Education: BA: Carleton College (2006)
MFA: New York University (2010)
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017)

Interests: 20^th- and 21^st-century Anglophone literatures, climate fiction and literature, environmental justice writing

Selected Works: 

“Guerrilla Gardening: At the Intersection of Birnam Wood and Minneapolis.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2294811; “The Poetry of Climatic Witness: Slam Poets at United Nations Climate Summits.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 62, no. 4, 2022, pp. 558-89; “Frontiers of a Shrinking World: Recent Climate Fiction.” Climate in American Literature, edited by Michael Boyden, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 257-272; “Disordered Environmental Time: Phenology, Climate Change, and Seasonal Form in Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 25, no. 4, 2018, pp. 700-21; “From Suspect to Species: Climate Crime in Antti Tuomainen’s The Healer.” Mosaic, vol. 51, no. 3, Sept 2018, pp. 19-35.

I welcome conversations with all my undergraduate and graduate students. Given my research, I am particularly interested in conversations related to activism and organizing. I can also speak to navigating academia as a woman and as a relative newcomer to the Ivy League.