Graduate Student English (Literature) The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Research Interests
Early modern British literature and natural philosophy; ecocriticism and environmental humanities; premodern critical race studies; animal studies; sensory studies
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Conference Presentations
“Little but Sensible Kings of Heaven and Earth: Traherne’s Insects and Perception before Language," Renaissance Society of America Boston 2025, March 2025
“Anxieties of Converted Sense in The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare Association of America 53rd Annual Meeting, March 2025
“Considering Ants and ANT: Traherne and Latour’s Relational Ecologies,” Affiliations: Toward a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison, British Comparative Literature Association, Oxford, May 2024
"Natural and Unnatural Slavery in Samson Agonistes: Milton's Construction of an English Subject," Thirteenth International Milton Symposium, University of Toronto, July 2023
"Thomas Traherne's Early Modern Phenomenological Reduction," Panel: (Mis)Perception: Case Studies in the Literary Values of Vision, Uncommon Senses IV, Concordia University, May 2023
"Living Wights, Sensible Souls: Non-Human Apprehension and Enjoyment in The Kingdom of God," Relational Experience(s), Southwest Humanities Symposium, Arizona State University, March 2023