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
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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 2024ImageTexT Co-Managing Editor
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | August 2020 – August 2021ImageText Assistant Book Reviews Editor
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | August 2021 – August 2022ImageText Book Reviews Editor
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | September 2019 – August 2020ImageText Style Editor
University of Florida, Gainesville Florida | August 2019 – May 2020Graduate Teaching Assistant for the University Writing Program (UWP)
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas | September 2016 - May 2019Graduate Instructional Assistant for the English and Philosophy Departments
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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
2024Anime 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