EDUCATION

2024 — Ph.D.

University of Florida: English

Dissertation: “Just Fandom Things: A New Materialist Approach to Fandom Rhetoric” (Laura Gonzales and Kenneth Kidd, co-chairs)

2018 — M.A.

Kansas State University: English (Children’s Literature)

Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

2016 — B.A.

Hollins University: English major with honors, French minor

Summa cum laude, valedictorian, Phi Beta Kappa

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

In press

“We Have Never Been Acafans: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Approach to Media Fandom.” Posthumanism and Media Studies, edited by J.J. Sylvia IV & Poppy Wilde, special issue of Journal of Posthumanism.

2019

“Future Visions: Queer Utopia in Steven Universe.” Queer Futurities, edited by Angel Daniel Matos & Jon Wargo, special issue of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, vol. 2, iss. 1, June 2019. https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol2/iss1/5/.

2018

“Fan.” Keywords for Children’s Literature and Education, edited by Lissa Paul & Philip Nel, special issue of Brock Education, vol. 27, no. 1, Apr. 2018. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked/index.php/home/article/view/585.

Book Chapters

2020

“Off-Color, Off-Center: Decolonizing (in) Steven Universe.” Representation in Steven Universe, edited by Leah Richards and John R. Ziegler. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Book Reviews

2022

“Review of A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 5, Oct. 2022, pp. 1169-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13166.

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2023

Graduate Student Course Development Grant

Awarded by the Center for European Studies, University of Florida

2022

Rothman Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

Awarded by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida

2020

Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research

Participated in & received a grant from this Digital Humanities Institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities & hosted by the University of Central Florida, June 1-5, 2020

HONORS & AWARDS

2018

Children’s Literature Association: Graduate Student Essay Award

Awarded for “Her Dark Materials: Milton, Pullman, Fanfiction, and the Anxiety of Author(ity)”

Kansas State University: Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Graduate Essay Award

Awarded for “Sensing Utopia: The Queer Hope of Sense8”

2017

Kansas State University: Robert W. Conover Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in the English M.A. Program

INVITED TALKS

2024

“Using Television to Teach European Studies”

Educators-in-Residence Program, Center for European Studies at UF

Webinar, 10 Apr. 2024

2023

“Teaching Television in a European Studies Context”

Lunchtime Symposium Series, Center for European Studies at UF

Gainesville, FL, 3 Oct. 2023

“Just Fandom Things: A New Materialist Approach”

New Approaches to Material History, part of the UF Synergies series hosted by the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere

Virtual Talk, 30 Jan. 2023 (upcoming)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2023

“A Hashtag in Times Square: A New Materialist/Fanfiction Approach to Fan Campaigns”

Computers & Writing Conference

Hybrid Conference, 25 June 2023

2022

“All Aboard the S.S. Minty: A New Materialist Approach to Fandom Shipping Practices”

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference

Virtual Conference, 3 Apr. 2022

“For the Bible Tells Me So: Adaptation Transparency in Children’s Bible Texts”

Session on “Children’s Literature Pedagogies in an Age of Misinformation”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Virtual Conference, 8 Jan. 2022

2021

“‘This is how we survive get to peace’: Ecocriticism and Reparative Justice in The 100,” co-presented with Jamie Bienhoff

Children’s Literature Association Conference

Virtual Conference, 11 June 2021

2019

“Everything is Capitalism: Appropriation of Fan Creative Labor in The LEGO Movie”

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference

Washington, D.C., 20 Apr. 2019

“‘Shit Goes Boom’: Cloak & Dagger as Contemporary Race Melodrama”

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Orlando, FL, 14 Mar. 2019

2018

“Her Dark Materials: Milton, Pullman, Fanfiction, and the Anxiety of Author(ity)”

Children’s Literature Association Conference

San Antonio, TX, 29 June 2018

“Neoliberalism, Otherness, and the American Way: Narratives of Resistance in Supergirl and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference

Indianapolis, IN, 29 Mar. 2018

2017

“‘Maybe there are no good guys’: Differential Consciousness in The 100”

Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference

St. Louis, MO, 22 Oct. 2017

“Tangled in their Roots: Magic, Linguistics, and Ecofeminism in Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle”

Children’s Literature Association Conference

Tampa, FL, 23 June 2017

2015

“Beauty and the Beast and Calcifer: Deconstructing Gendered Binaries in Howl’s Moving Castle”

Children’s Literature Association Conference

Richmond, VA, 9 June 2015

DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS

2023

Guest Speaker, Panel on Writing Grant & Fellowship Applications

Graduate Professionalization Seminar

Gainesville, FL, 29 Sept. 2023

Participant, Roundtable on Generative AI in the Classroom

Virtual Event, 28 Apr. 2023

2022

“Ungrading Strategies for Graduate Instructors”

Graduate Panel on Teaching in the English Department

Gainesville, FL, 17 Aug. 2022

“Integrating Composition in the Film Classroom”

Teaching Film: A Roundtable for Graduate Instructors, hosted by the University of Florida Graduate Film Studies Group

Gainesville, FL, 7 Apr. 2022

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Florida

Instructor of Record:

20th Century English Novels (Summer 2024)

European Television on Netflix (Spring 2024)

Television & Electronic Culture (Summer 2022)

Film Analysis (Spring 2022, Spring & Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019)

Writing Through Media (Fall 2021: Tensions in Fandom, Spring 2019: Teen Television)

Expository and Argumentative Writing (Summer 2020)

Topics for Composition (Spring 2020: Writing about Children’s Media)

Rhetoric and Academic Research (Fall 2018)

Teaching Assistant:

Representations of War and Political Violence (with Dr. Eric Kligerman) (Fall 2022, Spring & Summer 2023)

Kansas State University

Instructor of Record

Fiction into Film (Spring 2018)

Expository Writing II: Persuasive Writing (Spring, Summer, & Fall 2017, Fall 2016)

TUTORING EXPERIENCE

2019-24: College Prep Tutor & Strategy Tutor, University of Florida Athletics

2016-18: English Tutor, Kansas State University Athletics

2017: Writing Center Tutor, Kansas State University

2013-16: Writing Center Tutor, Hollins University

SERVICE

ImageTexT

2021-present: Style Editor

University of Florida

2023: Research Assistant, English Department

2019-20: Secretary, English Graduate Organization

Kansas State University

2017-18: Student Representative, Cultural Studies Track Committee

2017-18: President, Student Organization for Cultural Studies

LANGUAGES

French (fair/conversational)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Modern Language Association

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

Children’s Literature Association