Resume

University of Florida

Degree: Ph.D. in English (2021)

Field(s): Comics, 20th/21st Century American Literature, Trauma and Memory Studies, Environmental Literature, Transnational Adaptation

Dissertation: In the Shadow of the Code: Censorship, Underground Comix, and the Rise of American Graphic Memoir

Advisor: Anastasia Ulanowicz

Committee: Marsha Bryant, Sidney Dobrin, Nina Caputo

Tennessee Technological University

Degree: M.A. in English (2014)

Thesis: Traumatic Representations in the Nonfiction Graphic Novels of Spiegelman, Sacco, and Beauchard

Advisor: Anthony D. Baker

Committee: Brian J. Williams, Josephine McQuail

Tennessee Technological University

Degree: B.S. in Communications (2012)

Focus: News Reporting and Editorial

Minor: Public Relations

Tennessee Technological University

Degree: B.A. in History (2009)

Focus: Contemporary American History

Minor: Communications

20th/21st Century American Literature, Adaptation, Animation and Film, Autobiography, Comics,

Disability Studies, Environmental Literature, Memoir, Memory Studies, Queer Theory, Remix Theory, Trauma Studies, Visual Rhetoric

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Neo-Springfield is About to E*X*P*L*O*D*E: The Nuclear Imagination and Grassroots Mashing of Bartkira.” Sequentials 4 (presented in comics, 2019).

“Networking Multivalence Trauma through Holonymic Representation in David B.’s Epileptic.” ImageTexT 9.1 Special Issue: “Traumics” (2017).

“Expanding the Role of the Gutter: Forged Memories in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde” Studies in the Novel 47.3 Special Issue: “The Graphic Novel” (2015).

Book Reviews

The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World edited by Daniel Worden. UP of Mississippi 2015. ImageTexT 9.2 (2017).

Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives edited by Chris Foss, Jonathan W. Gray, and Zach Whalen. Palgrave Macmillan 2016. The Lion and the Unicorn 41.1 (2017).

Vanishings by Gary Fincke. Stephen F. Austin UP 2015. Under the Sun 4 (2016).

In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer. Coach House 2013. ImageTexT 7.4 (2014).

“Hi-Diddly-Ho, Tetsuo!: How Bartkira‘s Fandom Remixed The Simpsons and Akira.” The 2019 Annual Modern Language Association Conference (2019).

“Neo-Springfield is Set to E•X•P•L•O•D•E: Remixing the Nuclear Imaginations of The Simpsons and Akira in James Harvey’s Bartkira.” The 15th Annual University of Florida Comics Conference (2017).

“‘It’s a movie… about camp’: Sexual Scripts and Diegetic Horror in Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer.” The 43rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference (2016).

“Exoticization and Adaptation through the Diegetic Ichi in Glyn Dillon’s The Nao of Brown.” The 13th Annual University of Florida Comics Conference (2015).

“The War Between the Lines in Joe Sacco’s Comics.” The 13th Annual University of Florida Comics Conference (2014).

“Forged Memories: Closure and Traumatic Representation in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde.” The Tennessee Philological Association 2014 Conference (2014).

“Blood in the Gutters: Empathy and Memory in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (2014).

“Manifesting Monsters: Metaphorical Representation and Trauma in David B.’s Epileptic” The The New Voices Graduate Student Conference at Georgia State University (2014).

“Kitsch as Dialogue in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” The Columbus College of Art and Design’s 2013 MIX Symposium on Comics (2013).

Self-Designed Courses

Upper-Division at the University of Florida

AML 3041 American Literatures 2: “American War Stories”

Instructor of record.

Involved five, 75-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

Institutional description: Selected texts from 1865 to the present, in diverse historical and cultural 

contexts, usually organized around a theme or several themes.

Course incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Summer 2019 (one section)

Lower-Division at the University of Florida

AML 2410 Issues in American Literature and Culture: “Graphic Memoir”

Instructor of record.

Involved three, 50-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

One meeting per week incorporated critical making.

Institutional description: Introduces some of the most important issues that arise in the study of 

American literature and culture. The instructor determines the breadth and focus of the topic.

Course incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Spring 2017 (one section)

AML 2070 Survey of American Literature: “American Literature and the Environment”

Instructor of record.

Involved three, 50-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

Institutional description: Introduces some of the major writers, issues and forms found in the history of American literature. The instructor determines the breadth and focus of this survey.

Course incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Spring 2019 (one section), Spring 2018 (one section), Fall 2016 (one section)

ENC 1145 Topics for Composition: “Writing About Summer”

Instructor of record.

