Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Florida August 2024
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
Visual Rhetoric
Monster Studies
Comic Studies
Video Game Studies
Girlhood Studies
Children’s & YA Literature
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
2024
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)
ImageTexT
Dear Diary: Languages of the In-Betweens (Forthcoming)
Dissertation
University of Florida, Ph.D. English Literature August 2024
The Monstress Arrives: Fantastic Transformations in Comics and Manga from 2010-2020s
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 – Present
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
2020
MSU Comics Forum
“She, Who Shattered the World”: Facing the Monstrous-Feminine in Liu and Takeda’s Monstress
2021
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Conference
Dreaming of Crêpes and Kaiju: Monstrous -Cenes in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Popular Culture Association
Not A Dream, Not A Hoax: Persona 4’s Midnight Channel as Identity Play
Children's Literature Association Conference
Little Lost Things: Embodying Monstrous Childhood in Little Nightmares
2022
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Conference
Hip-Hop Questing: Locating Hip-Hop in the JRPG Final Fantasy VII Remake
Popular Culture Association
Song and Pizza: Invisible Disability and Monstrosity in Night in the Woods
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
