• Department of English

• PHD, Pennsylvania State University (2024)
• MA, Pennsylvania State University (2020)
• BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore (2018)

I specialize in early American literary, medical, and antislavery political writing with a focus on print culture, the health humanities, and visual culture.

I am an assistant professor of English teaching courses in American literature, literature and medicine, narrative medicine, and science fiction. I joined MTSU in Fall 2025 after completing my PhD in English and Visual Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. My current book project examines how early American antislavery writers engaged with conversations in medicine and medical illustration to redefine how their peers saw the human body.

Fall 2026

ENGL 3450: Studies in Narrative--Medical Literature

ENGL 1010H: Expository Writing (Honors) --- two sections!

Past Courses

ENGL 2020: Themes in Literature and Culture--Narrative Medicine/Medical Literature

ENGL 2020: Themes in Literature and Culture--Science Fiction

ENGL 3030: American Literature--Colonial to the Present

ENGL 3840: Science Fiction