Department of English

My research focuses on turn-of-the-century British, Irish, American, and Latin American literature and modernist aesthetics. My interests lie broadly in the relationship between visual culture and design, theories of industry and technology, psychoanalysis, and the novel as a form through which these perceptual paradigms are negotiated, diffused, and restructured. My dissertation explores the crisis in 20th-century hermeneutics between functionalist and psychoanalytic models of theorizing aesthetics and the production of meaning. Modernism’s obsession with transparency, reflectiveness, gridding, negative space, and the cosmetic surface are of special interest to my current research.

Courses Taught:

Emerson College

IN 315: Advanced Topics in Psychoanalysis as Cultural Criticism: Uncanny Aesthetics and Sexuality, Spring 2020/Fall 2020/Spring 2021

IN 126: Literature of Extreme Situations, Fall 2019;

HS 101-01: Literature and Culture of the Americas, Fall 2019 & Spring 2020

Brown University

Instructor

ENGL200: Intimate Horrors: Encountering the Uncanny in Literature and Film (Spring 2016);

ENGL 900: Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay (Fall 2015);

CEEL 0983: Writing the Expository Essay, Summer Sessions 2017 and 2016 (pre-college);

CEEL 0991: Putting Yourself into Words, Summer Sessions 2019 and 2015 (pre-college)

Co-Instructor

CEEL 0997: Party Girls: Feminist Fiction Up ‘till Dawn 1815 – 2015, Summer Sessions 2018 and 2017 (pre-college)

Teaching Assistant

CEEL 0928: Freud: Psychoanalysis and its Legacies, Summer Sessions 2015 and 2014 (pre-college)