I teach broadly across the humanities here at Maritime, from World Cultures and Civilizations to SUNY mandated DEI-focused courses. My research has been focused on narratives of working life in eighteenth-century Britain and early America, in a variety of print genres. This interest has in large part focused on stories of individual, intra-generational economic mobility through hard work, and thinking about the contemporary cultural role of texts popular understandings of economic opportunity. My research incorporates the use of GIS as a tool for literary analysis. I am currently at work on a book, entitled Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility in British Literature, 1719-1809.
- Ph.D. English The Graduate Center, CUNY
- M.A. English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
- J.D. American University
- B.A. Duke University
Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility in British Literature, 1719-1809 (manuscript in revision)
My teaching focuses on creating conditions for students to experience the challenge and joy of reading and textual analysis as a means of cultivating critical thinking and empathy, which are vital skills for living a more authentic, compassionate, informed, and engaged life, not to mention building a more just world. I use multiple methodologies to target different learning styles and incorporate applied learning strategies that bring the diversity of student experience into the classroom.
- 2021 Special Discretionary Director's Scholarship
Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - 2019-2020 Open Educational Research (OER) Faculty Fellowship
Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY - 2013-2014 Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) Fellowship
New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY