Research Interests
- Twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature
- Feminist and queer theory
- Pedagogy, popular culture, and visual media studies
- Rhetoric and writing
Research Areas
- Film Studies
Educational Background
- BA, Texas A&M University, English and Political Science, 2016-2022
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2012-2016
Awards & Honors
- Summer Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, 2022
- Distinguished Graduate Student Award: Excellence in Teaching, Association of Former Students, 2021
- Fasken Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2021
- Glasscock Center for Humanities Graduate Research Fellowship, 2020
Selected Publications
- “‘If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?’: Care and Neoliberalism on Queer Eye, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Pose.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 799-812, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13153
- “‘Your birth is my birth, your death is my death, G’: Re-envisioning Consent in I May Destroy You.” MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice, edited by Vanita Reddy and Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, New York University Press. Forthcoming 2024