Degrees
2016, MA English, University of Missouri at Columbia
2014, BA English (French minor), Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
Bio
I focus on pre-1900 American literature and have a special interest in poetics, critical animal studies, histories of natural science, Native American literature, and transatlantic Romanticism.
Publications:
“A Posthumous Life: Thoreau and the Possibilities of Posthuman Biography,” The Concord Saunterer Vol. 27, 2019 (roundtable article from MLA 2019)
Review of Laura Dassow Walls’s Henry David Thoreau: A Life for the Emerson Society Papers (Fall 2018, vol. 29, no. 2)
Online Review of LeAnne Howe’s Savage Conversations for The Carolina Quarterly (March 2019)
Online Review of Caleb Johnson’s Treeborne: A Novel for The Carolina Quarterly (September 2018)
Online Review of Filip Springer’s History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town for The Carolina Quarterly (April 2018)
Awards
Robert Bain Award for Excellence Achieved by a Second-Year Student in Pre-1900 American Literature, 2018