I am a freelance filmmaker working with Freya Films in Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany. Since March 2021, my practice has focused on directing, producing, and screenwriting, with an emphasis on narrative filmmaking. My current project, the short film “A Lonely Place,” is in post-production.

Education                                                                                                                                          

2021	University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D. English Literature
2016	University of California, Los Angeles: MA English Literature
2012	University of Chicago: MA Humanities
2008	College of the Holy Cross: BA English

Dissertation                                                               

2021                             Persistent Futures of Bermudas Past: Genres of Geography and Race in Early America

Chair: Prof. Marissa K. López. Committee Members: Prof. Carrie Hyde, Prof. Christopher Looby, and Prof. Richard Yarborough.

John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies/ FU Berlin - Lecturer

2026 (Summer)              What was America? 

UCLA English Department – Lecturer

2022 (Spring)                 English 135: Literature of the Americas, “What was America?”

2022 (Winter)                 English 183A: “An Early American Disaster”

2022 (Winter)                 English 109: “Writing Place, Making Race”

2021 (Fall)                     English 135: Literature of the Americas, “What was America?”

2021 (Fall)                     English 190H: Honors Thesis Colloquium 2021 (Summer)     English 20W: Introduction to Creative Writing

UCLA English Department – Graduate Instructor

2018 (Spring)                 English 4W: Critical Reading and Writing, “Recuperation and Recovery” (Sole Instructor) 2018 (Winter) English 10C: Literatures in English, 1850 to the Present (TA for Prof. Michael North) 2017 (Fall)          English 4W: Critical Reading and Writing, “Life After Loss” (Sole Instructor)

2016 (Spring)                 Chicana/Chicano Literature Since el Movimiento, 1970s to the Present (TA for Prof. Rafael Pérez-Torres)

2016 (Winter)                 Reading Citizenship (TA for Prof. Carrie Hyde) 2015 (Fall)            The American Novel (TA for Prof. Chris Mott)

UCLA Academic Advancement Program – Lecturer

2018 (Summer)              English Composition 3: Composition, Rhetoric, and Language (Sole Instructor) 2017 (Summer)      English Composition 3: Composition, Rhetoric, and Language (Sole Instructor)

 

Harold Washington College - Lecturer (Chicago, IL)

2014 (Spring)                 English Composition 101/197 (Lecturer) 2014 (Spring)  English Composition 102 (Lecturer)

2013 (Fall)                     English Composition 102 (Lecturer)

2013 (Fall)                     English Composition 101 (Lecturer, Two courses) 2013 (Summer) English Composition 101 (Lecturer)

2013 (Summer)              English Composition 100 (Lecturer)

2013 (Spring)                 English Composition 102 (Lecturer, Three Courses) 2012 (Fall)        English Composition 102 (Lecturer)

2012 (Fall)                     English Composition 98 (Lecturer, Two Courses)

Fellowships and Awards   

                                                          

2020-2021	Graduate Division Competitive Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
2020	Short-Term Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
2019-2021	Friends of the MCEAS Residential Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
2019	Grace M. Hunt Archival Research Fellowship
2019	Travel Award, University of California Humanities Research Institute
2019	English Department Travel Award, UCLA
2018	Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society
2018-2019	English Department Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA
2017	English Department Travel Award, UCLA
2017	Isaiah Thomas Stipend, American Antiquarian Society
2016	English Department Travel Award, UCLA
2016-2017	Graduate Research Mentorship with Prof. Marissa K. López, UCLA
2016	Graduate Summer Research Mentorship with Prof. Christopher Looby, UCLA
2015	Graduate Summer Research Mentorship with Prof. Richard Yarborough, UCLA
2014-2015	University Fellowship, UCLA
2014-2015	Zyda/Shapiro Fund for English Fellowship

Conferences and Presentations                                                          

2021                             “Labor Equity and New Forms of Digital Scholarship in Early American Studies.” The Americas Online: Thinking Digitally about Early America. McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. (November)

2021                             “Terrapolitics, Transit, Collectivity: Barkskins and the Climate Colonial Epic.” EmergencE/Y, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference. Virtual. (July)

2021                             “A Conspiracy of Silence in Bermuda and Virginia.” “Violent Infrastructures/Violent Epistemes”

panel at Society of Early Americanists Twelfth Biennial Conference. Virtual. (March)

2019                             “A New Future Imaginable: Pauline Hopkins and the Bermudian Roots of Twentieth-Century Ambivalence.” 20/21. University of California, Los Angeles. (May)

2019                             “The Bermudian Centers of New England Settlerism.” Society of Early Americanists Eleventh Biennial Conference. University of Oregon. (March)

2019                             “Crèvecoeur’s Bermudian Crisis.” Translating America/America Translated. University of California, Santa Cruz. (February)

2019                             “Bermuda’s Persistent Futures” Americanist Research Colloquium. University of California, Los Angeles. (January)

2018                             “Bermuda’s Persistent Futures.” Eighteenth Century/Romantics Reading Group. University of California, Los Angeles. (May)

2017                             “Crèvecoeur’s Early American Circuit.” Lenses and Contacts: Framing Early America. McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. (October)

2017                             “The Many Bermudas of Early America.” Friends of English Southland Conference: Recursions. University of California, Los Angeles. (June)

2016                             “Sailing at the Limits of Progress: Bermuda and the Transnational Politics of History and Mobility.” Untold Futures Conference. University of Chicago. (November)

2016                             “George Barnwell’s Long, Brief Life.” Eighteenth Century/Romantics Reading Group. University of California, Los Angeles. (October)

Invited Talks                                            

2021                             “Persistent Futures of Bermudas Past.” American Antiquarian Society. (August)

2021                             “Namontack When He Was (Not) Here.” McNeil Center for Early American Studies,

University of Pennsylvania. (March)

2019                             “Berkeley and Crèvecoeur’s Bermudian Centuries That Were Not.” English Department Spring Athenaeum. University of California, Los Angeles. (May)

2018                             “The Genres of Geography and Race in Early America.” Massachusetts Historical Society.

(November)

2016                             “The Materials of Citizenship in the California Archives.” Invited lecture for undergraduate course, “Reading Citizenship,” taught by Carrie Hyde. (February)

2022            “Ecologies of Empire: Annie Proulx’s Climate Colonial Realism.” w/ Shouhei Tanaka. ISLE. 31.2 (Winter 2023).

2020             “Bermuda’s Persistent Futures.” American Literary History. 32.1 (Spring 2020).

2017             “George Barnwell’s Long, Brief Life.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 57.3 (Summer 2017).