I am a writer and scholar of literary and cultural analysis, with a focus on feminist issues, current and past, and the representation of women in popular culture and performance. My work specifically examines the intersections of gendered identity, spectatorship, spectacle, and the embodied self.

I am currently writing my dissertation that examines nineteenth century American women writers’ relationship to public, gendered embodiment through performance.

Academic Publications

In Process

“The Worldly Glitter of Femininity”: Queer Desire, Subversive Gestures, and the Circum-Caribbean Carnival in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Early Short Stories for Legacy

Selected Conference Papers

Society for the Study of American Women Writers. (panel chair & paper presentation). “An instance of disagreeable recognition”: Print and Performance in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Dress Reform Activism / Philadelphia, PA.

English Shared Futures. (paper presentation). “Is Taylor Swift the Future of English Studies?: What the Harvard University Taylor Swift English Course Can Teach Us” / York, England.

55th Annual NeMLA Convention. (paper presentation). “Surviving Absence: Reimagining Black Women’s Cultural Expression from the Archive” / Boston, MA.

Criticism Slam. (paper presentation).“Towards a Digital Gestural Drama: Recovering Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Cultural Expression for a 21st Century Audience” / Boston, MA.

SAMLA 92: Scandal! Literature and Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts. (paper presentation). “The Worldly Glitter of Femininity: Gestures of Queer Desire in the Circum-Caribbean Carnival in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “Sister Josepha” / Virtual.

Southern Writers/Southern Writing. (paper presentation). “Breaking the Curse”: Southern Femininity and the Plantation Scopic Regime in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Lemonade / Oxford, MS.

SEWSA 19: Envisioning a Feminist and Queer South. (paper presentation). “Two Selves are at War”: Southern Female Identity and the Regional Conflict in Sherwood Bonner’s Like unto Like / Oxford, MS.

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