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
Photography / Early through Classical Hollywood Cinema
Aesthetics of Industry and Production
Infrastructuralism
Eugenics
Narrative Theory

Current Courses

English 102W.10: Literature and Analytical Thinking -- Fictions of (Re)Production (Instructor)
FILM 125.01: Introduction to the Study of Film (Grader)

Current Positions

Research Assistant to Prof. Paul Young
Instructor, English Department
Grader, Film Studies Program
Co-Facilitator, Twentieth Century Literature and Culture Reading Group
Teaching and Professionalization Liaison, English Graduate Student Association
Graduate Consultant, Vanderbilt Writing Studio

Previous Positions

Vanderbilt:
Research Assistant to Prof. Dana Nelson (Summer 2009)
Senior Honors Thesis Consultant (Spring 2009)
Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association (2008-09)
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

Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Professional Honors

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:
English 102W.15 (Spring 2009): Literature and Analytical Thinking -- Family Matters: Dysfunctional Family Narratives
English 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)