Academic Work

Degrees (in progress & completed)

MA, English

      • University of Northern Iowa, 2024


BA, English with Highest Honors

      • Lewis University 2020


BA, Secondary Education with Highest Honors

      • Lewis University 2020


AA, General Studies with Honors

      • Waubonsee Community College 2017

Curriculum Vitae (last updated April 2022)

Selected Presentations

28th Annual St. Francis Writer's Conference

      • Date: 16 November 2019

      • Title: “Pedagogy of the Pre-Raphaelites: Art Criticism, Historiography, and Literature as in Interdisciplinary Curriculum”


International Gothic Association Conference

      • Date: 31 July 2019

      • Title: “Madness in the Highlands: Gendered Settings in Anne Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789)”


Lewis University's Celebration of Scholarship

      • Date: 19 April 2018

      • Title:Breaking with Tradition: Sherman Alexie and Lorraine Hansberry Change the English Canon

Selected Publications

Windows Fine Arts Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 40, 2020

      • Award: First Place

      • Category: Creative Nonfiction Essay

      • Title: Marks Engraved”


Windows Fine Arts Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 40, 2020

      • Award: Honorary Mention

      • Category: Poetry

      • Title:Natural Distraction


Windows Fine Arts Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 38, 2018

      • Award: Second Place

      • Category: Poetry

      • Title:Elegy of White and Sable