Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Florida May 2025

M.A., Applied Philosophy and Ethics Texas State University May 2019

M.A., Literature, Texas State University August 2017

B.A., English, Minor in Asian Studies, University of Texas May 2015

Research Interests

  • Children’s & YA Literature

  • Girlhood Studies

  • Visual Rhetoric

  • Monster Studies

  • Comic Studies

  • Video Game Studies

Publications

2020

Women Write About Comics (WWAC)

Once Upon a Wizard’s Romance: A Review of Nagabe’s The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms

2025

Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture

This Chapter Was Not Supposed to Exist: Chimeric Chaos in It’s Lonely At the Center of the Earth (Forthcoming)

Dissertation

University of Florida, Ph.D. English Literature         August 2024

The Monstress Arrives: Fantastic Transformations in Comics and Manga from 2010-2020s

Awards & Grants

2024

University Teaching Award 2023-2024, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Departmental Teaching Award 2023-2024, University of Florida, Department of English, Gainesville, FL

2022

$5,000 Rothman Endowment, University of Florida’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


2019

Outstanding Graduate Student, Philosophy Department, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Master’s Thesis

Texas State University, M.A. English Literature         July 2017

The Better to See You with: Revealing a Hero's

Monsterhood Through Villains

Work Experience

Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas September 2016 - May 2019

Graduate Instructional Assistant for the English and Philosophy Departments

University of Florida, Gainesville Florida       August 2019 – May 2020

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the University Writing Program (UWP)

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida September 2019 – August 2020

ImageText Style Editor

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida August 2020 – August 2021

ImageText Assistant Book Reviews Editor

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida   August 2021 – August 2022

ImageText Book Reviews Editor

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida August 2022 – August 2024

ImageTexT Co-Managing Editor

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida               August 2020 – Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the English Department (LIT2000, ENG1131, ENC1145, LIT4333, ENL2012)

2019

Anime Expo Academic Symposium

“This is a Game I Made”: Ludonarrative Dissonance in Incidental Isekai or The Genre that Refuses Refusal

2021

Children's Literature Association Conference

Little Lost Things: Embodying Monstrous Childhood in Little Nightmares

2023

Comic Arts Conference, Wondercon          

The Goddess Behind Our Tiny Screens: Thinking about How Webcomics Craft Intimacy with Lore Olympus

Popular Culture Association  

Hold A to Hold Hands: Horror and Comfort in Yomawari & Little Nightmares

2024

Anime Expo Academic Symposium

Growing Pains: Demon Slayer’s Memorial to the Past

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

Magical Girl Mayhem: The Power of Costume in Witch Hat Atelier

Popular Culture Association

The Sound of Love: Romance and Deafness in A Silent Voice and A Sign of Affection

Selected Conferences