Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Florida May 2026

M.A., Applied Philosophy and Ethics Texas State University May 2019

M.A., Literature, Texas State University August 2017

B.A., English, Minor in Asian Studies, University of Texas May 2015

Research Interests

  • Children’s & YA Literature

  • Girlhood Studies

  • Visual Rhetoric

  • Monster Studies

  • Comic Studies

  • Video Game Studies

Dissertation

University of Florida, Ph.D. English Literature         2026

The Monstress Arrives: Fantastic Transformations in Comics and Manga from 2010-2020s

Master’s Thesis

Texas State University, M.A. English Literature         July 2017

The Better to See You with: Revealing a Hero's

Monsterhood Through Villains

2026

Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture

This Chapter Was Not Supposed to Exist: Chimeric Chaos in It’s Lonely At the Center of the Earth (Forthcoming)

2020

Women Write About Comics (WWAC)

Once Upon a Wizard’s Romance: A Review of Nagabe’s The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms

Publications

2024

University Teaching Award 2023-2024, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Departmental Teaching Award 2023-2024, University of Florida, Department of English, Gainesville, FL

2022

$5,000 Rothman Endowment, University of Florida’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


2019

Outstanding Graduate Student, Philosophy Department, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Awards & Grants

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | August 2020 – Present

    Graduate Teaching Assistant for the English Department (LIT2000, ENG1131, ENC1145, LIT4333, ENL2012)


    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | August 2022 – August 2024

    ImageTexT Co-Managing Editor


    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | August 2020 – August 2021

    ImageText Assistant Book Reviews Editor


    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | August 2021 – August 2022

    ImageText Book Reviews Editor


    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | September 2019 – August 2020

    ImageText Style Editor


    University of Florida, Gainesville Florida | August 2019 – May 2020

    Graduate Teaching Assistant for the University Writing Program (UWP)


    Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas | September 2016 - May 2019

    Graduate Instructional Assistant for the English and Philosophy Departments

  • 2025

    Anime Expo Academic Symposium

    Magical Girl Operation: Costume & Cosplay in Witch Hat Atelier

    International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

    Eat Your Heart Out: Hungry for Intimacy in Monstress



    2024

    Anime Expo Academic Symposium

    Growing Pains: Demon Slayer’s Memorial to the Past

    Popular Culture Association

    The Sound of Love: Romance and Deafness in A Silent Voice and A Sign of Affection

    2023

    Comic Arts Conference, Wondercon          

    The Goddess Behind Our Tiny Screens: Thinking about How Webcomics Craft Intimacy with Lore Olympus

    Popular Culture Association  

    Hold A to Hold Hands: Horror and Comfort in Yomawari & Little Nightmares

    2021

    Children's Literature Association Conference

    Little Lost Things: Embodying Monstrous Childhood in Little Nightmares

    2019

    Anime Expo Academic Symposium

    “This is a Game I Made”: Ludonarrative Dissonance in Incidental Isekai or The Genre that Refuses Refusal