Academic Work
Essays in Collections
“Autofiction, Mediation, Parasocial Politics: Ben Lerner Against Authenticity.” Ben Lerner, Edges of Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Artistic Collaborations. Ed. Yannicke Chupin and Karim Daanoune. Routledge, 2026.
“Anxiety of Form: The Millennial Novel and Postsecular Politics.” The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. Ed. Christopher Lloyd and Löic Bourdeau. Edinburgh UP, 2025
“Men Playing Together: New Masculinities, Sport, and Contemporary Fiction.” The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture. Ed. Lydia Cooper. Routledge, 2022
“David Foster Wallace and Postsecularism.” David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Fiction and Faith. Ed. Michael McGowan and Martin Brick. Bloomsbury, 2019
Review Articles
“My Two Dans: Conglomeration, Criticism, and the Contemporary.” Qui Parle 33 (2), 2024: 363-384.
Recent Conference Papers
“Ben Lerner and the Promises of Parasocial Politics”
Ben Lerner Paris Conference 2023
“Is ‘masc’ the keyword? Curious Masculinity in Lolita”
MLA 2023
Partial CV
Education
Ph.D, English | University of California, Berkeley, in progress
M.A., English, concentration in literature and culture | Oregon State University, Spring 2018
B.A., English, summa cum laude | George Fox University, Spring 2016
Teaching Experience
Graduate Student Instructor | University of California, Berkeley, 2021-present
Adjunct Instructor | Clark College, 2018-2019
Adjunct Instructor | George Fox University, 2018-2019
Adjunct Instructor | Warner Pacific University, 2018-2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant | Oregon State University, 2016-2018
Composition Assistant (curriculum development) | Oregon State University, 2017-2018
Awards, Honors, Fellowships
2026:
Bonetti-Bell Fellow in Creative Writing | New Literary Project
2025:
Uchida Prize | UC Berkeley English Department
First Place, Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize | UC Berkeley
Bonetti-Bell Fellow in Creative Writing | New Literary Project
Residency | Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence (declined)
Invited Workshop Leader | UC Berkeley Early Academic Outreach Program
2024:
First Place, Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize | UC Berkeley
Invited Workshop Leader | UC Berkeley Early Academic Outreach Program
2023:
First Place, Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize | UC Berkeley
Simpson Fellow in Creative Writing | New Literary Project
Koshland Summer Teaching Fellow | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor | UC Berkeley English Department
New Directions in Theology Fellow | Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
2022:
First Place, Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize | UC Berkeley
Simpson Fellow in Creative Writing | New Literary Project
2019-2021:
Finalist, Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize | UC Berkeley
Runner-up, Summer Fiction Prize | Cream City Review
MLA Teaching Institute Fellow
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship | University of California Berkeley