Education
PhD – English: Fordham University, Bronx, NY (2016)
Dissertation: The Sexualization of Mental Illness in Postwar American Literature
MPhil – English: Fordham University, Bronx, NY (With Distinguished Honor) (2010)
MA – English: Fordham University, Bronx, NY (2008)
BA – Major: English, Minor: Art History: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (Cum Laude with Honor in English) (2005)
Conference Presentations
"Constructing the Female Psychosexual Radical: Anne Sexton," Women and Society Conference, Marist College, 2014.
“Staring at Sylvia: The Intersections of Disability Theory and Beauty Culture,” The Sylvia Plath Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2012.
“Reclaiming the Sexual Psychopath: Sadomasochism and the Postwar Male Crisis in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me,” Monsters and the Monstrous Conference, Oxford University, 2011.
“Being (Really?) Crazy in the ‘60s: Literary Constructions of Mental Illness and the Psychiatric Institution,” The American Popular Culture Association National Conference, 2010.
“Cyborg, Manifest(ed): Lady Gaga’s Sexual Grotesque,” The Graduate English Association Conference, Fordham University, 2010.
“Tracey Emin’s Masturbatory Postmodernism,” The Brooklyn Museum’s Feminist Art Symposium, 2009.
“‘The nudity of poverty’: Documentary Poetics and Photography in Leslie Scalapino’s ‘Crowd and not evening or light,’” The Graduate English Association Conference, Fordham University, 2008.
“‘He tells me how badly I photograph’: Plath, the Camera, and the Politics of Self-Representation,” The 75th Annual Sylvia Plath Symposium, Oxford University, 2007.
“‘Filling in the Blanks’: Translating Silence in Kathleen Fraser’s ‘Etruscan Pages,’” The Graduate Poetry Symposium, Princeton University, 2007.
Courses Taught
Monsters and Madness
Countercultures and Bohemians
Horror and the Gothic
Modern American Novel
Representations of Mental Illness
Sex and Madness in Modern American Literature
Literature and Rebellion in Modern America
Sex and Gender
Composition and Rhetoric II
Composition and Rhetoric