Curriculum Vitae:
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis
PhD in English, September 2023
Dissertation title: “The Book of Nature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Poetry & the Poetics of Earth System Design”
Committee: Prof. Tobias Menely (Chair), Prof. Elizabeth Miller, Prof. Margaret Ronda
Rutgers University
BA in English Language and Literature, 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Davis
Lecturer, Fall 2023–Spring 2024
Writers’ Workshop, Department of English, Spring 2024
Lower-division, cross-disciplinary writing course with a writing-studio and process-oriented approach.
Topics in Literature, Department of English, Winter 2024
“Appetite, Empire, and the Consumption of Nature”
Upper-division, topical literature course; syllabus, readings, and assignments of my own design.
Introduction to Literature, Department of English, Fall 2023–Winter 2024
Introductory literature and writing course with a process-oriented approach.
Literature by Women, 1800–1900, Department of English, Fall 2023
“Women, Health, and Monstrosity”
Upper-division course on the literature of a particular period; syllabus, readings, and assignments of my own design.
Associate Instructor, Fall 2018–Spring 2023
Introductory Topics in Poetry, Department of English, Spring 2023
“Unruly Natures, Rambunctious Women: Poetics of Chaos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
Introductory, topical literature course; syllabus, readings, and assignments of my own design.
Introduction to Literature, Department of English, Fall 2019–Winter 2023
Introductory literature and writing course with a process-oriented approach.
Expository Writing, University Writing Program, Fall 2018–Spring 2019
First-year, cross-disciplinary writing course with a process-oriented approach.
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2016–Spring 2018
Expository Writing, University Writing Program, Fall 2017–Spring 2018
Literature and the Environment, Department of English, Spring 2017
with Prof. Hsuan Hsu
Intro to Modern Literary & Critical Theory, Department of English, Winter 2017
with Prof. Kathleen Frederickson
British Romantic Literature, Fall 2016
with Prof. David Simpson
Guru English School, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Instructor, Summer 2014–Spring 2015
English as a Second Language
Created and conducted lesson plans and curricula for a diversity of learners, from group college-level classrooms
to private tutoring sessions for primary and secondary students, and from beginner- and intermediate-level
grammar lessons to conversational and academic writing practice with advanced speakers.
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness
Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow, Summer 2020–Summer 2022
Conducted one-on-one pedagogy and professionalization consultations for instructors across all disciplines.
Co-facilitated the 2020 & 2021 UC Davis TA Teaching Orientations.
Co-created and -facilitated evidence-based pedagogy workshops, including:
“The Goal is the Guide: Effective Lesson Planning,”
“Facilitating Small Group Activities in Remote Courses,”
and “Creating Accessible Course Materials.”
Collaboratively developed material for UC Davis Just-In-Time Teaching resources and guides.
Co-created and -edited the pedagogy podcast The Teaching Scoop.
Peralta Community College District
Faculty Diversity Internship, Fall 2021–Spring 2022
Monthly professional development workshops on community college demographics,
educational goals and strategies, and classroom pedagogy.
UC Davis Department of English
Teaching Assistant Consultant, Fall 2021
Collaboratively created, developed, and led an introductory practicum course for incoming English Department graduate students and TAs.
PUBLICATIONS
“Teacher as Student: Matters of Exploration and Radical Vulnerability in the Classroom,” Exploring How We Teach: Lived Experience, Lessons, and Research for Graduate Students by Graduate Students, ed. Samantha Clem. Utah: USU Press, 2022.
with Ashley Bender, Daniella Berman, Jenny Factor, Catherine Keohane, Susannah Sanford McDaniel, Bénédicte Miyamoto, Kelly Plant, Elizabeth Porter, Karenza Sutton, and Bethany Qualls, “Continuing to #WriteWithAphra: A Year of Collegiality and Compassion,” Aphra Behn Online 11, no. 2 (2021).
Forthcoming Publications
“William Blake’s Arks, Watercolors, and Hydro-aesthetics of Human Design” [under review at Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly].
Manuscripts Under Preparation
“Gerard Manley Hopkins, Architectural Acoustics, and Some Hope for Human Design.”
Review Publications
“Clearing Space for Contingency in the Victorian Era,” Review of Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play by Tina Young Choi, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts [forthcoming].
review of “Melancholic Environment” NASSR 2019, Romantic Circles: 2019
SELECTED TALKS AND ROUNDTABLES
“Classroom Conversations, Architectural Acoustics, and the Waveforms of Learning,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 8–11 July 2025, College Park, MD.
“Charlotte Smith’s Sketchbook and the Giants of the South Downs,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Mar. 28–29 and Apr. 4–5, 2025, online.
