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”
