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Educational Background
Ph.D., English, Fordham University
M.A., English, Southern Connecticut State University
B.A., summa cum laude, English, minor in Creative Writing, Southern Connecticut State University
Professional Experience
Georgian Court University
Associate Professor, 2022-present
Assistant Professor, 2015-2022
Courses Taught at GCU
EN106: Essentials of Academic Writing II
EN111: Academic Writing and Research I
EN112: Academic Writing and Research II
EN114: American Literature Since 1865
EN221: Honors Argument: Rhetoric and Research
EN250: The Power of Grammar
EN313: Medieval Literature
EN316: Seventeenth Century Literature
EN318: Romantic Literature
EN430: Senior Seminar II
GEN199: Discovering Self in the Big Universe
Research / Creativity Interest Area
Restoration and Eighteenth Century
English Political History
Early Modern Theatre
Book History
Composition and Rhetoric
Publications
“I Will Keepe None of There Bastardes”: The Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour.” In Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England. Eds. Samantha Dressel and Matthew Carter, Routledge, 2023. 55-75. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003319177-5
“Have Thy Black Deeds Then Turn’d Thee to a Devil?”: Black Legend Legacies and Anti-Dutch Rhetoric in William Davenant’s Macbeth. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies22(3), 104-134. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/927071
“Illustrating and Performing Antony and Cleopatra in the Eighteenth Century.” In Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Post-1640 Book Trade. Eds. Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan, Cambridge UP, 2017. 63-78.
Conference Presentations
“Insidious Trauma and the Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour.” Shakespeare Association of America. Virtual Conference, April 2021.
“Aphra Behn: Legal Eagle?” Shakespeare Association of America. Denver, CO, April 2020.
“Sherlock Re-Centered: How the Baker Street Irregulars (Writing Center Tutors) Occupy Liminal Space.” Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Pittsburgh, PA, November 2019.
“Reflecting on Successes: The Meaningfulness of a Writing Center in Its Fourth Year.” The 35th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Writing Centers Association. Danbury, CT, March 2019.
“Mandating Writing Center Appointments for Skills-Development Students.” The 34th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Writing Centers Association. Worcester, MA, March 2018.
“Wartime Trauma and Religious Oppression in William Davenant’s 1674 Macbeth.” Shakespeare Association of America. New Orleans, LA, March 2016.
