Curriculum Vitae
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Education
PhD, English, minor in Victorian Studies, expected May 2026
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Dissertation: “What to Do with News: Media and the Making of Anglo-American Nationalism, 1830–1870”
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​My project investigates the relationship between news remediation practices and nationalist storytelling in the mid-nineteenth century. With attention to abolition and news clipping, popular celebrity and news humbug, and the Civil War and news illustration, I argue that such practices, more than conventional politicking, cohered an imagined transnational community. The results of this study provide insight into today’s media echo chambers and subsequent national fragmentation.​
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Committee: Ivan Kreilkamp and Christoph Irmscher (co-chairs), Lara Kriegel, and Paul Gutjahr
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MA, English, 2022
Indiana University, Blomington, IN
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BA, English, magna cum laude and University Honors, 2020
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Teaching and Research Interests
News media, media history, post-1800 literature, transatlanticism, nationalism, cultural studies, contemporary nonfiction, interdisciplinary studies, editing and communications
Publications
Books
Editor, with Colby Townsend. Printing New Religion: Transatlantic Movements in the Nineteenth Century. University of Illinois Press (under contract; submitting November 2025).
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Journal Articles
“Nothing but a Humbug: P. T. Barnum, Charles Dickens, and the Construction of National Identities in a Living Archive.” Victorian Review, vol. 49, no. 2, 2023, pp. 279–300.
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In Progress
“Abolition’s Scissors: George Thompson and the Life of the Clipping in Transatlantic Activism.” American Periodicals (revise and resubmit).
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Web-Based
​“Transatlantic Studies: A Reading List.” JSTOR Daily, 29 April 2025, https://daily.jstor.org/transtlantic-studies-reading-list/.
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Grants and Awards
Competitive Research Fellowships
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American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, $2000 (2024–2025)
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Massachusetts Historical Society Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellow, $3000 (2024–2025)
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Curran Fellowship, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, $3000 (2023)
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Graduate Research Exchange Fellowship, IU and University of Manchester, UK, $3400 (2023)
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Juried Honors
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William Riley Parker Prize in British Literature, Department of English, Indiana University, $500 (2025)
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Susan Clements Memorial Summer Fellowship, Department of English, Indiana University, $2000 (2021–2024)
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Travel Awards
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Conference Travel Award, North American Victorian Studies Association (2025)
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College Arts & Humanities Graduate Travel Award, Indiana University (2024)
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Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Award, Indiana University (2024)
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Susan C. Thrasher Travel Award, Department of English, Indiana University (2024)
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Conference Travel Award, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2024)
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Conference Travel Award, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (2022, 2023)
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Selected Conference Presentations
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“Aftermaths of the Civil War in Transatlantic Visual Culture.” Panel organizer and speaker, North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference. Washington, DC, November 13–16, 2025.
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“‘A Spectacle of Industry in the Midst of Ruin’: Re-visioning the US Civil War in the Illustrated British Press.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals annual conference. Chicago, IL, July 10–12, 2025.
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“Paranormal Events and the New Religion of Activism in the Mid-century Press.” North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference. West Lafayette, IN, September 20–21, 2024.
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“Narrating Abolition: The Place of Fake News in Scissors-and-Paste Reform.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals annual conference. Stirling, Scotland, UK, June 13–15, 2024.
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“Telling the Truth in Fragments: The Transatlantic Editing of Nationalist Abolition Movements.” North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference. Bloomington, IN, November 9–11, 2023.
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“W. T. Stead’s Ordinary ‘Folks’ and the Paradox of the Progressive Anglosphere.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies annual conference. Knoxville, TN, April 13–16, 2023.
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“An Industrial Fairy Scene: Creating the Child Consumer in Great Exhibition Juvenilia.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies annual conference. Salt Lake City, UT, March 24–27, 2022.
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“Fusing the Commercial and Domestic: Victorians en Route to Jane Austen.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States annual conference. Reno, NV, October 15–17, 2021.
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“Lost and Found: Victorian Travelers and the Sensationalizing Domesticity of Jane Austen.” English Graduate Department 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. Bloomington, IN, April 16–17, 2021.
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Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record, Department of English, Indiana University​
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ENG-L204 Introduction to Nonfiction Prose: The Stuff of Memory (General education literature and intensive writing course; 1 section of 25 students; Fall 2025)
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ENG-W131 Reading, Writing, and Inquiry: Conflicts of Culture and Capitalism (First-year composition course; 6 sections of 23 students each; 2021–2023)
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Graduate Assistant, Department of English, Indiana University​
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ENG-L260 Introduction to Advanced Study of Literature: Island Stories, Professor Ivan Kreilkamp (Introductory literary criticism course; 1 section of 26 students; Fall 2024)
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Guest Lectures
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“Cutting and Pasting Viral Trends.” ENG-W171: The Taylor Swift Effect: Power, Influence, and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 5, 2025.
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“Andrea Levy’s Small Island and British Nationalism.” ENG-L260: Island Stories, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, November 21, 2024.
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“Multi-Modal Research from the 19th Century to Today.” RHET 105: Writing and Research, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, November 11, 2024.
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“Abolition and the Racial Politics of Truth-Telling.” Antrim Literature Project, Public Humanities Fall Lecture Series, Boston, MA, October 9, 2024.
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“Robinson Crusoe, Realism, and Virginia Woolf.” L260: Island Stories, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 8, 2024.
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Related Professional Experience
Editorial​
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Managing Editor, Victorian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2023–2025)
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Editor, Chen Zhu, Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2023–2025)
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Editor and Publisher, Carr Krueger, Administrative Assistant Vice President, Brigham Young University, Remote, Provo, UT (2020–2022)
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Research​
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Research Assistant, Susan Gubar, Professor emerita, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2023–present)
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Research Assistant, The Book Lab, Co-PIs Patricia Ingham and Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2022–2023)
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Research Assistant, Kevin Mintz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Department of Bioethics, Remote, Stanford, CA (2021–2022)
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Public Communications
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Impact Strategy Research Intern, Declarative. Salt Lake City, UT (May to August 2022)
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Intern, Annual Graduate Institute on the Constitution, James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation. Marymount University, VA (June 2020 and June 2021)
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Digital Development Intern, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Stratford-upon-Avon, UK (May to August 2019)
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Service
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Co-founder, English Degree of Tomorrow, https://www.englishdegreeoftomorrow.org (2025)
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Designed collaborative platform for students, faculty, and education industry experts to connect and reimagine the English postsecondary degree
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Organizer, Job Preparation Working Group, Department of English, Indiana University (2025)
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Organizer, Summer Fellows’ Writing Group, American Antiquarian Society (2024–present)
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Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Department of English, Indiana University
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President (2023–2024)
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Events Chair (2022–2023)
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Public Relations Representative (2021–2022)
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Conference Organizer, North American Victorian Studies Association (2023)