I’m a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Global Anglophone literature, critical university studies, comparative race and empire studies, archival theory and practice, and the practice of literary criticism. My dissertation constructs a global history of the "English-speaking subject" through an examination of the stylistic devices (pathetic fallacy, mixed metaphor, run-on sentence, ambiguity, paradox) that non-elite Anglophone students have been taught to identify in works of literature but avoid repeating in their own writing since English became an academic discipline in the late 1880s. I received my BA and MA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, and my work has been recognized by fellowships from the Fulbright program, the Mellon Foundation, the Beinecke Library, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, among others. An article drawn from my dissertation is forthcoming with ELH. 

At Penn, I've taught or helped teach courses on everything from modern and contemporary US poetry to queer theory, critical university studies, psychoanalysis, Victorian literature, Global Anglophone literature, literature and medicine, the theory of the novel, and composition—particularly for first generation university students. In 2024, I received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students for my One Series course, "Reading Middlemarch." For the 2026-2027 academic year, I'm the Critical Speaking Fellow with the School of Arts and Science's Communication Within the Curriculum Program. Previously, I was the One Series Mentor for gradute student teachers in the Department of English (2025-2026); a fellow at Penn's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (2024-25); the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski Fellow at Yale University's Beinecke Library (2024); a Diversity Mentorship Fellow with the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (2022-24); a Mellon Mid-Doctoral Fellow with Penn's Price Lab (2022-23); a Steinberg Graduate Fellow in English at Penn (2021-22); and a coordinator of the Department of English's Modernist and Contemporary Literatures Reading Group (2020-2025).