Degrees

M.A. English, Stanford University (2006)
B.A. English and French, Magna Cum Laude, Highest Distinction in English, University of Illinois at Chicago (2005)

Research Area

American Modernism
Early through Classical Hollywood Cinema
Film Censorship
Eugenics, Contraception, Women's Reproductive Rights
Modernist Visual Cultures
Aesthetics of Industry and (Cultural) Production
Infrastructuralism
Narrative Theory / The Frankfurt School

Current Research

Dissertation: "Hollywood's Reproduction Code: Regulating Contraception and Abortion in American Cinema, 1915-1952"

Current Positions

English Department Dissertation Year Fellow
Research Assistant to Prof. Paul Young
Editor to Prof. Andrea Mirabile
FLiCX Discussion Leader (Faculty-Led interactive Cinematic eXplorations)
Senior Honors Thesis Consultant
Peer Mentor

Previous Positions

Vanderbilt:
Instructor, English Department and Film Studies Program
President, English Graduate Student Association (2010-2011)
Co-Founder and Co-Facilitator, Interrogating Modernism Reading Group (2009-2011)
Teaching and Professionalization Liaison, English Graduate Student Association (2009-2010)
Research Assistant to Prof. Dana Nelson (Summer 2009)
Senior Honors Thesis Consultant (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011))
Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association (2008-09)
Peer Mentor (2008-present)
Graduate Consultant, Vanderbilt Writing Studio (January 2008-August 2009)
First-Year Conference Coordinator (2007-08)
Academic Committee Representative (2007-08)
102W Sub-Committee Member (2007-08)
Tutor, Nashville Adult Literacy Council (2008)
Other:
Graduate Tutor, Hume Writing Center, Stanford
Staff Tutor, Writing Center, UIC

Professional Societies

American Association of University Women
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Professional Honors

Dissertation Year Fellowship, Department of English, Vanderbilt University (2011-2012)
Rose Alley Press Achievement Award (2010-2011)
Dissertation Enhancement Grant, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University (2010)
Summer Research Award, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University (2010)
Summer Research Award, Department of English, Vanderbilt University (2009)
University Fellowship, Vanderbilt (2007 - )
Phi Beta Kappa, Iota of Illinois, UIC (2005)
Undergraduate English Award for Critical Writing, UIC (2003, 2005)
Undergraduate English Award for Creative Writing, UIC (2005)
Robert and Corrinne Silver Scholarship, UIC (2003)

Miscellaneous

M.A. Thesis:
Fractured Vision: Moving Pictures and Modernist Gothic in Arnold Bennett's *Anna of the Five Towns*

Previous Courses Taught:
ENGL 104W.05 (Spring 2011): Prose Fiction Forms and Techniques--The American Modernist Novel: Time, Perception, Identity
ENGL 100W.10 (Fall 2010): Composition--Advertising Fictions: The Rhetoric of Aesthetics and Consumption
FILM 125.01 (Spring 2010): Introduction to the Study of Film
ENGL 102W.10 (Fall 2009): Literature and Analytical Thinking -- Fictions of (Re)Production
ENGL 102W.15 (Spring 2009): Literature and Analytical Thinking -- Family Matters: Dysfunctional Family Narratives
ENGL 102W.08 (Fall 2008): Literature and Analytical Thinking -- The Fun in Dysfunctional: Narrative, Temporality, and the Family

Other:
Second City Chicago Beginning Improv Program Alumna (2004); Illinois' Junior Miss First Runner-Up (2001)