• Ph.D. in English, minor in Women's and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University
• MA in English, University of Kansas
• BA in English, Palm Beach Atlantic University

• Early American literature
• 19th-century American literature
• U.S. women writers
• Digital humanities
• Travel writing
• Gender & sexuality studies
• Feminist theory

Has published essays in prominent journals including College Literature, Studies in American Culture, Studies in American Naturalism, and JASNA. Has an article forthcoming in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers in Spring 2025. Currently, is working on a monograph titled: Idle Women: Productivity and the Power of Inaction in American Women’s Writing, 1773-1861

• “Translating Worlds: Gendered Code and Role-Switching During Covid” Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages. Modern Language Association (MLA), January 2022.
• “Recovery Hub for American Women Writers: Digital Tools for Teaching Workshop” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, November 2021.
• “Women Rewriting Revolutions: Race, Rebellion, and Rose in Catharine Sedgwick’s The Linwoods” Gender and Genre in the Early Nineteenth Century. Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, November 2021.
• “Hidden Legacy: Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Women’s Prison Association” Reforming Women. C19
  2020: Dissent, October 2020.
• “Recovery through Innovation: Reimagining Digital Scholarship on Catharine Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad”
  Recovery from the Margins: A Digital Roundtable. Modern Language Association, January 2020.
• “Transatlantic Departures: Mapping Catharine Sedgwick’s 1839-1840 Tour Abroad” Recovery and Alternatives to Print Publication. Society for the Study of American Women Writers, November 2018.
• “Does Money Matter?: Digital Humanities Outside Research Institutions” Promoting Digital Humanities. Society for the Study of American Women Writers, November 2018.
• “Liminality and the Grad-Student Life” Crossing Gendered Boundaries: Professional and Life Stages in Academia. Modern Language Association, January 2017.
• “She Said, He Said: Rhetoric, Sexual Assault, and the University” Co-Presented with Stacey Amo at the Modern Language Association, January 2016.
• “Neither Married Nor Single: Sedgwick’s Alternate Paths of Female Development” Presented at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, November 2015.
• “Eavesdropping on the City: Female Privacy and Narrative Form in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Urban Fiction” Presented at the American Literature Association Symposium, September 2015.
• “Leaving Home a Second Time: Narrative Voice and City Space in Catharine Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home” Presented at the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium, June 2014.
• “‘A person among people’: Working for Identity in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers” Presented at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, October 2012.
• “Fighting the ‘flippant idlers of fashionable life’: Prescriptive Education in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth” American Literature Association Conference, May 2012.
• “When People...have anything with a price, they ought to sell it’: Packinghouses, Prostitutes, and the Working Girl in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle” Presented at the Mardi Gras Conference, February 2012.
• “Regionalism and The Foreign Reader: Narrative Strategies in The Country of the Pointed Firs and The Awakening” Presented at the Mid-America American Studies Association Conference, March 2010.
• “At Home: Dual Models of Domesticity in Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie” Presented at the tenth annual Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium, May 2007.

• Faculty Research Scholarship Venture Capital Fund, Co-collaborator for the SWFL Community Feminist Reading Group, Florida Gulf Coast University, Spring 2019
• Professional Development Enhancement Award, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fall 2018
• Seidler Collaborative Fellowship, Florida Gulf Coast University, Summer 2018
• Digital Humanities Travel Award, Florida Gulf Coast University, Spring 2018
• Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award, Louisiana State University, 2017
• Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominee, Louisiana State University, 2016
• Spring/Summer Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Louisiana State University, 2016
• HASTAC Scholar Fellowship Recipient for a digital humanities project on Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, 2013-2016