Areas of Interest

Current Projects and Publications

Academic Honors and Awards

Conference Presentations

• “Sounding the Self in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins” presented at “Metre Matters: New Approaches to Prosody, 1780-1914” University of Exeter, UK, July 3-5, 2008.
• “‘Because I could no stop’: Eternity and the Corpse in Dickinson’s Post-Mortem Lyric” presented at UCSB Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture Conference, May 29, 2008.
• “‘If Your Right Hand Offends You ...’: Anger and the Principle of Moral Regeneration in Mansfield Park” presented at the Dickens Universe Winter Conference, UC Davis, February 22-24, 2008.
• “‘Flinching at Nothing of the Conventional’: The Prosody of Texture in Aurora Leigh” presented at The North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, “Victorian Materialities,” Victoria, BC, October 10-13, 2007.

Service

• Diversity Working Group Member, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (September 2005-Present)
• Nineteenth Century Group Member, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (September 2005-Present)
• Conference Committee Member, Early Modern Center (EMC) Winter 2007 Conference, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (August 2006—February 2007)
• Committee Member, Irish Studies Colloquium 2006, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (September–November 2006)
• Panelist, Graduate Student Orientation, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (September 2006)

Research Experience

• Research Assistant for Early Modern Center's English Ballad Archive, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (June 2006-Present)
• Research Assistant for Translation Studies Research Focus Group, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (December 2005-Present)

Related Experience

• Editor, Translation, University of California, Santa Barbara (September 2006-Present)
• Editorial Assistant, The Annals of Iowa, Iowa State Historical Society (September 2004-June 2005)

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Associate, Writing 2, University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall 2007–Spring 2008)
  (supervisor: Chris Dean)
• Teaching Assistant, English 150: Irish Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara (Spring 2007)
  (Professor: Enda Duffy)
• Teaching Assistant, English 102: British Literature from 1789 to 1900, University of California, Santa Barbara (Winter 2007)
  (Professor: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook)
• Plenary Lecturer, English 102, British Literature from 1789 to 1900, University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2007. “‘Teaching the rustic moralist to die’: The Philosophy of Elegiac Poetry in Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’”
• Teaching Assistant, English 103B: British Literature from 1789 to 1900, University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall 2006)
  (Professor: Julie Carlson)
• Teaching Assistant, English 116A, Biblical Literature: The Old Testament, University of California, Santa Barbara (Winter 2006)
  (Professor: Robert Erickson)
• Plenary Lecturer, English 116A, Biblical Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2006. “The Book of Ruth”
• Plenary Lecturer, English 197, Upper-Division Seminar: The Poetics of Prophecy, Winter 2006. “Lyricism in Second Isaiah”