; sensation and detective fiction; narrative; Victorian visual culture; kinship studies; affect theory
CONFERENCE PAPERS
- “Dracula and the Form of the Person.” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, (forthcoming) March 29 – April 1, 2012
- “Detection and Sensation: Francis Galton, Wilkie Collins, and the Forms of Personal Identity.” Picturing the Nineteenth Century: INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies) Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, (forthcoming) March 22-25, 2012
- “Bodies Acting Out: Physiology, Narrative, and the Sensation Novel.”
Performance and Play. NAVSA International Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 2011 – Honorable Mention, Best Graduate Paper, NAVSA Prize Committee - “We can hardly put ourselves in the position of these savages: Kinship, Sympathy, and Difference in Darwinian Fictions.”
Scale and Perspective. NAVSA International Conference, Montreal, November 2010. - “Reading Kinship Backwards: Victorian Anthropology, the Family, and Containing/Rejecting the Past.”
Past versus Present. BAVS/NAVSA Joint Conference, Cambridge University, July 2009 - “Weaving the Golden Cord: The Brother-Sister Bond and Gender Divisions in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.”
Fresh Threads of Connection. 17th Annual British Women Writers Conference (BWWC), University of Iowa, April 2009.
TEACHING
- Certificate in College Teaching (CCT) program, Duke University
- Coursework including College Teaching & Course Design (2012) - Instructor (forthcoming): English 184S: Mystery and Detection, Fall 2012 (Readings in Genre/English major gateway class made possible by the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Fellowship for Undergraduate Instruction)
- Instructor: English 26S: Vampires, Monsters, Humans, Fall 2010 (for more information, see teaching)
- Teaching Assistant: Contemporary American Fiction (Victor Strandberg), Spring 2012
- Teaching Assistant: Nineteenth-Century Novel (Nancy Armstrong), Fall 2011.
- Teaching Assistant: Classics of American Literature, 1820-1860 (Victor Strandberg), Spring 2011
- Teaching Assistant: Victorian Poetry (Kathy Alexis Psomiades), Spring 2010
- Tutor, Writing Studio, Duke University Thompson Writing Program
- Teaching Apprentice: Studies in a Single British Author: Jane Austen (Charlotte Sussman), Spring 2009
- Teaching Apprentice: Shakespeare’s Comedies/Romances (Maureen Quilligan), Spring 2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SERVICE
- Organizer, English Department Pedagogy Forum, 2011-2012
- Member, Graduate and Professional Student Advisory Board, Duke University Library, 2011-2012
- Research Assistant, Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University,
Fall 2011 - Production Assistant, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (2 issues)
Spring 2010 – Present - Research Assistant, Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
August 2008 – April 2010 - Co-Curator, I Take Up My Pen: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Exhibit at Duke University Perkins Library. December 2009 – February 2010 (see website)
HONORS AND Fellowships
- Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Fellowship for Undergraduate Instruction, Duke University (2012-2013)
- Honorable Mention, Best Graduate Paper, NAVSA Prize Committee (2011)
- Fellow, Preparing Future Faculty Program (2011-2012)
- Graduate Student Fellowship, Duke University (2007-2012)
- Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University Graduate School (2011)
- Dissertation Research Travel Award, Duke University Graduate School (2011)
- North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Travel Grant (2009 and 2011)
- Conference Travel Awards, Duke University Graduate School (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
- Commendation for highest MA distinction, University of Exeter (2006)
WORKING GROUPS
- The History of Science and Literary Form Working Group, Duke University, Fall 2010 – Present
- Women’s Studies Graduate Scholars Colloquium, Duke University, Spring 2011 – Present
- Writing is Thinking Workshop Participant, PAL Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature, Duke University, Spring 2011