I’m a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. My dissertation is a classroom history of the uneasy compromise between linguistic and symbolic capital—or between style as commodity and style as art—that has structured access to the expanded franchise of the English-speaking subject ever since English became an official feature of the Anglophone university curriculum in the 1880s. I received my BA and MA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto and have been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright program, the Mellon Foundation, the Beinecke Library, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, among others. 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, critical university studies, 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 in 2024 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, the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski Fellow at Yale University's Beinecke Library, and one of the coordinators for our Modernist and Contemporary Literatures Reading Group—a position I held from 2020-2023. 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), and a Diversity Mentorship Fellow with the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (2022-24).