Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in English, University of Georgia, in progress.

MFA in Poetry,University of Notre Dame, 2017.

MA in English, University of Wyoming, 2015.

BA in English and French,University of Wyoming, 2013. 

      Magna cum laude, with honors, Creative Writing minor.

 

Teaching Experience

Metropolitan State University of Denver, Affiliate Faculty, First-Year Writing Program, 2018-2019.

• English 1010: Composing Arguments

• English 1020: Research and Argument Writing

Colorado Early Colleges Parker, Instructor, 2017-2018.

• English 060: Foundations of Literature and Composition

• English 090: College Prep English

• English 121: English Composition I (concurrent enrollment course offered through Arapahoe Community College)

University of Notre Dame, Graduate Instructor, English Department, 2016.

• English 20000: Introduction to Creative Writing

• English 20002: Introduction to Poetry Writing

University of Wyoming Writing Center, Writing Consultant, 2014-2015.

Summer High School Institute, University of Wyoming, Discussion Leader, Summer 2014.

University of Wyoming, Graduate Instructor, English Department, 2013-2014.

• English 1010: Composition and Rhetoric

University of Wyoming Athletics, Tutor, 2013.

• Provided academic support for student-athletes in composition, public speaking, and French.

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Manuscripts in Preparation

The A4 Highway and other poems by Linda Maria Baros.  Translated from French.

So Pretty, Pretty Boy by Édith Azam (Éditions du Frisson Esthétique, 2007).  Translated from French.

Atrocity Kitsch: Vienna Actionism and the Aesthetics of Excess, monograph.

 

Conference Presentations

“Brooklyn Baby: The Beats and Lana Del Rey’s Cultural Misremembering.” University of

     Wyoming interdisciplinary conference. Laramie, Wyoming, March 27, 2015.

“‘Black Rain Come Down’: American Gothic Landscapes and the Australian Imagination.”University of Wyoming interdisciplinary conference, Laramie, Wyoming, March 27,

     2014.

“Turbulence in Action: Toward a Fractal Poetry,” Wyoming Undergraduate Research Day,

     University of Wyoming, April 27, 2014.  

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Invited Readings

Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA, January 31, 2020.

Creature Comforts Get Artistic Art Party, Athens, GA, August 15, 2019.

AWP, Portland, OR, “Shitholes of the World, Unite!” March 30, 2019.

 

Honors, Awards, and Scholarships

Presidential Fellowship,University of Georgia, 2019.

Finalist, Radioactive Cloud Chapbook Contest, The Outlaw, The Red Ghost, Half-Lives, a Photogram Exposed by the Dirt, 2018.

Pushcart Award Nominee, “Dead Alpha Male of the Mollie’s,” November 2018.  

Finalist, Radioactive Cloud Chapbook Contest, Lananym, 2017.

Phi Beta Kappa,2013-Present.

Cheney Grant for Study Abroad, University of Wyoming, 2013.

Clara McIntyre Scholarship, University of Wyoming English Department, 2013.

Hathaway Merit Honors Scholarship, University of Wyoming, 2009-2013.

Trustee’s Pride Scholarship, University of Wyoming, 2009-2013.

 

Professional Experience

Bookseller, Tattered Cover Bookstore.  June 2017-July 2019. 

Staff Writer, American Microreviews and Interviews.  Jan. 2017-Present.  

Manuscript editor, for Transgressive Circulations: Essays on Translationby Johannes Göransson,

     spring 2017.

Editorial Assistant, Action Books. 2015-2017.  Duties include editing manuscripts, maintaining

     social media, marketing, and mailings for an independent press.

Assistant Editor, Re:Visions Journal, University of Notre Dame, spring 2017.

Workshop Participant, Graduate Translation Conference.  University of Texas at Dallas, May 26-

     29, 2017.

Fiction Reader, Notre Dame Review. 2015-2017.

Participant, “Teaching Writing Across Disciplines”workshop presented by Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. University of Notre Dame, November 4, 2016. 

MFA Reading Series, March 9, 2016 and September 28, 2016.  Read original work with other

     Notre Dame MFA candidates.

Assessment Study,University of Wyoming Writing Center, Fall 2014-Spring 2015.  Developed and

     implemented an assessment for Writing Center efficacy under the supervision of Maggie

     Garner, Director.

Oral exams passed with distinction,University of Wyoming Department of English, Fall 2014.

Immersive French-language course,Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France, under

     the direction of Professor Bénédicte Sohier. Summer 2013.