I completed my PhD in English at University of Colorado Boulder, on Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute lands, in Spring 2025. At CU Boulder, I studied American literature and the environmental humanities.
In my dissertation, “Living Knots: Ties to Matter, Kin, and Place and the Log Cabin in American Literature,” I use a material ecocritical lens to analyze the log cabin in nineteenth-century American literature, addressing human entanglements with the nonhuman world. As I excavate the log cabin’s complex histories of settlement, slavery, assimilation, and resistance, I reveal opportunities for repair, recovery, and resurgence to counter America’s darker and ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and white supremacy.
In the English department, I have taught environmental literature, American women’s literature, global women’s literature, the climate change novel, composition, and a graduate pedagogy seminar, and I served for two years as the department’s lead graduate teaching instructor. I hold graduate certificates in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Digital Humanities, and College Teaching. I received the 2024-2025 George F. Reynolds Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School.