CV
Things I May Have Done
Roles​
Postdoctoral Fellow & Project Manager, Center for Recovering Penguin Enthusiasts:
worked with a team of cross-disciplinary polar scholars to develop a collaborative online platform, pin.guino, for visualizing waddling. Led the Happy Feet reading group, invited and facilitated guest speakers with the Waddling Initiative, assisted with other tasks, often in sub-zero conditions.
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Aliens-R-Us: taught first-year abduction seminars; managed the Center for Probe Specialists’ social media; assisted in strategic abduction planning; organized the Abduction Festival, an interactive event for over 250 potential abductees; and designed and facilitated the support group for near-abductees, The Tractor Beam Not Taken (TBNT).
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Awards
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Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Competition Finalist, for Pornostiltskin (querying). 2024.
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Pushcart Prize Nomination, for "Splinter." 2024.
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Publications
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"Angelica at the Rock (after Ingres)," The Pinch, Fall 2023.
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"Splinter," Peatsmoke: A Literary Journal, Summer 2023.
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"Separation Anxiety," Southern Indiana Review, Spring 2023.
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“Djuna Barnes’ Antihumanist Reproduction,” Textual Practice, September 2020, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2020.1808299.
“Theorizing the Extra in The Comfort of Strangers,” The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama, vol. 1, 2017, pp. 105-121.
“Edith Sitwell’s Self-Marketing Genius,” The Many Façades of Edith Sitwell, edited by Allan Pero and Gyllian Phillips, University Press of Florida, 2017, pp. 140-160.
Book Reviews
“Departmental Murders.” Review of April Cruel by Katherine H. Burkman. The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama, vol. 4, 2020, p. 135-7.
Presentations
“Screenplays about Novels about Movies: Harold Pinter’s Filmic Adaptations,” Modern Language Association Conference, January 2019.
“The Slow Time of Oracular Trash Heaps,” invited roundtable and panel participant, Conference of the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP), October 2018.
“Marianne Moore, Poemicidal Mania, and Late Style,” The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2018.
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“Time Travel and the Pre-Existing Condition,” Society for Literature, Science, and Arts Conference, November 2017.
“The Real as Reel: Keaton, Kaufman, and Actuality,” Ersatzism: A Conference and Workshop on the Cultural Logic of Inauthenticity, May 2017.
“Time Traveling Fools in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” Panel Chair, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, November 2016.
“Object-Oriented Apocalypse,” The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2016.
“Fleshing Out Time Travel,” Conference Organizer, Paleofuturism/Retropresentism, April 2015.
“What’s Around the Red Wheelbarrow,” Panel Chair, The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2015.
“Theorizing the Extra in Harold Pinter’s The Comfort of Strangers,” Modern Language Association Conference, January 2015.
“Digitizing Marianne Moore,” Seminar on Digitizing the Work of Modernist American Female Poets, Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 2014.
“Edith Sitwell’s Self-Marketing Genius,” The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2014.
“The Gem-Encrusted Spoon of Poesy: Recovering Hernia Whittlebot,”Alternative Modernisms, international, interdisciplinary conference in Cardiff, Wales, May 2013.
“Performing the Recording: Edith Sitwell’s Façade,” Panel Chair, The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2013.
“Conning the Archive: Marianne Moore Bamboozles ‘Poetry,’” The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2012.
“Toying in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood,” Panel Chair, The Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, November 2012.
“Zombification and Desubjectification,” Rice University English Symposium, Fall 2010.
“Syntactical Distancing in the Case of Myra Ical,” Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Graduate Student Symposium, Spring 2010.