Office: Keezell 210

Fall 2025:
TBD

Specialization: 
Nineteenth-century African American Literature; Black feminist theory; Digital Humanities

Education: 
PhD, English and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2025
MA, English, Pennsylvania State University, 2021
BA, English with a concentration in African American Literature, High Honors, Emory University, 2018

Articles:
"Creating and Recreating Virtual Community on Douglass Day." Co-authored with Jim Casey and Justin Smith. Startwords 2 (2021).

Reviews:
Review of "The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative." By Gregg Hecimovich. Legacy 41, no. 2 (2024): 327-330.

Review of the "W.E.B. Du Bois Digitization Project." Reviews in Digital Humanities, forthcoming Winter 2025.

Online Publications:
"Forum on Black Age." G19 Collective: New Book Forum (2021).

"Transcribing Terrell: Douglass Day 2021, Black Women, and Community." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, "Covid-19 and the Archive" (online forum) (2022).

"Forum on Reading Pleasures." G19 Collective: New Book Forum (2024).

"Forum on Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre." G19 Collective: New Book Forum (2024).

"Forum on Glancing Visions." G19 Collective: New Book Forum (2024).

"Forum on Transoceanic Blackface." G19 Collective: New Book Forum (2024).

Public and Digital Humanities Projects and Work: 
"Junior Fellow Spotlight: Courtney Murray." Library of Congress, Headlines and Heroes (2023).

"The End: Looking Forward to the Eighth Biennial C19 Conference." C19 Podcast (2024).

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at 200. Co-curated with Dr. Samantha de Vera and Dr. Sherita L. Johnson (2025).

Fellowships: 
Andrew E. Mellon Foundation Fellowship Short-term Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2024-2025

Jay and Deborah Last Short-term Fellowship, The American Antiquarian Society, 2024-2025

George and Ann Richards Civil War Center, Centers and Institures Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2024-2025

Selected Awards and Grants: 
C19 Rising Scholar Prize, Honorable Mention, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2022

Equal Opportunity Planning Committee Grant, Pennsylvania State University, 2022-2023

Milton B. Dolinger Graduate Fellowship in Writing Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2022

Humanities Institute, Graduate Student Residency Program Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2024

Graduate Exhibition 2025, Second Place in the Research Poster, Arts, and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, 2025