EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), June 2025 (expected)
Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy: Writing in the Disciplines Emphasis, UCLA, 2022
M.St., English Language and Literature (1700-1830), University of Oxford, 2016
B.A., English and Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Columbia University, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Disability’s Abstraction in Tristram Shandy and Persuasion.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58.2 (2025): 169-188.
With Rachel C. Lee and Abraham Encinas, “‘Settler Maintenance’ and Migrant Domestic Worker Ecologies of Care.” Care in the Environmental Humanities, special issue of Humanities 13.6 (2024): 164.
“‘My Case,’ Her Cure: William Hay’s Permissible Gender Fluidity and Mrs. Stephens’s Controversy.” Eighteenth-Century Life 46.2 (2022): 1-29.
Reviews:
Review of Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Health Communism (New York: Verso Books, 2022). Critical Inquiry 50.3 (2024): 583-584.
Review of D. Christopher Gabbard and Susannah B. Mintz, eds., A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). Eighteenth-Century Studies 57.3 (2024): 397-399.
Selected Public Writing:
“Maria Edgeworth’s Good Doctor.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. February 24, 2020.
“Byron’s Pharmacopoeia.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. May 18, 2019.
“Wordsworth and ‘The Companionable Leech.’” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. February 9, 2019.
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Lore Metzger Prize for best student paper, International Conference on Romanticism, 2024
Graduate Student Travel Award, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2024
James L. Clifford Prize Honorable Mention, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Division of Graduate Education, UCLA, 2022-23
Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA, 2022-23
Graduate Student Research Essay Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2022
Lore Metzger Prize for best student paper, International Conference on Romanticism, 2021
Grace M. Hunt Award for Archival Research, UCLA, 2021
English Department Dissertation Research Fellowship, UCLA, 2021-22
Clark Dissertation Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2020-21
First Prize, Helene W. Koon Memorial Award, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2020
Graduate Research Mentorship, Division of Graduate Education, UCLA, 2019-20
Predoctoral Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2019
Mellon-EPIC (Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms) Fellowship: Inclusive Classrooms II, Humanities Division, UCLA, 2019
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Division of Graduate Education, UCLA, 2018
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship, Humanities Division, UCLA, 2017-18
Travel Award, UCLA Department of English, 2018-23
Travel Grant, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024
Milner Fellowship, UCLA, 2016-17
Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, Division of Graduate Education, UCLA, 2016-18
Departmental Honors, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2014
SELECTED CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conferences Organized:
With Helen Deutsch, Jason Farr, Paul Kelleher, and Jared Richman, “Archive, Theory, Access: New Directions in Disability Studies,” The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, November 14, 2025.
With Helen Deutsch, Rachel C. Lee, and Katja Antoine, “Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities, and the Limits of Medicine,” UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, November 17-18, 2023.
With Arielle Stambler and Spencer Robins, “Timeframes,” Friends of English Southland Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, June 8-9, 2018.
With Hannah Schaller and Loredana Mihani, “In Medias Res: M.St. 1700-1830 Day Conference,” University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 16, 2016.
Sessions Organized:
With Paul Kelleher, Panel on “Disability and the Environment,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, online, March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025.
With Paul Kelleher, Roundtable on “Disability and the Practices of Care,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, online, March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025.
With Emily Stanback, Roundtable on “Disability/Gender/Sexuality,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, Canada, April 4-6, 2024.
With Emily Stanback, Panel on “Disability, Health, and the Public,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, Canada, April 4-6, 2024.
Papers Presented:
“A Memoir of Robert Blincoe and Public Health in Early Victorian England.” Conference on “The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accommodation,” Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Project, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, October 24-25, 2024.
“William and Ellen Craft’s Subversions.” Session on “Citizenship, Nationality, and Disability: Romanticism and Beyond,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism/International Conference on Romanticism, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., August 15-18, 2024.
“The Factory Memoir and Disability in Public.” Session on “Disability, Health, and the Public,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, Canada, April 4-6, 2024.
“Trauma, Disability, and the Fall from the Cobb.” Session on “Disability/Life/Voice,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 18-21, 2023.
“Accommodation in Millenium Hall.” Roundtable on “Intersectional Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Disability,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, MO, March 9-11, 2023.
“Disability, Gender, and Sexuality.” Roundtable on “New Directions in Long Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 5-8, 2023.
“Priscilla Pointon’s ‘Illegitimate’ Couplets.” Session on “The Couplet Now,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 5-8, 2023.
Graduate Student Panel. Conference on “Archive and Theory: The Future of Early Modern Anglo-American Disability Studies,” William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, October 7-8, 2022.
“Disability and The Deformed Transformed.” Conference on “New Romanticisms,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism/British Association for Romantic Studies, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom, August 2-5, 2022.
“Priscilla Pointon’s Disability Poetics.” Session on “Disability Performances,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Baltimore, MD, March 31-April 2, 2022.
“Data and Disablement in Wordsworth’s Poetry.” Session on “Romanticism and Data,” The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2022. [online due to COVID-19]
“Disability’s Material Bonds in Harriet Martineau’s ‘Cousin Marshall.’” Conference on “Bonds,” International Conference on Romanticism, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, October 14-16, 2021.
“Appropriation and Disablement in Wordsworth.” Conference on “Translation and Appropriation in the Long Eighteenth Century,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada, October 13-16, 2021. [online due to COVID-19]
“Belinda and the Science of the Romantic Novel.” Conference on “Romantic Elements,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, August 8-11, 2019.
“Reading at Face Value: Mary Leapor’s Self-Portraits in Poems Upon Several Occasions.” Conference on “The Global Eighteenth Century,” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 15-16, 2019.
“Deforming Genre and Gender: William Hay’s Incursion into Medical Commodity Culture.” Conference on “Wonder in the Eighteenth Century,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Guelph, Fallsview, Ontario, Canada, October 10-13, 2018.
“‘The contemptible carcass’: William Hay and Bodily Deformity in Eighteenth-Century England.” Conference on “Eighteenth-Century Science(s),” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, February 17-18, 2017.
Discussant:
Respondent to “Recollecting Ritual Time” panel. Friends of English Southland Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 10-11, 2019.
TEACHING
Courses Designed and Taught as Primary Instructor:
Twisted Bodies and Twisted Plots: Reading Physical Disability in Literature (Spring 2023)
Critical Reading & Writing: “The (Dis)orderly Body in Literature” (Summer 2020) [online due to COVID-19]
Critical Reading & Writing: “Literature and Science” (Spring 2019)
Critical Reading & Writing: “Illness and Disability Narratives” (Fall 2018)
Courses Taught as Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow:
Literary Cities—Service Learning: Refugee Literature, Then and Now (Spring 2024)
Introduction to Visual Culture (Winter 2019)
Major American Authors (Spring 2018)
Literary London: Tales of Two Cities (Winter 2018)
Literatures in English, 1700-1850 (Fall 2017)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Researcher, Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Project, UCLA, 2023-25
Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Department of Sociology, 2023
Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, 2017-23
Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Department of English, 2017
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2025
Reviewer, Journal of Medical Humanities, 2025
Co-Chair, Disability Studies Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023-25
Graduate Student Representative, Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2021
Contributing Writer, Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, 2018-20
At UCLA:
Graduate Student Mentor, UCLA Department of English, 2021-22
Co-Organizer, Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group, 2019-25
President, English Graduate Union, 2018-19
Co-Coordinator, Eighteenth-Century/Romantics Working Group, 2018-20
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Modern Language Association; North American Society for the Study of Romanticism