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EDUCATION

Graduate Center, City University of New York                                           New York, NY

Ph.D., English Literature                                                                    Expected May 2021

 

University of Southern Mississippi                                                          Hattiesburg, MS

B.A. in English and Anthropology                                                                      May 2015

Summa cum laude

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CUNY Queens College, Adjunct Lecturer                                              Aug 2016-present

Sesame Street Writer’s Project, Script Reader                                        February 2018

CUNY Graduate Center, Teaching Assistant for Jonathan Grey      Jan 2017- May 2017

Sesame Street Writer’s Project, Script Reader                                        February 2017

CUNY Graduate Center, Research Assistant for Carrie Hintz         Aug 2015-May 2016

ASSAP, Hattiesburg, MS, Afternoon Teacher                                   June 2015-Aug 2015

University of Southern MS, FYI Math Tutor                            October 2012-May 2015

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Radford University, San Diego Comic-Con Field Study                                       July 2017

CUNY Queens College, Language Lab Workshop                             Feb 2016-May 2017

CUNY Queens College, Pedagogy Development Committee           Sept 2016-May 2017

Honors Mentor, Honors College Ambassador Program           August 2013-May 2015

English Mentor, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society        August 2014-May 2015

Liberal Arts Ambassador, University of Southern                     August 2014-May2015

Mississippi

 

COURSES TAUGHT

English 165W, Introduction to Poetry: Women’s Poetic Voice                   expected Fall 2018

English 130, Writing About Literature: Women’s Life Writing                expected Fall 2018

English 110, College Writing I: Narratives of Friendship                  expected Summer 2018

English 242, Literary History: Women’s Literary History                                      Spring 2018

English 130, Writing About Literature: Gothic Monsters                                       Spring 2018

English 110, College Writing I: Cultural Identity of Girlhood                                      Fall 2017

English 110, College Writing I: Cultural Identity of Girlhood                                      Fall 2017

English 110, College Writing I: The Visual World of the Other                               Spring 2017

English 110, College Writing I: Bodies in the Visual World                                          Fall 2016

English 110, College Writing I: Bodies in the Visual World                                          Fall 2016

 

PUBLICATION

“Separating the Feminist Icon and the Comic Book Character:                    May 2016

Marston’s Wonder Woman and Feminism.” The Journal of

Comics And Culture. 1.1 (2016). Print.

 

AWARDS & HONORS

CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Student Research Grant                                   June 2017

CUNY Graduate Center Conference Presentation Support                                    Fall 2016

CUNY Graduate Center Five Year Funding and Tuition Fellowship  Aug 2015-May 2021

Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities                                            Spring 2015

University of Southern Mississippi Presidential Scholarship             Aug 2011-May 2015

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association,                      May 2018-present

Admissions & Financial Aid Committee

CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association,                      May 2018- present

Placement Committee

CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association,                     April 2017-May 2018

Co-Chair

CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association,                     April 2017-May 2018

Teaching Mentor

CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association,                 Aug 2016- April 2017

Student Mentor

CUNY Graduate Center, English Student Association,                April 2016-April 2017

Elections Committee

USM, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society                            April 2014- April 2015

Co-President

USM, Honors College Ambassadors, Vice-President                      Sept 2015-April 2015

 

CONFERENCES

“The Culture of Comic-Con: Field Studies of Fans and Marketing.”           Exp. July 2017

San Diego Comic Con                                                                                               San Diego, CA

“The Trauma of a Gendered Environment: Chaos Walking                                 June 2017

and the Path to an Egalitarian Society.” Children’s Literature                            Tampa, FL

Association

“Forget the Old…The New Wonder Woman is Here’: Diana Prince                      June 2016

as a Feminist Role Model for Girls from 1968-1972.” Children’s               Columbus, OH

Literature Association

“Forget the Old…The New Wonder Woman is Here”: The New                         April 2015

Wonder Woman and the Feminist Movement, 1968-1972.”                       Hattiesburg, MS

Undergraduate Research Symposium

“Selling Yourself: Eliza Doolittle’s Struggle to Find Gender                                April 2014

Equality in Shaw’s Pygmalion.” Undergraduate Research Symposium     Hattiesburg, MS

 

AFFILIATIONS

Children’s Literature Association

Modern Language Association

Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

 

SCHOLARLY AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Girlhood; series books; comics studies; visual texts and culture; children’s and young adult literature; women’s life writing; women and gender studies; popular culture; feminist theory; cultural studies