EDUCATION
Ph.D. Media, Art, and Text, Virginia Commonwealth University (2016)
M.A. Comparative Literature, Binghamton University (2008)
B.A. English, Art Minor, Augusta University (2006)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Senior Lecturer, University of New Haven Department of English (2023 - Present)
Lecturer, University of New Haven Department of English (2017 - 2023)
Writing Center Director, University of New Haven (2020 - Present)
PUBLICATIONS
“Teaching with Images in the First-Year Writing Classroom,” AHTR Weekly, 7 Dec. 2019.
AWARDS
William L. Bucknall Excellence in Teaching Award, University of New Haven (2023)
Excellence in Teaching by Lecturer Faculty, University of New Haven (2021)
Johnson Family Award for Excellence in the Teaching of First-Year Writing, University of New Haven (2019)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Open Pedagogy Fellow, University of New Haven (2022-2023)
Writing Center Faculty Fellow, University of New Haven (Spring 2020)
Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media, Gale and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2014)
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Time-Saving Hacks for Efficient Grading.” University of New Haven panelist for the Center for Teaching Excellence. Oct. 20, 2020.
“Reflections on Teaching in and about Prisons.” Yale Center for British Art. Panelist for the Study Day, “Captive Bodies: Visualizing Liberty and Justice after 1750 in Great Britain,” Sept. 21, 2018.
CONFERENCES
Panels Organized
“Teaching with Images in Composition Courses.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Tradition and Innovation: Changing Worlds Through the Humanities, Mar. 14, 2021.
Papers Presented
“Encounters with Representations of “the Criminal” Body in Gallery Field Trips.” Northeast Modern Language Association. (R)evolution. Mar. 6-9.
“The End of Victorian Literature.” Co-written with Mary Isbell. North American Victorian Studies Association. Boston College Hub. Sept. 13-15, 2024.
“The Value of Reflection Writing for Assessing Student Growth.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Surplus. Mar. 7-10, 2024.
“The Spectacle of Reform: Prison Punishments in the Victorian Illustrated Press.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Radicalism and Reform. Mar. 18 - 22, 2020 (paper accepted but conference cancelled due to the pandemic).
“Student Perceptions of Peer Review in the First-Year Writing Classroom.” Co-presented with Lily Manzo. Northeast Modern Language Association. Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures. Mar. 8, 2020.
“Calling All Majors: The Digital Humanities Lab at the University of New Haven.” Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference. Co-presenter with Jenna Sheffield, Cara Petitti, Mary Isbell, Lauren Beck, Simon Hutchinson, and Matt Wranovix. Feb. 29, 2020.
“Artist as Voice for the Incarcerated: Aesthetics and the Prison in One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana.” Pop Culture Association. Visual Culture and Place. Apr. 18, 2019.
“‘The Criminal’ in the Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” College Art Association. Art and Justice: New Pedagogical Approaches. Feb. 14, 2019.
“Prison Spaces in The Illustrated London News, 1842-1895.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Places, Spaces, and the Victorian Periodical Press, Sept. 13, 2014
“Visions of Other Worlds: The Art of Howard Finster.” American Comparative Literature Association. Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms, Apr. 3, 2010.
WORKSHOPS
University of New Haven Center for Teaching Excellence. Facilitator for “How to Plan Field Trips to the Beinecke Library and Yale Center for British Art,” 8 Nov. 2024.
University of New Haven Center for Teaching Excellence. Facilitator for “Creating Curiosity: An Introduction to Object-Based Learning,” 12 Jan. 2022.
Digital Pedagogy Lab. Fredericksburg, VA. Aug. 5 - 9, 2019.
Yale Center for British Art Summer Teacher Institute. “Expanding Literacies, Extending Classrooms,” New Haven, CT. June 24 - 27, 2019.
CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS
“Carceral Images.” University of New Haven Research Talk. Sept. 25, 2018.
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of New Haven
Academic Inquiry & Writing (Fall 2017 - Present)
Peer Tutoring Practicum (Fall 2020 - Present)
Representations of the Body (Spring 2025)
Honors Thesis Presentation (Spring 2018 - Fall 2023)
Representations of “the Criminal” (Fall 2018 and Spring 2023)
Framing Museum Experience (Spring 2020)
Digital Humanities Lab (Co-taught, Fall 2019, Spring 2021)
Photography in the Contemporary Novel (Spring 2018)
Quinnipiac University
Art and Crime (Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Fall 2023)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Focused Inquiry II (TA Spring 2015, Instructor Spring 2016)
Focused Inquiry I (TA Fall 2014, Instructor Fall 2015)
Advanced Writing (Spring 2014)
Identifying the Criminal in the 19th Century (Spring 2013)
Writing and Rhetoric Workshop II (Fall 2010)
Augusta University
World Humanities I and II (Spring 2010)
Binghamton University
Literature and Psychology (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
World Literature II (Spring 2007)
World Literature I (Fall 2006)
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Editor for the Journal of Prison Education Research (2018 - Present)
Manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2016 - Present)
Editorial board for Trespassing Journal (2011 - 2016)