Currently, I am Assistant Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Boston College. In 2022, I received my PhD in English literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; my dissertation was awarded the 2023 J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize by the Shakespeare Association of America. In addition to my scholarship, I have written essays for the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Fiction Advocate, and The Rumpus.

My book project, Saturnine Ecologies: Environmental Catastrophe in the Early Modern World, analyzes literary representations of ecological disaster in the early modern period. Encompassing the mythic Age of Saturn and the historical Little Ice Age, environmental catastrophe was the conceptual engine that drove Renaissance writers toward literary innovation and new paradigms for cataloguing the more-than-human world. Then and now, “climate change” has a cultural position, which provides us a deep repertoire of metaphors and references for understanding our own Anthropocene present.

I teach courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry and drama, critical race studies, and the environmental humanities, as well as surveys on pandemic literature and children’s literature. I have discussed my research as a guest on the High Theory podcast. I am also a host for the New Books in Literary Studies, where I interview scholars working in early modern studies, ecocriticism, and critical race studies.

Previously, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan, where I taught English at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. I also taught English literature and language at Chiang Mai University, in Thailand.