Coursework
M.F.A. in Creative Writing — University of Utah, May 2025
Thesis title: “No Man Is an Island: Part One”
Specializations: The novel as archive, historical and science fiction, epistolary and documentary forms, bildungsroman.
Thematic subjects: U.S. Naval history, environmental humanities, science and technology, surveillance, time and memory, intertextuality.
M.F.A. Committee: Lindsey Drager (chair), Elizabeth Callaway, Amy Thompson
Teaching:
WRTG 2010: Intermediate Writing, Fall 2023 (one section), Spring 2024 (two sections), Fall 2024 (two sections)
WRTG 1010: Introduction to Writing, Spring 2025 (one section)
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
In-class 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)
Awarded Susan Kranzler Scibilia ’68 Memorial Prize 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.