Curriculum Vitae
Education
2027 University of Minnesota, PhD Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
Dissertation: “Reading for Theories of Solidarity, Aesthetics, and the State in the Incarcerated Archive of Literature and Culture”
Advisor: Shaden M. Tageldin
2023 University of Minnesota, MA Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
2014 St. John’s College, MA Eastern Classics
2013 School of Visual Arts, MA Critical Theory and the Arts
MA Thesis: “Tragedy and the Origin of Aesthetic Autonomy”
Advisor: Robert Hullot-Kentor
2012 St. John’s College, MA Liberal Arts
2010 York College of Pennsylvania, BA with Honors, Political Science with Literary Studies minor
Languages
English (native speaker), German (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate), Classical Chinese (reading)
Professional Activities
Publications
"A Revolting Archive: Incarcerated Trans Resistance and the Destruction of Neoliberal Realism." College Literature, vol. 52 no. 4, 2025, p. 551-577. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2025.a971773. With Will Anderson.
“A Carceral State: Incarceration’s Reach in Ecosystems within and beyond the Prison.” With Will Anderson. In Entangled and Empowered. 2025, Vernon Press.
“Art and the Possibility of Metaphysics: Theodor Adorno on Tragedy as the Origin of Aesthetic Autonomy.” Evental Aesthetics 2, no. 3 (2013): 40-52.
“Desire Under the Plane Tree: The Fallacy of the Non-Lover and the Embodiment of Eros in Plato’s Phaedrus.” American Society for Aesthetics Graduate Journal 5, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2013): http://asage.org/index.php/ASAGE/article/view/118/63.
“Adorno, Auerbach, and Benjamin on Constitutive Subjectivity and the Redemption of History.” Anamesa 11, no. 1 (June 2013): 34-43.
“Sanctimoniousness, Coquetry, and Quarantine: An Homage to Georges Bataille’s ‘Sanctity, Eroticism, and Solitude.’” Emerging Modernisms, May 24, 2013. http://emergingmodernisms.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/guest-post-battailles-sanctimoniousness-coquetry-and-quarantine/.
Conferences
2025
“The Prison as Crime Scene and the Force of Narrating Another’s Trauma in Prison Literature.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 21, 2025.
"Reading Like Fanon: Interpellations of the Literary in the Incarcerated Tradition.” American Comparative Literature Association, online conference. May 29-June 1, 2025.
2024
“The Eco-Erotic Speculative in the Blazing World of Margaret Cavendish.” Philophantast Speculative Philosophy Conference. Glasgow, June 6, 2024.
“Postmodern and Anti-Colonial: Matigari and the Ethics of Nonrecognition.” African Literature Association Annual Conference. Louisville, KY. May 23-25, 2024.
“The Worlding of Worms: A Posthuman Reading of Knowledge Production and Empire in The Blazing World of Margaret Cavendish.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 25, 2024.
2023
“‘A Generous Invitation to Everyone’: Rethinking the Politics of Representation and Access in Aristophanes’ Assembly-Women.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM.
2022
“Tragedy, Nostalgia, and Nationalism in the Modern Novel: A Comparative Study.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM.
2021
“Commodifying the Climb: The Ethics of Online Content Production and the Increasing Politization of the Professional Rock Climber.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM.
2014
“Film, Distraction, and Walter Benjamin’s ‘Dialectical Image.’” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM.
2013
“Myth and Dialectic in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.” Annual Graduate Liberal Studies Conference for Students and Alumni from East Coast Universities. Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
“Adorno, Auerbach, and Benjamin on Constitutive Subjectivity and the Redemption of History.” (Dis)Realities Graduate English Conference. University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
“The Place of Aesthetics: On Navigating the Theoretical Terrain from Plato to Foucault.” Critical Theory Graduate Symposium. School of Visual Arts, New York City, NY.
