At Loyola University Chicago, I completed my Ph.D. in English with distinction while teaching full-time in the English Program at the University of Northwestern - St. Paul, where I teach courses on premodern British literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and applied writing.
My research projects explore how and to what end ecopolitics are leveraged in Shakespeare's plays and poem that focus on figures and settings of the ancient Mediterranean world. I regularly conduct research in rare archives and special collections located in the United States and England; this archival research has informed my doctoral research, which I am sharing via two journal articles and a book-length manuscript. One of the journal articles has earned a revise-and-resubmit, and I will be submitting the other journal article and the book-length manuscript for initial consideration this year. Additionally, I have three works-in-progress that investigate, respectively, medieval moralistic treatises, the representation of care in John Milton's A Masque, and death in Sir Thomas Browne's writings. I have shared my previous and current research in print in Text & Presentation (2018) and at conferences which have been held in Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
As an early career researcher, I am grateful for the generous research support from a variety of institutions and organizations: the P.E.O. Scholar Award (2022), the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP), especially via MAP's Founders' Prize (2019 and 2022); the Graduate School, the Department of English, and the English Graduate Student Association at Loyola University Chicago (2016-2021); and the University Honors Program, the College of Arts and Science, and the Department of English at Miami University of Ohio (2012-2016).
Throughout my years at Loyola, I have supported University research initiatives and collaborated with faculty and graduate students across disciplines. My prior dynamic positions have entailed advocating, advertising, project managing, and creating copy for many programs made possible by the collaboration among departments at Loyola and at Northwestern - St. Paul. At Loyola, a few programs for which I have served include the Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Lecture in the Humanities and the McElroy Shakespeare Celebration, as well as the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), as Secretary (2018-19) and Vice President (2019-2020). At Northwestern - St. Paul, I am serving on the Academic Technology Roundtable and advancing faculty-student collaboration by facilitating professional development opportunities for undergraduates at the 2026 Festival of Faith & Writing in Michigan and at the 2026 summer courses to be held at the Santisuk School program in Thailand.
My research projects explore how and to what end ecopolitics are leveraged in Shakespeare's plays and poem that focus on figures and settings of the ancient Mediterranean world. I regularly conduct research in rare archives and special collections located in the United States and England; this archival research has informed my doctoral research, which I am sharing via two journal articles and a book-length manuscript. One of the journal articles has earned a revise-and-resubmit, and I will be submitting the other journal article and the book-length manuscript for initial consideration this year. Additionally, I have three works-in-progress that investigate, respectively, medieval moralistic treatises, the representation of care in John Milton's A Masque, and death in Sir Thomas Browne's writings. I have shared my previous and current research in print in Text & Presentation (2018) and at conferences which have been held in Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
As an early career researcher, I am grateful for the generous research support from a variety of institutions and organizations: the P.E.O. Scholar Award (2022), the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP), especially via MAP's Founders' Prize (2019 and 2022); the Graduate School, the Department of English, and the English Graduate Student Association at Loyola University Chicago (2016-2021); and the University Honors Program, the College of Arts and Science, and the Department of English at Miami University of Ohio (2012-2016).
Throughout my years at Loyola, I have supported University research initiatives and collaborated with faculty and graduate students across disciplines. My prior dynamic positions have entailed advocating, advertising, project managing, and creating copy for many programs made possible by the collaboration among departments at Loyola and at Northwestern - St. Paul. At Loyola, a few programs for which I have served include the Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Lecture in the Humanities and the McElroy Shakespeare Celebration, as well as the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), as Secretary (2018-19) and Vice President (2019-2020). At Northwestern - St. Paul, I am serving on the Academic Technology Roundtable and advancing faculty-student collaboration by facilitating professional development opportunities for undergraduates at the 2026 Festival of Faith & Writing in Michigan and at the 2026 summer courses to be held at the Santisuk School program in Thailand.