Education
PhD in English, University of Cambridge, 2015
MA in English, Stanford University, 2006
BA in English, Stanford University, 2005
Publications
Books
Tennyson’s Philological Medievalism. Forthcoming from Boydell & Brewer.
Refereed Journal Articles
“The ‘diaphanous veil’ of Edward Lear’s Tennyson Songs.” Victorian Poetry and the Salon, special issue of Victorian Poetry 60:2 (Summer 2022). DOI 10.1353/vp.2022.0006
“‘A love for old modes of pronunciation’: Historical Rhyme in Tennyson and Morris.” Tennyson Research Bulletin 11:4 (2020) 305-24.
“Tennyson’s Wordhoard.” Tennyson Research Bulletin 11:1 (2017) 25-32.
“Victorian Philology and the Metaphors of Language.” Literature Compass 12:7 (2015): 333-343.
Short Monographs
Tennyson’s Notebook Glossary and Rhyme Lists. Lincoln: Tennyson Society, 2019. Tennyson Society Monograph Ser. 17.
Book Chapters
“How Smart Is Watson? or, The Role of the Sidekick.” Mapping Arthur Conan Doyle’s Modernities: 1887-1929. Ed. Tom Ue. Manchester UP. Forthcoming.
Reviews
Rev. of Fossil Poetry: Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry, Chris Jones. Victoriographies 9:3 (2019).
Rev. of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience, Martin Dubois. Victoriographies 8:3 (2018).
Rev. of John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal: The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831, ed. Eric W. Nye. Rocky Mountain Review 69:2 (2015): 296-98.
Teaching Experience (Cambridge University)
Old English (2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14)
Victorian poetry for English Literature and its Contexts, 1830-1945 (Lent term 2013)
Critical Theory Seminar (2012-13)
Undergraduate thesis supervision
- Woman as Sorceress in Medieval and Medievalist Poetry (2020-21)
- Tennyson’s Glassworlds (2013-14)
- Rhetoric, Caricature, and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (2012-13)
Shakespeare (Lent term 2012)
Leadership & Administration
2019-22 Non-Traditionally Employed Representative, NAVSA Advisory Board
2011-13 Academic Officer, Trinity Hall MCR (graduate student community)
2012-13 Women’s Captain, Trinity Hall Boat Club
Conference Activity
Events Organized
| 2013 | Marshall McLuhan Symposium: Borders and Boundaries. Trinity Hall, Cambridge. |
| 2012 | Marshall McLuhan Symposium: Memory. Trinity Hall, Cambridge. |
Papers Delivered
For more details of papers I have delivered, see Conference Papers.
Lectures and Presentations
| 2013 | “Old Words, New Poetry: Why Tennyson Sounds Old-Fashioned (but isn’t),” McMenemy Seminar (graduate lecture), Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. |
| 2012 | “‘Alike a Word and an Iliad’: Tennyson and Victorian Philology,” English Faculty Nineteenth Century Seminar, University of Cambridge. |
| 2011 | “Tennyson’s Cambridge,” McMenemy Seminar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. |
| “‘A Collection of Faded Metaphors’: Language, Meaning, and the Implications of Philology in the 19th Century,” English Faculty Graduate Lecture Series, Cambridge. |
Grants and Awards
| 2015, 2014, 2011 | NAVSA Conference Travel Grants |
| 2014 | Sally Ledger Memorial Prize, British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) |
| 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012 | NVSA Conference Travel Grants |
| 2010-13 | Trinity Hall PhD Scholarship |