Education: 2005: M.A. in English, Vanderbilt University, “Tableaus of Enclosure: Female Communities Beyond the Hammam
in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters”. (Advisor: Bridget Orr)
2002: B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley
Employment: 2005- : Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Fellowships and Grants:
2004 – 2009: University Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2004
2004 – 2009: University Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2004
2007: College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant
Teaching Experience at Vanderbilt University:
English 102W – Introduction to Literature: Forms and Techniques, “The Stories We Tell: Forms and Modes of Narrative,” Spring 2007
English 118W – Literature and Cultural Analysis, , “Freak Show: Literary and Cultural Receptions of Disability,” Fall 2006
English 102W – Introduction to Literature: Forms and Techniques, “Freak Show: ‘Deformities’ and Disabilities in Literature,” Spring
2006
English 102W – Introduction to Literature: Forms and Techniques, “National Identity in American Literature,” Fall 2005
Teaching and Research Interests:
Victorian Literature, the Novel, Nineteenth-Century Science, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture
Selected Professional Presentations:
“Nature, Nurture and Female Criminality in Collins’s The Legacy of Cain.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, April 19 -21, 2007. Kansas City, MO.
“The Effect of Affect: Maternal Responsibility and Successful Capitalism in Daniel Deronda.” NTU English Literature Conference: Irresponsibility, September 28 – 30, 2006. Singapore.
“‘Let Us Proceed Without Any More Double-Talk’: Brando, Kazan, and the Influence of Method Acting on the Creation of Streetcar”. 37th Annual 20th Century Literature and Culture Conference, February 23 – 25, 2006. Louisville, KY.
“Tableaus of Enclosure: Female Communities Beyond the Hammam in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters”. 13th Annual Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, April 14 – 17, 2005. Lafayette, LA.
Related Professional Experience
2007: Graduate Student Representative for Vanderbilt University, Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz
2006: Mellon Seminar: “The Souls of Brutes and Stupid Things,”
2006: Assistant to Mark Wollaeger. Modernism, Media and Propaganda.
2005 - 2006: Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University. Assisted Jay Clayton in writing content and designing the NIH/Genetics and
Literature project website.
University Service and Activities:
2006 – 2007: Teaching Affiliate, Center For Teaching for Teaching Assistant Orientation Program
2005 – 2006: Coordinator, 19th-Century Interdisciplinary Work Study Group
2005: Department Representative, Graduate Student Council
2005: Presenter, “Tableaus of Enclosure: Female Communities of Letters in Lady Mary’s Turkish Embassy Letters”, Graduate
Student Research Day, April 4, 2005.
2004 – 2005: Recruitment and Orientation Coordinator, Department of English
Community Service:
2006: Nashville Humane Association (ongoing)
2005: Hurricane Katrina repairs in Washington Parish, Louisiana, with Vanderbilt University
2004 – 2006: Crisis Line, Rape and Sexual Abuse Center, Nashville
References:
Jay Clayton William R. Kenan Professor and Chair, Department of English, Vanderbilt University.
Carolyn Dever Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Vanderbilt University.
Mark Wollaeger Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
James Epstein Professor of History, Vanderbilt. University
