Research
PhD Candidate, English, University of Virginia
CERTIFICATIONS
Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, WGS department (2019-2023)
RESEARCH
My dissertation explores the way eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British gothic novels constantly negotiate and actively re-negotiate women's "place" in relation to the home. I map the recursive movements, returns, and narrative structures that coalesce around the thresholds of domestic spaces and analyze how "threshold moments" in these novels illuminate and re-create new power structures for the inmates of middle-class British homes and foreign Gothic castles alike.
Research areas: the novel, narrative theory, eighteenth-century British literature, nineteenth-century British literature; women and gender studies, feminist theory, book history and scholarly editing.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
• Graduate Student Fellow, National Humanities Center Summer Residency, summer 2023
• Selected by faculty as one of UVA’s two funded graduate student representatives at the “Dickens Universe” conference, UC Santa Cruz, 2018
• Rare Books School-UVA Fellow: awarded a fellowship to complete summer coursework and an independent project in scholarly editing, 2017-2018
• Awarded the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Scholarship to attend the Rare Book School’s “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” conference, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 12-15, 2017
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• Dissertation presentation, “Threshold-Crossing and the Iterative Return in Gothic Fiction,” University of Virginia Department of English, October 2021
• Conference paper, “Home at the Crossroads: Remaking the Domestic in The Female American,” EC ASECS, Gettysburg College, 2019
• Conference paper, “‘Maintaining her own way’: Persuasion’s Female Travelers,” Mapping Austen’s World conference, University of Michigan, 2018
• Conference paper, “‘Novel’ Collections: Austen, Re-assemblage and Re-writing,” GESA conference, Making and Collecting, University of Virginia, 2017
Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, WGS department (2019-2023)
RESEARCH
My dissertation explores the way eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British gothic novels constantly negotiate and actively re-negotiate women's "place" in relation to the home. I map the recursive movements, returns, and narrative structures that coalesce around the thresholds of domestic spaces and analyze how "threshold moments" in these novels illuminate and re-create new power structures for the inmates of middle-class British homes and foreign Gothic castles alike.
Research areas: the novel, narrative theory, eighteenth-century British literature, nineteenth-century British literature; women and gender studies, feminist theory, book history and scholarly editing.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
• Graduate Student Fellow, National Humanities Center Summer Residency, summer 2023
• Selected by faculty as one of UVA’s two funded graduate student representatives at the “Dickens Universe” conference, UC Santa Cruz, 2018
• Rare Books School-UVA Fellow: awarded a fellowship to complete summer coursework and an independent project in scholarly editing, 2017-2018
• Awarded the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Scholarship to attend the Rare Book School’s “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” conference, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 12-15, 2017
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• Dissertation presentation, “Threshold-Crossing and the Iterative Return in Gothic Fiction,” University of Virginia Department of English, October 2021
• Conference paper, “Home at the Crossroads: Remaking the Domestic in The Female American,” EC ASECS, Gettysburg College, 2019
• Conference paper, “‘Maintaining her own way’: Persuasion’s Female Travelers,” Mapping Austen’s World conference, University of Michigan, 2018
• Conference paper, “‘Novel’ Collections: Austen, Re-assemblage and Re-writing,” GESA conference, Making and Collecting, University of Virginia, 2017