2012
“The Natural Enemy of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan.” Annual Graduate Liberal Studies Conference for Students and Alumni from East Coast Universities. Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
2011
“Pestering the Owl of Minerva: What is the Appropriate Method for Pursuing Knowledge of the Divine?” Annual Graduate Liberal Studies Conference for Students and Alumni from East Coast Universities. Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Association Memberships
Radical Philosophy Association
FEMBOT Collective
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Association for Political Theory
American Association of University Professors
African Literature Association
Comparative Literature Association
Modern Language Association
Editorships and Manuscript Review
Past and Present, editor, 2008
American Society of Aesthetics Graduate Journal, reviewer
Edge Graduate Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies, reviewer
Early Writings Graduate Journal, editor, 2014
Awards and Fellowships
Faculty Research Grant, Fall 2025, Minneapolis College
“Reckoning and Repair” Faculty Seminar/research trip to South Africa, Summer 2025, University of St. Thomas
Graduate Research Partnering Program Fellowship, The Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Summer 2025, University of Minnesota
Hella Mears Graduate Fellowship, Summer 2024, University of Minnesota
Online Educational Materials Authoring Grant, Summer 2024, Metropolitan State University
Professional Development Grant, Spring 2024, Metropolitan State University
Course Development Grant, Fall 2023, Metropolitan State University
CSCL Graduate Summer Fellowship, Summer 2023, University of Minnesota
Course Development Grant, Summer 2023, Metropolitan State University
Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellowship, Summer 2023, University of Minnesota
Course Improvement Grant, Spring 2023, Metropolitan State University
Course Development Grant, Fall 2022, Metropolitan State University
CSCL Graduate Summer Fellowship, Summer 2022, University of Minnesota
CSCL Graduate Summer Fellowship, Summer 2021, University of Minnesota
American Association of University Professors Conference Travel Grant, Spring 2015
Tecolote Fellow, 2014-2016, St. John’s College
Best Seminar Paper Award Winner 2013-2014 (Eastern Classics), St. John’s College
“Conditionality, Human Freedom, and Universal Peace in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and the Cakkavatti-Sīhanāda Sutta”
Best Preceptorial Paper Award Winner 2013-2014 (Eastern Classics) St. John’s College
“Things beyond Measure: On the Aesthetic Import of ‘All-Inclusive Study’ in the Writings of Zen Master Dōgen”
Research Grant, Summer 2012, Department of Critical Theory and the Arts, School of Visual Arts (with the Goethe Institute and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
Teaching Experience
2025 Adjunct Faculty, English Department, Augsburg University
2024-present Adjunct Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies, Minneapolis College
2024-present Adjunct Faculty, English, University of St. Thomas
2023-2025 Community Faculty, Writing, Language, and Literature, Metropolitan State University
2022-2023 Community Faculty, TREC/College in Prison Program, Metropolitan State University
2020-2021 Adjunct Professor, Political Science and Economics, Birmingham-Southern College
2020-present Teaching Assistant/Graduate Instructor, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
2019-2021 Adjunct Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Santa Fe Community College
2018-present Adjunct Professor, College of Online and Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire University
2014-2016 Adjunct Professor, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Language and Letters, Northern New Mexico College
2014-2016 Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Reading, and Speech, Santa Fe Community College
2014-2016 GED Instructor, YouthBuild Program, Santa Fe Community College
2012-2013 Teaching Assistant, Department of Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts
2009-2010 Teaching Assistant, Department of History and Political Science, York College of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
