Phone: 540/568-6498
Office: Carrier 123/Johnston 122
Education:
M.A. English, James Madison University, 2017
B.A., English, Eastern Mennonite University, 2012
Research Interests:
19th-20th C. British literature; history of medicine; literature and epigenetics; trauma theory.
Conference Presentations:
April 2017 | “Hand this over. Pass this on”: Juliana Spahr’s “Tradition” and Epigenetics in the Anthropocene; Georgetown University English Graduate Conference, Washington, D.C.
March 2017 | Neither Isolation nor Fusion: Hierarchy, Solitude, and Society in Thomas Merton’s Theology; College English Association Annual Conference, Hilton Head, SC
Nov. 2016 | Inviting and Isolating Solitudes in Paradise Lost; South Atlantic Regional Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Jacksonville, FL
March 2016 | Is True Love True: A Lacanian Look at Love in Sonnet 138; College English Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO
Dec. 2015 | A Lacanian Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138; Panel Chair, James Madison University Graduate Conference, Harrisonburg, VA