Academic Work

Essays in Collections

“’Is that theory or just theology?’: Postsecular Realism and the Millennial Novel.” The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. Ed. Christopher Lloyd and Löic Bourdeau. Edinburgh UP, in progress

“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 Essays

My Two Dans: Conglomeration, Criticism, and the Contemporary.” Qui Parle 33 (2): 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

Koshland Summer Teaching Fellow, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 2023

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley English Department, 2023

First Place, Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize, 2022; 2023

New Directions in Theology Fellow, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, 2023

Simpson Fellow in Creative Writing, New Literary Project, 2022; 2023

Finalist, Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize, 2021

MLA Teaching Institute Fellow, 2020-2021

Winner, 2018 Oregon State University Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

Institutional Nominee, 2018 WAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

Charles Snowden Internship for Excellence in Journalism, 2016

Charles Snowden Award for Excellence in Journalistic Ethics, 2016