Employment

University of Pennsylvania

• Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, 2022–present
• Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Race, Science, & Society, 2023–present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Visiting Scholar (Diversity Predoctoral Fellow), Women’s and Gender Studies Program, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2021–2022

Datadog

• Software Engineer (web infrastructure monitoring, performance, and analytics), 2013–2015

Education

• Ph.D. in English, Yale University, 2022
• M.St. in English and American Studies, University of Oxford, 2012
• A.B. in English and Creative Writing, Princeton University, 2011

Publications

Completed

In Progress

• Minor Theories of Everything: On Popular Science and Contemporary Fiction (book manuscript)
• “Inventing Rape Ecology: Octavia E. Butler and the Sociobiology of Sexual Violence” (invited to revise and resubmit at PMLA)
• “Nothing but Mammals: Feminism, Pornography, and Sociobiology” (article manuscript)
• “Elegiac Macrofauna: Mourning Large Animals in North America” (article manuscript)
• “Escape Velocity: Black Scientists and Life Writing in Outer Space” (article draft)
• “Why Not Both?” review of Rebecca B. Clark, American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature (Stanford University Press, 2022) (book review for Novel: A Forum on Fiction)

Editorial

• Co-Editor, “2024 Post45 Prize Essays,” special issue of Post45 forthcoming in late 2024/early 2025

Teaching

Awards and Honors

Fellowships and Grants

• First Book Institute Fellowship (FBI 12), Center for American Literary Studies, Penn State, June 2024.
• Open Access Award, Open Library of Humanities (grant supporting the inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars), 2023
• Mellon Seminar Research Fellowship, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 2023–2024
• Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity, University of Pennsylvania, 2022–2025
• Society of Fellows (declined), University of Southern California, 2022–2024
• Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), 2021–2022
• Mellon Summer Writing-in-Residence Dissertation Working Group, Yale GSAS, 2019
• Research Grant, Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (FLAGS), Yale LGBT Studies Program, 2018 and 2019
• Research Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Summer 2018

Awards

• L.S. Dembo Prize for best essay published in Contemporary Literature, 2020
• Departmental Prize for Best Essay Accepted for Publication, Yale English, 2020
• Departmental Prize for Excellence in Coursework, Yale English (best graduate student essay), 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 2011

Technologies, Tools, and Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, Javascript, PHP, Go, Java, Ruby
• Full Stack Web Development: HTML/CSS, React, D3, Django, Pyramid, Rails, NextJS, WordPress, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure
• Software Engineering and Collaboration: version control, code review, and collaboration (git/GitHub); pair programming, test-driven development
• Other: project management, DevOps, server monitoring and management, technical support

Professional Experience and Service

Editorial

• Post45 (open-access, peer-reviewed journal)
  • Co-Editor, 2023–present
  • Prize Committee, Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes, 2023–2024
  • Managing Editor, 2020–2023
  • Associate Editor and Web Developer, 2018–2019
• Peer Reviewer, Twentieth Century Literature, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Organizing and Convening

• “Rethinking Animal Comparison,” working group, MLA Convention, with Samantha Pergadia, January 2024
• “Like Rape: Coercion, Comparison and Sexual Harm” roundtable, ASAP/10, with Samantha Pergadia, October 2018
• Public Arts and Humanities Writing Workshop, ASAP/10, with Kyle Frisina, October 2018
• Third Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium, Yale English, with Andrew Lanham, March 2018
• Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Yale English, with Sam Huber, 2016–2018

Service and Leadership

• Post45 (organization)
  • Technology and Open Access Officer (elected), 2023–present
  • Board Member (elected), 2022–present
  • Graduate Steering Committee (elected), 2018–2020
• Volunteer, Chat with an Editor, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), MLA 2024
• Member, Yale English Anti-Racist Pedagogy Working Group, 2020–2022
• Research Assistant, Amy Hungerford, 2017–2020

Additional Training

• Advanced Oral History Institute, Oral History Center, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library (online), August 2023
• Our SHARED Future: Science, Humanities, Arts, Research Ethics, and Deliberation, Jason Robert and Erica O’Neil, NEH Summer Institute, ASU Center for Biology and Society, June-July 2023
• Oral History Training Institute, David J. Caruso, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA (online), May 2023
• Literary Biography: Archives and Life Stories, Karin Roffman, Beinecke Library Master Class, Yale University, May 2019
• Challenges of Media Anthropology, Lorenz Engell and Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies, IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, June 2017
• Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements, Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada, June 2016
• Computer Science and Software Engineering Coursework: Introductory Computer Science (Princeton), Algorithms and Data Structures (Coursera, Princeton), Algorithms: Design and Analysis (Coursera, Stanford), Programming Languages (Coursera, University of Washington), Introductory Data Science (Coursera, University of Washington), Computer Networks (Coursera, University of Washington), Web Development (Udacity), Software as a Service (EdX, UC Berkeley), 2011-2013

References

Available on Request