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