Education
- Ph.D. in English, Auburn University (2016)
- M.A. in English, Auburn University (2010)
- B.A. in English, University of Illinois at Chicago (2008)
Teaching Experience
- Temple College, Temple, Texas - Assistant Professor of English (2025-present)
- University of South Carolina Salkehatchie, Allendale, South Carolina - Assistant Professor of English (2019-2025)
- Florida State University Panama City, Panama City, Florida - Instructor (2018-2019)
- Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama - Instructor (2009-2016)
Courses Taught
Temple College
- ENGL 1301 – Composition I
- ENGL 2323 – British Literature II
- ENGL 2328 – American Literature II
University of South Carolina Salkehatchie
- ENGL 101 – Critical Reading and Composition
- ENGL 102 – Rhetoric and Composition
- ENGL 287 – American Literature
- UNIV 101 – Student in the University
- PCAM 299 – Preparing for Success in College
Florida State University Panama City
- ENCP 1101 – Freshman Composition and Rhetoric
- ENCP 1102 – Freshman Writing, Reading, and Research
- LIT 2000 – Introduction to Literature
- LIT 3383 – Women in Literature
Auburn University
- ENGL 1100 – English Composition I
- ENGL 1120 – English Composition II
- ENGL 2210 – World Literature After 1600
- ENGL 2250 – American Literature Before 1900
Professional Presentations
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Integrating Student Experience into the Curriculum"
Oktoberbest: A Symposium on Teaching, Columbia, South Carolina (2023)
"returning to the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 2022: Uncovering the Poetics of Place in Early American Historical Memory"
Society of Early Americanists Conference, College Park, Maryland (2023)
"Flipping the Hidden Curriculum: Creating Equity for First-Generation and Non-Traditional College Students"
Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) Conference, North Adams, Massachusetts (2022)
"Eliza Lucas Pinckney's Digital Edition and the Possibilities of Online Archives"
The Mobile Archives Project, online (2021)
"'She Hath Done What She Could': Zillah Haynie Brandon's Genre-Bending Memoirs and the Challenges of Interpretation"
Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Baltimore, Maryland (2021)
"The Power of Pen and Ink: Reexamining the Historical Narrative of the Stono Rebellion"
Society of Early Americanists Conference, online (2021)
"'the fruit of my industry': Eliza Lucas Pinckney's Cultivation of Legacy"
South Carolina Historical Association Conference, online (2021)
"Family Matters: Eliza Lucas, George Lucas and the Power of Epistolary Performance"
Society of Early Americanists Conference, Eugene, Oregon (2019)
"Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the (re)Fashioning of a Global Garment"
Society of Early Americanists Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma (2017)
Panel organizer with Melissa Antonucci: "The Trade Gap: Reconsidered"
Society of Early Americanists/Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture joint conference, Chicago, Illinois (2015)
Panel organizer with Stacey Dearing: "Modern Adaptations of Early American People, Places, and Spaces"
Society of Early Americanists Conference, Savannah, Georgia (2013)
"'To return, then, to the wild and the free': P.H. Gosse's Romantic Naturalism and the Challenge of the Alabama Frontier"
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, North Carolina (2012)
"The Rhetoric of Female Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney's Navigation of Place, Space and Other"
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Atlanta, Georgia (2012)
Professional Publications
"'The Truth is Much Different': Eliza Lucas Pinckney's Literary Lives and the (Re)Production of Colonial Violence."
Early America and the Modern Imagination, edited by Patrick Erben and Rebecca Harrison, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, pp. 254-279.
"'the fruit of my Industry': Eliza Lucas Pinckney's Cultivation of Legacy."
Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, 2021, pp. 53-64.
Campus/Campuses
- Temple College Main Campus
- ISD: Cameron Yeo High School