“Solarpoetics and the Metabolic Muchness of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ (1862).” Modern Language Association Conference, 4–7 Jan. 2024, Philadelphia, PA.
“The Metabolics of Christina Rossetti's ‘Goblin Market’ (1862),” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 9–12 July 2023, Portland, OR.
“The Portland Vase and the Mysterious Initiations of Erasmus Darwin's Visual Poetics.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9–11 Mar. 2023, St. Louis, MO.
“Hopkins and Unraveling the Gimmicks of Industrial Design.” Hopkins, Voice, and Echo: International Hopkins Conference, 23–24 Sep. 2022, online.
“Working for Good or Evil”: The Missing Magdalene in Anna Jameson’s Sacred and Legendary Art (1848).” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, 24–27 Mar. 2022, Salt Lake City, UT.
“The Gimmicks and Poetics of Geoengineering.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 26 Jul.–6 Aug. 2021, online.
“Erasmus Darwin’s Volition and the Proliferation of Unintended Consequences.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, 5–8 Mar. 2020, Los Angeles, CA.
“‘To read in nature’s book’: Poetry and Environment in Charlotte Smith’s Conversations Introducing Poetry.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, 8–11 Aug. 2019, Chicago, IL.
“‘And for all this, nature is never spent’: Ecology and Design in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Posthuman Poetics.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 26–30 June 2019, Davis, CA.
“‘Panting, Conglobing, Trembling’: Continuity and Rupture in the Spheres of Burke and Blake.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, 22–25 June 2019, Providence, RI.
INVITED TALKS
“Visual Poetics, Zines, and Storytelling Beyond Text,” Science and Technology Studies 115: Data Storytelling, UC Davis. (Invited by Alejandro Ponce de Leon), 2 March 2023.
“Group Discussion Methods,” Introduction to Literature Pedagogy graduate seminar, UC Davis. (Invited by Prof. Matthew Stratton), 13 May 2022.
“Centering Student Ideas in Group Discussion,” Introduction to Literature Pedagogy graduate seminar, UC Davis. (Invited by Prof. Matthew Stratton), 14 May 2021.
“The Book of Thel and Muttering Nature,” British Romantic Literature, UC Davis. (Invited by Prof. David Simpson), 27 Oct. 2016.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable Chair, 2023
“The Effect of Illustration”
Roundtable Chair, 2021
“That’s So Metal: Hardcore Heroines in the Long Eighteenth Century,” organized by Bethany Qualls
UC Davis Department of English
Graduate Student Representative, 2019–2020
Computer, Technology, and Library Committee
UC Davis English Graduate Student Association
MLA Representative, 2020–2021
Organizer of UC Davis graduate student funding at 2021 MLA Convention in response to organizational circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organizer and facilitator of MLA Convention debrief.
Scholar Symposium Co-Chair, 2018–2019
Co-organizer and facilitator of professional development workshop, including, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Conferences, “Websites 101,” and “Social Media, Networking, and You”
English Department Graduate Student Representative, 2016–2017
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2021–2022
Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship Award, UC Davis, 2020
Walter & Diane Harrison Travel Fellowship, UC Davis, 2019
Provost’s First Year Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2015–2016
SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, AND OTHER FUNDING
Graduate Student Bursary, NASSR, 2018
Summer Language Grant, Department of English, UC Davis, 2016
Summa Cum Laude, Rutgers University, 2014
Paul Robeson Scholar, Rutgers University, 2014
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
POD Network in Higher Education
EDITORIAL WORK AND SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGN
Social media designer and manager, 2025–present
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Copy editor and proofreader, 2019–present
My editorial work can be seen in the following philanthropic reports and indices:
Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy (2025) and Global Philanthropy Environment Index (GPEI)
Los Angeles Review of Books Publication Workshop
Workshop fellow, Summer 2019
Co-founder and -editor, 2018–present
Zine and art collective
CERTIFICATIONS, LANGUAGES, AND OTHER SKILLS
Certifications
UndocuAlly Certification, 2020
Certification that identifies campus allies for undocumented students.
Professional learning opportunity for educators to develop and enhance
their working knowledge regarding servicing undocumented student populations.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certification, 2014
Languages
English, Native speaker
French, Conversational, reading, and translation proficiency
German, Reading and translation proficiency
Thai, Beginner conversational proficiency
Software Proficiencies
Microsoft Office Suite
Google Workspace
Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
Zoom Video Communication Software
Procreate Raster Graphics Editor
Affinity Designer Vector Graphics Editor
Audacity Audio Editing Software
Canvas Learning Management System
Trello Project Management Software
Wordpress Content Management System
Zotero Citation Management Software
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
