• Ph.D. in English, University of Florida
• M.A. in English, University of Florida
• B.A. in Liberal Studies - English, Florida Gulf Coast University

• Environmental Humanities
• Environmental Science Fiction
• Contemporary Horror Fiction
• Interdisciplinary Humanities Pedagogy
• Curriculum Leadership and Assessment

• HUM 1020: Introduction to Humanities
• IDS 3622: Issues in the Humanities
• IDS 4910: Integrated Studies Senior Seminar

The Liverpool Handbook of Environmental Science Fiction. Editor. Liverpool University Press, forthcoming.

With Miles Mancini and Sam Walch. “Thinking in Science Fiction: Genre-Informed Scenario-Based Learning to Introduce the Humanities.” Reimagining Science Fiction: Essays on 21st Century Ideas and Authors, edited by Gary Westfahl, McFarland Press, 2025.

With Sasha L. Wohlpart, Brendan Bevins, Diane Bondehagen, Jessica P. Marcolini, Maria F. Loffredo Roca, Tunde Szecsi, and Hulya Julie Yazici. “Infusing Sustainability Across the Curriculum.” Making the Sustainable University: Trials and Tribulations, edited by Katie Leone, Simeon Komisar, and Edwin M. Everham III, Springer, 2021.

“Killing Oliver Queen: Environmentalist Meaning and Demeaning in Green Arrow.” EcoComix: Ecocriticism and Comics Studies, edited by Sidney I. Dobrin, McFarland, 2020.

“Science Fiction and the Revenge of Nature: Environmentalism (1990s–2010s).” The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, edited by Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“‘The Rain Feels New’: Ecotopian Strategies in the Short Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi.” Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson, Wesleyan University Press, 2014.

Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism. Ohio State University Press, 2012.

“‘From a Certain Angle’: Ecothriller Reading and Science Fiction Reading The Swarm and The Rapture.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012.

“Ecofeminist Theories of Liberation in the Science Fiction of Sally Miller Gearhart, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joan Slonczewski.” Feminist Ecocriticism, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, Lexington Books, 2012.

With A. James Wohlpart. “Creating a Culture of Sustainability: Infusing Sustainability into the Humanities.” Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009.