I’m a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in nineteenth century British literature and twentieth-century literary history. My dissertation works out a political genealogy for the tropes essential to English education in the modern period by examining the cultural forms that enabled their consolidation as pedagogical devices within universities across the Anglophone world. I received a BA and MA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto and have received fellowships from the Fulbright program, the Mellon Foundation, the Beinecke Library, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as well as several competive grants from Penn. Related interests include the history of aesthetics and rhetoric, the theory of the novel, critical university studies, the environmental humanities, and the practice of literary criticism.

At Penn, I've taught or helped teach courses on everything from modern and contemporary US poetry to queer theory, psychoanalysis, Victorian literature, literature and medicine, and composition, particularly for first generation university students. I received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students for my One Series course, "Reading Middlemarch." For the 2024-25 academic year, I'll be a fellow at Penn's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation as well as the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski Fellow at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Previously, I was a Steinberg Graduate Fellow in English at Penn (2021-22), a Mellon Mid-Doctoral Fellow with Penn's Price Lab (2022-23), a Diversity Mentorship Fellow with the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (2022-24), and a coordinator for our Modernist and Contemporary Literature Reading Group (2020-23).