Education:
P.h.D, University of Tulsa, English Language and Literature, December 2021
Exam Areas: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British, Romanticism.
M.A. University of Tulsa, English Language and Literature, May 2017
MA Project: “Recalling ‘the amorous confessor:’ Tracing the Influence of the French 1731 Girard-Cadière Trial,” Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Airey.
B.A. University of Oklahoma, December 2014, English Literary and Cultural Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Major GPA 4.0
Thesis: “Effect of Hospitalization on the Birthing Practices of Native American Women in Oklahoma,” Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Holland.
Academic Appointments:
Graduate Assistant, University of Tulsa 2015-2021
Honors and Awards:
Recipient Nieta M. Pinkerton Endowed Graduate
Fellowship for International Research Summer 2020
Chapman Distinguished Ph.D. Award Spring 2019
Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Scholar 2018-2021
Chapman Graduate Scholar Presentation Award Spring 2017
Star Senator, Graduate Student Association Spring 2016
Chapman Graduate Scholar Presentation Award Spring 2016
Star Senator, Graduate Student Association Fall 2015
Cherokee Nation Scholar 2012-2016
Graduate with Distinction, University of Oklahoma 2014
Presidents Honor Roll, University of Oklahoma 2013-2014
Deans Honor Roll, University of Oklahoma 2012-2013
Freshman University Scholar, University of Oklahoma 2011
Publications:
The University of Tulsa Student Guide to Writing for the Professions, 3rd ed. 2018
“Before I Burn” Nota Bene Review, World Literature Today January/February 2014
“Children of the Days” Nota Bene Review, World Literature Today November/December 2013
“Dark Company” Nota Bene Review, World Literature Today November/December 2013
Conference Presentations:
“‘Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know’: Notoriety in the Eighteenth Century” Panel Organizer and Co-Chair, 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of the Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 22nd, 2019.
“‘I begin to guess what is design’d for me’: Female Intuition in Fielding’s The Old Debauchees,” Presentation, 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of the Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 23rd, 2019.
“‘the dupe of her own purity’: Desire in Vancenza: or the Dangers of Credulity,” Presentation, The 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 23rd, 2018.
“Blurred Boundaries and the Performance of Innocence: Tracing the Influence of the French 1731 Girard-Cadière Trial,” Presentation, Women and the City, Aphra Behn Society Conference, November 2nd, 2017.
“Food, Booze, and Sex,” Panel Chair, Dusting off the Archives, 9th Sesquiannual University of Tulsa English Graduate Student Conference, October 21st, 2017.
“Recalling ‘the amorous confessor:’ Tracing the Influence of the French 1731 Girard-Cadière Trial,” Presentation, Dusting off the Archives, 9th Sesquiannual University of Tulsa English Graduate Student Conference, October 20th, 2017.
“‘The Amorous Confessor’: Sex, Religion, and Proto-Genre in the Girard-Cadière Trial and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk,” Presentation, Colonial Intersections in the Eighteenth Century, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2nd, 2017.
“Sexual Desire and Threatened Masculinity in Sophia Lee’s The Recess,” Presentation, 19th Annual Research Colloquium, University of Tulsa, April 5th, 2016.
“Female Sexual Desire and Unreliable Narratorship in Sophia Lee’s The Recess,” Presentation, East Meets West in the Long Eighteenth Century, South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 41st Annual Meeting, February 27th, 2016.
“Endometriosis: A Social Justice Issue,” Poster Session, Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice, University of Oklahoma, February 20th-22nd, 2014.
“My Uterus, My Problem,” Presentation, Sooner Mosaic: Social Justice Symposium, University of Oklahoma, March 1st, 2014.
Invited Talks:
Invited Talk, Adulting 101: A.C.T Prep, Sapulpa Public Library, February 2022.
Invited Talk, “Mary Robinson’s Vancenza” University of Tulsa Course, “Dangerous Passions in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” April 2018.
Invited Talk, “Teacher Talk”, University of Tulsa Writing Program, October 2017.
Academic Service:
Meeting Room Liason, 51st Annual Meeting of the
American Society of the Eighteenth-Century Studies April 2021
Organizer, Embedded Writing Center Consultant Pilot Spring 2021
Workshop Leader, University of Tulsa Writing Program Spring 2021
Pilot Participant, First Seminar FS 1963/1900 Fall 2020
Workshop Leader, University of Tulsa Writing Program Fall 2020
Conference Organizer, EGSA 10th Sesquiannual Conference Fall 2017-Spring 2019
3003 ENS Student Guide Revisions Committee Spring 2018
President, English Graduate Student Association, University of Tulsa Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Judge, 21st Annual Student Research Colloquium Spring 2018
Writing Program Portfolio Assessment Committee Fall 2017
Hospitality Committee Chair, EGSA 9th Sesquiannual Conference Fall 2017
Judge, 20th Annual Student Research Colloquium Spring 2017
Vice-President, English Graduate Student Association, University of Tulsa Spring 2017
Webmaster, English Graduate Student Association, University of Tulsa Fall 2016
Committee Co-chair, 19th Annual Student Research Colloquium Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Senator, GSA, University of Tulsa Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Internships:
Editing Intern, Mongrel Empire Press 2014
Editing Intern, World Literature Today August-October 2013
Community Service:
Judge, Sapulpa Public Library
EGSA Writing Mentor, EGSA Partnership with Central High School Fall 2017-2018
Administrative Volunteer, Mounds Public Library 2012-2016
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