I am a sixth year PhD candidate in the English department at Penn, where I have received a certificate in cinema and media studies. I am also a visiting instructor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Haverford College, and an AAUW American Dissertation Fellow. I have a BA in English from Brown University. 

My dissertation, "Teens on TV: School, Work, and the Failed Revolution," reads the genre of high school TV through the lens of the student politics of the sixties. My research interests also include media studies, political economy, critical theory, including queer theory. 

I have taught or assisted courses on writing, television and new media, queer studies, contemporary political art, Marxist theory, and teenage culture. I also have experience teaching at the high school and grade school level. I was one of the organizers of the "Spinoza After Marx" conference in May 2021, hosted by the Penn Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. I was a recipient of the William Patrick Day Prize in 2024 and the Dick Wolf Award for Best Graduate Essay in Cinema and Media Studies in 2021.