Education

PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2023
     Thesis: "Fallen Flesh: Experiencing the Body in the Middle English Lives of Adam and Eve"
MA, University of South Florida, 2018
BA, University of South Florida, 2015

Areas of Specialization

Medieval & Early Modern Literature
Religious Studies / History of Christianity
Hermeneutics
Popular Religious Texts & Adaptations
Gender Studies
Body Theory

Courses Taught

ENGL 101: Critical Reading and Composition
ENGL 102: Rhetoric and Composition

Publications

• “Eve (Un)Bound: Bounding the Maternal Body in the Middle English Lives of Adam and Eve.” Motherhood in the Medieval World: Mothers in History, Literature, and Politics, c.300-1400, edited by Kirsty Bolton and Lauren Sisson, Brepols. (forthcoming)
• “Hellish Indigestion: Consumption as Knowledge in Medieval Descensus Christi Accounts.” Quidditas 42 (2021): 79-99.

Selected Presentations

• Invited Speaker, English Career Week panel on Graduate Study. University of South Florida, 2022.
• Invited Speaker, “Transition to In-Person Teaching.” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, First-Year Composition Instructor Workshops, 2021.
• “Multimodality in the Holkham Bible Picture Book.” Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference, 2019.
• Co-presenter with Ricketts, E., Kuliyeva, L. “Visualizing the Mappable and the Unmappable in Spenser’s Faerie Queene.” HASTAC, 2017.
• “‘New strength within me rise’: Empowering the Monstrous Mother of Paradise Lost.” Conference on John Milton, 2017.
• “‘Heofon rece swealg’: Pagan Tradition and the Ambiguous Afterlife in Beowulf.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2017.