About

I am currently an Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. I'm also an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and I'm involved with the Humanities Digital Workshop here. I’m currently in the last year of my 5-year elected term on the MLA’s Sexuality Studies executive committee, and I’ve just chaired this year’s MSA Book Prize committee.

Research

My research interests include 20th- and 21st-century British and Anglophone literature, especially the novel; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; life writing and letters; archival theory and methods; modernism; the contemporary novel; queer historical fiction; temporality and age studies; the literature of environmental crisis; and digital humanities theory and methods.

Teaching

I am the Director of Graduate Studies for the English PhD program. In Fall 2024, I am teaching “Literary Studies and Graduate Research,” the required introductory seminar for incoming doctoral students. In Spring 2025, I will offer an undergraduate course on “Contemporary Women Writers,” one of my very favorite classes to teach.