Coursework

M.F.A. in Creative Writing — University of Utah, May 2025

Thesis title: “No Man Is an Island: Part One”

Focus Areas: The novel as archive, speculative and science fiction, bildungsroman, epistolary and polyvocal narrative, historiographic metafiction, U.S. naval and environmental history, sailing and oceanography

M.F.A. Committee: Lindsey Drager (chair), Elizabeth Callaway, Amy Thompson

Graduate Courses and Workshops:

Foundations of Environmental Humanities, Fall 2024

Term Paper: “Re(media)ting the Nuclear West: Time, Hypermediacy, and Place in the Downwinders of Utah Archive”

Animal Victorians, Fall 2024

Term Paper: “Frame Narrative in The Island of Dr. Moreau”

Book Design and Production, Spring 2024

Final Project: “Reflections on Finsta (and the Persistence of a Diary)”

Contemporary Literature, Fall 2023

Presentation: “Reading the Internet in Chris Alexander’s Panda”

Narrative Theory and Practice, Fall 2023

Fiction, Fall 2023, Spring 2025

Experimental Forms, Spring 2024

Poetry, Fall 2024

B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric, magna cum laude — Hobart and William Smith Colleges, May 2022

Honors in English for novella, An Analysis of Tide and Current Inside a Wormhole

Honors Committee: Melanie Conroy-Goldman (faculty advisor), Benjamin Ristow, Meghan Brown, Eleanor Henderson (outside examiner)

Susan Kranzler Scibilia ’68 Memorial Award for most distinction and promise in the writing of fiction.

Upper-level Courses and Workshops:

Rhetorical Criticism, Spring 2022

Term Paper: “Trending Identities: The Embodiment of Social Issues on TikTok”

Discourse Analysis, Fall 2021

Term Paper: “Constructing Cancel Culture: How Young TikTok Influencers Define the Undefinable”

Theory of Fiction, Spring 2023 (alumni audit)

Craft of Fiction, Spring 2021

New Media Writing, Spring 2021

Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2020

Presentations:

“An Analysis of Tide and Current Inside a Wormhole: Mapping the Mind Through Fiction,” Senior Symposium, April 2022.