Involved three, 50-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

Institutional description: Instruction in expository-argumentative writing related to one special topic selected by the instructor. Readings include variable genres from different disciplines.

Course incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Fall 2018 (one section)

ENG 1131 Writing Through Media: “Comics Adaptations and (Re)Making”

Instructor of record.

Involved three, 50-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

Two meetings per week included intensive technology usage during one class meeting.

One meeting per week incorporated critical making or creative production.

Institutional description: Explores the practices of literacy in the context of popular culture, including cinema, television, advertising, popular fiction and journalism.

Course incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Fall 2019 (one section), Fall 2017 (one section)

ENG 1131 Writing Through Media: “Images in Transit”

Instructor of record.

Involved five, 75-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

Three meetings per week included intensive technology usage during class meeting.

Two meetings per week incorporated critical making or creative production.

Institutional description: Explores the practices of literacy in the context of popular culture, including cinema, television, advertising, popular fiction and journalism.

Course incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Summer 2017 (one section)

Department-Designed Courses

Lower-Division at the University of Florida

ENC 1102 Argument and Persuasion

Instructor of record for one section.

Involved five, 75-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly.

One meeting per week included intensive technology usage during class meeting.

Institutional description: Writing techniques and forms of argument in a range of disciplines. For 

their major writing assignment in this course, students will write an extensively researched and 

well-documented research paper, learning professional and academic writing conventions and 

developing their critical thinking skills.

Courses incorporated Canvas into instruction and bookkeeping.

Taught: Summer 2016 (one section), Spring 2016 (one section), Fall 2015 (one section)

Lower-Division at Tennessee Technological University

ENGL 1020 English Composition 2

Instructor of record.

Involved two, 80-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly per section.

One meeting per week included intensive technology usage during class meeting.

Institutional description: Emphasizes critical reading, critical thinking, and critical writing 

(persuasion) about a variety of written texts and other media.

All sections incorporated Desire2Learn into instruction and bookkeeping.

All students participate in annual Festival of Student Writing, a showcase of student-designed 

multimodal projects.

Taught: Spring 2015 (three sections), Spring 2014 (one section)

ENGL 1010 English Composition 1

Instructor of record.

Involved two, 80-minute class meetings plus two office hours weekly per section.

One meeting per week included intensive technology usage during class meeting.

Institutional description: Introduces students to expressive, expository and persuasive writing.

All sections incorporated Desire2Learn into instruction and bookkeeping.

All students participate in annual Festival of Student Writing, a showcase of student-designed 

multimodal projects.

Taught: Fall 2014 (three sections), Fall 2013 (two sections)

Tutoring Service

University Athletics Association at the University of Florida (Fall 2016 - present).

Worked with a diverse array of student athletes in numerous Humanities disciplines, including, 

Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Composition, and German. 

Served as a writing tutor for six hours per week per semester in the Writing Lab.

Writing Center at Tennessee Technological University (Fall 2012 - Spring 2014).

Served as a writing tutor in a multi-disciplinary environment.

Worked with copious numbers of English Language Learning Students.

Spent six hours per week in the center.

Teaching Award

Excellence in Teaching awarded by the University of Florida Department of English (2018).

Sequentials: A peer-reviewed, open source journal committed to publishing comics scholarship in the comics medium.

Peer Reviewer (Fall 2019 - Present)

Review submissions to the journal for academic rigor, argument quality, and creative vision.

Advise editorial management team.

Provide feedback and recommendations for submission alterations.

ImageTexT: A peer-reviewed, open source journal focused on comics, Comics Studies, and related fields.

Managing Editor (Summer 2018 - Fall 2019).

Reviewed quality of general submissions to journal.

Assigned outside peer reviewers for submissions.

Coordinated with staff members on editing articles for style.

Organized special editions with outside editors.

Served as contact for all questions and submissions.

Reviews Editor (Summer 2017 - Summer 2018).

Worked directly with reviews writers.

Edited reviews for publication.

Solicited texts for review for the journal.

Assistant Reviews Editor (Summer 2016 - Summer 2017)

Worked under the Reviews Editor with editing tasks.

Sequentials: A peer-reviewed, open source journal of comics scholarship presented in the comics medium.

Peer Review Editor (Spring 2020 - present)

Read and respond to submissions made to the journal for academic rigor, argumentative quality, and illustrative quality.

Advise in-house editorial staff on acceptance or rejection of submissions.

Under the Sun: An online literary journal exclusively dedicated to the publication of creative non-fiction that welcomes domestic and international submissions. 

Associate Editor (Summer 2014 - Summer 2016)

Read and evaluated submissions for consideration in the journal.