Augsburg University
English 111: Effective Writing II
University of St. Thomas
English 121: Critical Thinking and Writing; English 203: Frankenstein’s Legacy
Minneapolis College
WGSS 1115: The Politics of Sex; WGSS 2213: Engaging Justice: Women’s and LGBTQ Social Movements; WGSS 2211: Resisting Gender Violence; WGSS 2240: Captive Bodies: Gender and Mass Incarceration
Metropolitan State University
HUM 380: Environmental Humanities (Topic: Solidarity, Ecology, and Science/Fiction), IDS 390: Monsters and Modernity, WRIT 231: Writing II, HUM 390 Special Topics: Gaming and Community, HUM 317: Global Modernisms, HUM 318: Global Postmodernism; HUM 308: Global Humanities: Ancient Cultures
Graduate: HUM 6601: Folklore
University of Minnesota:
CSCL 1501W: Reading History (Topic: History and the Family), CSCL 1401W: Reading Literature (Topic: Feminist Science Fiction); CSCL 3221: On Television; CSCL 3350: Culture and Sexuality; CSCL 2425W: Critical Theory and Social Change
Courses supported:
CSCL/SCMC 1201W: Cinema (1 section, online synchronous); CSCL 1101W: Literature (3 sections, 3 semesters, one online synchronous, two in-person); CSCL 3220W: Screen Cultures (2 sections, in-person); CSCL 1001W: Introduction to Cultural Studies (2 sections, 2 semesters, one in-person, one hybrid); CSCL 3352W: Queer Aesthetics and Critique (1 section, 1 semester, in-person), 3221: On Television (2 sections, online asynchronous); CSCL 2425W: Critical Theory and Social Change (1 section, one semester)
Birmingham-Southern College:
PS 202: Introduction to Political Theory
Southern New Hampshire University
HUM 100: Perspectives in the Humanities, HUM 200: Applied Humanities, HUM 102: Self, Society, Humanities, HUM 260: Expression in Cultural Contexts, HUM 215: Culture and Creativity
Santa Fe Community College:
Read101L: Critical Reading Across the Disciplines, ENG 111: Composition and Rhetoric, ENG 109: Intro to Composition, Read100L: Reading Fluency and Vocabulary Development, FYSS 116: Strategies for Success, ENG 112: Composition and Literature, HUM 200: Media and Gender
Northern New Mexico College:
ENG 111: Composition and Rhetoric, ENG 109: Intro to Composition, ENG 112: Composition and Literature, HSS 320: Genesis of Math and Science, HSS 311: Readings in the Social Sciences, HUM 200: Comparative Religion, HSS 421: Themes in the Humanities: History, Literature, Art, And Philosophy
School of Visual Arts:
HPD 1050: Modern Philosophy I & II
Service
Coordinator and Faculty, TREC Summer Bridge Writing Program, Summer 2023
Cross-Disciplinary Faculty Learning Community on Equity, Metropolitan State University, Summer 2023
Advisor, TREC Farms, Student Group at Metropolitan State University, 2022-present
Community Faculty Representative, TREC Advisory Committee, Metropolitan State University, 2022-present
Graduate Student Transportation Advocacy Working Group, University of Minnesota, 2022
Anti-Racism Graduate Student Committee, University of Minnesota, 2020-2021
Curriculum Committee for ‘Dialogue’ courses, Northern New Mexico College, 2015-2016
“Careers in the Humanities” panel member, Northern New Mexico College, 2016
Parliamentarian, Santa Fe Community College Chapter of the AAUP, 2014-2016
Member, Workload Policy Committee, Santa Fe Community College, 2014-2015
Public Education
Invited Speaker, Restorative Justice Graduation, Faribault Correctional Facility, October 2023
Convenor, Dialectics and social theory for activists study group, Spring 2022-Fall 2023
“Heading for Extinction” Line 3/Extinction Rebellion talks on climate disaster, winter 2020-2021, Zoom
Co-chair, panel on state violence, Birmingham-Southern College, May 2021
Invited guest, housing rights and Rent Strike! Missoula, May 2020, KFGM Voice of the People
Host and moderator, “Shakespeare’s Coriolanus for Today”, Santa Fe Community College, May 2015
Certifications
Southern New Hampshire University: Accessibility Ambassador
University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovation: Teaching with Access and Inclusion
Writing Across the Curriculum, University of St. Thomas
Volunteer Work
Women’s Prison Book Project, Minneapolis, MN, 2023-current
TREC Study Hall Mentor, 2022-2023
Aliveness Project Food Shelf, 2020-current