About
(They/Them.)- PhD in English, specializing in 20/21C American Gothic and Horror Media. (Americanist, Southernist, & Gothicist through the lens of Queer Studies.)
- Member of Phi Kappa Phi, inducted Spring 2025.
- Genre consultant and researcher for various project types.
- Queer, Neuroatypical, based in the Southern US.- Previous: Student Resources and Services Manager with LSU Communication Across the Curriculum
- Specialized in science writing, pre-Health major communication, and transference of skills through career transitions.
- Extensive experience in student project advising and professional mentorship.- Previous: University Writing Program Assistant Director at Louisiana State University
- Guest lecture: Creating Compelling Special Topics Courses (ENGL 7915, Graduate Pedagogy Seminar) - LSU, Fall 2023
- Served as liaison between graduate students, instructors, and faculty in the coordination and maintenance of department and university standards for composition courses.
Writing and Teaching
- Dissertation: Obscured to the Camera: Reading Absolute Queerness in Found Footage Cinema, passed and completed March 2026.
- Worked and wrote widely on Queerness, gender, digital horror, vampirism, and the Southern Gothic.
- Previously presented research at the International Gothic Association, the LSU Mardi Gras Conference, and the inaugural conference for the Society of the Study of the American Gothic.Classes designed and taught include:
- This Haunted South: Southern Gothic Over Time (ENGL 2123, Literature) - LSU, Fall 2022
- Haunting and Writing: The Rhetoric of Ghosts (ENGL 2000 Comp/Rhet Special Topic) - LSU, Spring 2022 (Online Synchronous)
- Vampires in America/The American Vampire (ENGL 2123, Literature) - LSU, Spring 2021 (Online Synchronous)
- Intermediate Composition and Rhetoric (ENGL 2000) - LSU, Spring 2020 (Online Synchronous)
- Intro to Composition and Rhetoric (ENGL 1001) - LSU, Fall 2019, Fall 2020 (Online Synchronous), Fall 2021 (Online Synchronous)
- TA, Introduction to Shakespeare’s Plays (ENGL 2148) - LSU, Spring 2018
- TA, Shakespeare’s Top 40 (ENGL 2148) - LSU, Fall 2018