employment

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

    • Associate Professor of English, 2020-present

    • Assistant Professor of English, 2013-2020

    • Affiliate faculty member, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2013-present

  • PENN STATE ERIE, THE BEHREND COLLEGE Assistant Professor of English, 2012-2013

  • ROSENBACH MUSEUM & LIBRARY Consulting Curator, 2010-2012

education

  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Ph.D. in English

  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY B.A. in English and Comparative Literature

books 

articles and book chapters

  • “Writing Queer Life and Time,” in The Cambridge Companion to Late Modernism, ed. Claire Seiler (Cambridge UP, forthcoming in 2026).

  • “Midcentury,” in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Modernisms, eds. Hannah Freed-Thall, Octavio R. González, and Juno Richards (Oxford UP, forthcoming in 2026).

  • “Feminist Modernist Collaboration, Then and Now: Digitizing Hope Mirrlees’s Paris,” with Anna Preus, in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, forthcoming in 2025.

  • “Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer,” Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming Fall 2024.

  • “Why Publishing Now?,” American Literary History 33.2 (Summer 2021), p. 432-438.

  • “The Small Press and the Feminist Critic,” in The Critic as Amateur, eds. Saikat Majumdar and Aarthi Vadde (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

  • “Weak Theory in the Mainly Precarious Room,” with Aarthi Vadde, Modernism/modernity Print Plus (August 15, 2019).

  • "Obliterature: Toward an Amateur Criticism," with Aarthi Vadde, Modernism/modernity 24.3 (September 2018): 511-543. Winner of the 2019 Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship in English.

  • "The Impossible Miss Woolf: Kate Atkinson and the Feminist Modernist Historical Novel," MLQ 78.4 (December 2017): 517-538.

  • "Not of National Importance: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Women's Work, and the Mid-Century Historical Novel," in Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights, ed. Allan Hepburn (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016), 66-83.

  • "Queer Woolf," in A Companion to Virginia Woolf, ed. Jessica Berman (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 347-358.

  • “‘Living in Two Tenses’: The Intimate Archives of Sylvia Townsend Warner.” Journal of Modern Literature 36.1 (Fall 2012), 119-131.

  • “The Queer Timing of Orlando,” in Queering Woolf, eds. Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt. Spec. issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany 82 (Fall 2012), 11-13.

conference papers, presentations, and invited talks

  • “Accessing the Unfinished,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA. 9-12 January, 2025.

  • “A Conversation about Queer Archives,” with Kelli Connell. The High Museum and the University of Georgia, 20 November 2024.

  • Invited Participant, Seminar on “Intimate Methods,” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Chicago, IL. 7-10 November, 2024.

  • “A Conversation with Carmen Maria Machado,” Center for Literary Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. 25 September 2024.

  • “The Great Unfinished,” Feminist inter/Modernist Association Conference. Oxford, MS. 16-18 May, 2024.

  • Invited Participant, roundtable on “Unfinished Feminist Modernist Studies,” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Brooklyn, NY. 26-29 October, 2023.

  • Invited Participant, roundtable on “The Collaborative Turn in Literary Studies,” MLA Annual Convention. Washington, DC. 6-9 Jan 2022.

  • Invited Participant, roundtable on “Fictions of Belonging,” MLA Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. 9-12 Jan 2020.

  • Invited Participant, roundtable on “Whither Sex?” MLA Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. 9-12 Jan 2020.

  • “Queer Disinheritance and the History of Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. 17-20 October 2019.

  • “‘History collapses when you hold a hawk’: Helen Macdonald, Nationalism, Naturalism,” MLA Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 3-6 January 2019.

  • “Finsta Fic,” roundtable on “Shadowtime,” MLA Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 3-6 January 2019.

  • “Seeing Modernist Collaboration, Then and Now: On Digitizing Hope Mirrlees’ Paris,” with Anna Preus, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Columbus, OH. 8-11 November 2018.

  • "Not Knowing In Advance," roundtable on "Learning through 'Failure': Feminism on Campus in the Years Ahead," MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY. 4-7 January 2018.

  • "Academic Class and Archival Research," roundtable on "The Digital Future of Literary Archives," MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY. 4-7 January 2018.

  • "On Not Knowing the Nature of the Emergency: Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy and the Temporality of Environmental Crisis," ASAP/9, Oakland, CA. 26-28 October 2017.

  • "On Togetherness: Partnership in the Archive," roundtable on "Archival Boundaries." MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. 5-8 January 2017.

  • "Modernism's Midwives," roundtable on "Modernism and Amateurism." Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pasadena, CA. 17-20 November 2016.

  • "No Canon for Old Women: Queer Inheritance and the History of Modernism." Symposium on Aging Modernisms. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 25-26 March 2016. Invited Talk.

  • "That's Not Funny: Feminist Killjoys, Old Women, and Other Scorned Subjects." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Seattle, WA. 26-29 March 2015.

  • "The Good Gardener: Ford Madox Ford's Postwar Masculinity." Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 7 November 2014.

  • "'As common as blackberries, and as unregarded': Old Women, Modernist Novels, and the Question of Community." Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 6 November 2014.

  • "'Not of National Importance': Sylvia Townsend Warner, Women's Work, and the Midcentury Historical Novel." Colloquium on Literature, Citizenship, Rights. McGill University. Montreal, QC. 21-22 August 2014. Invited talk.

  • "Counterfactual Feminism: Kate Atkinson and the Contemporary British Historical Novel." Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring Colloquium Series. Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO. 20 February 2014.

  • "An Anecdotal Archive: Restoring Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company." MLA Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 9 January 2014.

  • "Habits of the State in Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them." MLA Annual Convention. Boston, MA. 6 January 2013.

  • "Prolific Modernism." Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 18 October 2012.

  • "Archival Research in Modernist Literature." Roundtable Participant. Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group. University of Pennsylvania. 18 October 2011.

  • "Feminist Intersections." Roundtable Participant. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY. 7 October 2011.

  • "The Birth of Bloomsday: A Short History of a Literary Holiday." The Rosenbach Museum & Library. Philadelphia, PA. 23 June 2011.

  • "Seeing Ulysses in Philadelphia." University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. 14 May 2011.

  • “Artistic Networks in the Parisian ‘20s.” The Rosenbach Museum & Library. Philadelphia, PA. 7 April 2011.

  • “‘I am living in two tenses, and very agreeably’: The Intimate Archive of Sylvia Townsend Warner." MLA Annual Convention. Los Angeles, CA. 8 January 2011.

  • “The Modernist and the Locavore.” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Victoria, BC. 12 November 2010.

  • “‘A highly ambiguous condition’: Reading Sincerity In and Around Orlando.” Modernist Studies Association Annual Convention. Montreal, QC. 5 November 2009.

 selected awards and fellowships

selected awards and fellowships

  • Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize (finalist), 2020.

  • Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship in English, 2019.

  • Classroom Innovation Award, Washington University in St. Louis, Spring 2017.

  • First Book Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2016.

  • Harry Ransom Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-16.

  • Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, Summer 2015.

  • Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (for graduate advising), Washington University in St. Louis, Spring 2015.

  • Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, 2010-11 and 2011-12.

  • Phyllis Rackin Prize in Feminist Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.

  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

  • Pew Presidential Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.