I'm a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. I hold a BA in English and the Study of Women and Gender from Smith College (2020) and am a first-generation college graduate. My interests span span 20th and 21st century American literatures and cultures, with particular emphasis on gender and sexuality studies. In 2024, I was awarded the Nancy Rafetto Leach Sweeten Prize for my paper entitled "Negativity, or, the Style of Butch Pragmatism," which explores questions of tone, narrativity, and the afterlives of Lee Edelman's insistence on social negativity in AK Summers's 2015 graphic memoir Pregnant Butch. I have served as president (2024-2025) and treasurer (2025-2026) of the Graduate English Assocation and I have also co-coordinated the department's working group in Modernist and Contemporary Literature (2025-2026). In Spring 2026, I worked alongside Heather K. Love to organize Queer Class/Room, a two day symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Queer-Class Relations Conference at CUNY's Center for LGBTQ Studies. At the conference, I spoke as part of a panel called "Lesbian and Queer Genres of Underclass Intimacy." 

I have taught or helped to teach courses on Virginia Woolf, the formation of academic queer studies, and 20th century American literature. In Fall 2026, I will be teaching a course called Dykes to Watch Out For: Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Comics that takes as its central text Alison Bechdel's syndicated comic strip of the same name. I'm currently in the early stages of work on my dissertation, which thinks about the relationship of lesbian erotic and social formations to urban/rural geographies, class stratification, family, and labor in lifewriting from 1980-present.