Curriculum Vitae

Papers Presented

• “Feeling Thoreau’s Radicle Empiricism,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 4–7, 2024.

• “Thoreau’s Sudelbücher: His Journal as ‘Waste-Book’,” British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Bristol, UK, December 1–2, 2023.

• “Journalistic Ecology: ‘Radicle Empiricism’ in Thoreau’s Journal Manuscript,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Portland, OR, July 9–12, 2023.

• “Du Bois in Berlin, Du Bois in Atlanta: The Affect of Exile in The Souls of Black Folk,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 5–8, 2023.

• “‘Two Stories Tangled Together’: The Double Brain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins,” International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, Elmira, NY, August 4–6, 2022.

• “‘Can you render my Pencil?’: Dickinson's Aphoristic Prose and Affective Experience,” Emily Dickinson International Society, Seville, Spain, July 12–14, 2022.

• “Aphoristic Emerson and the German Aphorismus,” Thoreau Annual Gathering, Concord, MA, July 6–10, 2022.

• “‘A Penumbra of Vagueness’: W. E. B. Du Bois's Aphoristic Reconstructions in The Souls of Black Folk,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Coral Gables, FL, March 31–April 2, 2022.

• “Thoreau’s Arboreal Encounters: A Transatlantic Re-Vision,” British Association for American Studies, virtual due to COVID-19, April 7–11, 2021.

• “Thoreau’s Radicle Empiricism: Arboreal Encounters and the Posthuman Forest,” European Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, Bergen, Norway, March 4–5, 2021.

• “Thinking Like a Tree: Human Cognition and Speculative Forest Thinking,” European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, Granada, Spain, 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19).

• “‘These Brainless, Stationary Trunks Are Protecting Each Other’: Speculative Forest Thinking in the Anthropocene,” European Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, Katowice, Poland, June 17–20, 2020.

• “‘Experience Is Forever in Motion’: The Divided Brain and Experimental Thinking,” Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, Irvine, CA, November 7–9, 2019.

• ​“Crossing the Border between Reason and Intoxication: William James on Nitrous Oxide,” Crossing the Borders of Creation and Critique Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 1, 2019.

• “Literature as ‘Out of Mind’ Experience,” Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, Toronto, Canada, November 15–18, 2018.

• “‘Creatures of Habit’: The Role of Habits in Short Story Character Creation,” American Literature Association Symposium, Savannah, GA, October 20–22, 2016.

• “‘A Collective Murmur Goes Up from Us’: Vicarious Trauma as Motivation in The Handmaid's Tale,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 20–24, 2015.

• “William James Visits Roderick Usher: Literature as Translation of American Psychology,” Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Wheaton, IL, March 20–21, 2014.

• “‘Give Me My Leg!’: The Point of Tension in O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People,’” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 21–23, 2013.

• “‘The World Will Burn Green’: Survival of Morality in Grendel,” Michigan College English Association, Grand Rapids, MI, October 26, 2012.

Washington University in St. Louis, Department of English

• ​Writing 1: Technology & Selfhood (Fall 2020)

• Morality and Markets (TA for Abram Van Engen and Peter Baumgarden, Spring 2020)

• Making it New: Emerson and the American Renaissance, 1836-1860 (TA for Robert Milder, Fall 2019)

St. Louis Community College, Department of English

• College Composition I (Fall 2019)

• College Composition II (Spring 2020, Fall 2019)

Jackson College, Prison Education Initiative (all courses taught in state prisons)

• Writing Experience I (Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Fall 2015)

• Cultural Connections (Summer 2017, Winter 2017, Fall 2016)

• Poetry and Drama (Winter 2017, Winter 2016)

• Technical & Business Communication (Summer 2017)

• World Literature (Summer 2017)

Jackson College, Department of Liberal Arts

• Introduction to College Writing (Fall 2016, Winter 2016)

• Writing Experience I (Fall 2016, Winter 2016)

• Writing Experience II (Summer 2017, Winter 2016, Fall 2015)

• Cultural Connections (Winter 2017)

Davenport University, Department of English & Communications

• Composition (Fall 2016, Fall 2015)

• Advanced Composition (Winter 2017, Fall 2016, Winter 2016, Fall 2015)

• Professional Writing (Fall 2016, Summer 2016)

Spring Arbor University, Department of English

• College Writing (Fall 2016)