EDUCATION
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, 2009-present
- Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, Ph.D. Program in English
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 2005-2009 BA. English/Honors major, History/Humanities minor, Summa Cum Laude
- Presidential Scholar and Connelly-Delouvrier International Scholarship
- Robert Russell, O.S.A Award for the Core Humanities Essay on Augustine
- Honorable Mention Student Research Award in Ethics
National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland, Spring 2008
ACADEMIC JOB EXPERIENCE
John Jay University, New York, NY, 2010-2014
- Adjunct Lecturer, two English composition and literature courses per semester (English 101/201, English 231)
- Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Fellow, 2013-2014
Yeshiva University, New York, NY, 2012-2014
- Faculty Writing Tutor
Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY, Fall 2010
- Editor, Renaissance News and Notes v. 22 no. 2
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, 2009-2010
- Research Assistant
Opportunity Scholarship Program, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, 2005-2007, 2009-2014 (summers)
- Writing Instructor and Tutor for ESL students
Villanova Writing Center, Villanova, PA,2007-2009
- Writing Tutor
Teaching Internship for a freshman seminar class, Villanova, PA Fall 2008
Internship in Building Community, Columbia University, New York, New York, Summer 2008
- Resident Assistantship and Teaching Assistant
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Notorious Abuse: Shakespearean Portrayals of Incarcerated Manhood.” Early Modern Masculinity Conference: Manhood, Interrupted panel. CUNY Graduate Center. 30 April 2010
“Early Modern Portrayals of Incarcerated Manhood.” Prison Studies Group Conference: Crime and the Construction of Gender. CUNY Graduate Center. 25 March 2011
“‘They Pass not for Civility:’ The Depiction of Diet and Dining in English Texts about Ireland.” Early Modern Masculinity Conference: Racial Encounters Panel. CUNY Graduate Center. 29 April 2011
“Navigating the Oral and the Written in Scenes of Confinement in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Northeast Modern Languages Association: Between the Written and Oral: Medieval and Early Modern Women and Their Texts. 22 March 2013.
“Indebted performances: Clothing Culture and the Prison in Early Modern English Theatre.” Northeast Modern Languages Association: Occupy the Globe: Capitalist Culture in Early Modern English Drama Seminar. 24 March 2013.
SERVICE EXPERIENCE
English Student Association Co-Chair, 2011-2012
Executive Committee, Student Representative for the English Student Association, 2012-2013
Course Assessment Committee, 2012-2014
Doctoral Student Council Program Representative,2013-2014
Member of Prison Studies Group, 2010-2014
- Helped to organize and publicize yearly conference
RESEARCH INTERESTS
early modern depictions of the prison on the stage, early modern texts about the Irish/Ireland , material culture, composition and rhetoric.
