Academics

Click Here to View My Curriculum Vitae as of March 2024

Degrees & Certificates

MA, Library and Information Science (accepted)

Certificate in Special Collections Librarianship
Emphasis on Academic Librarianship
University of Iowa

MA, English

- - Certificate in Literary Publishing
  - University of Northern Iowa, May 2024

BA, English with Highest Honors

- - Lewis University, May 2020

BA, Secondary Education with Highest Honors

- - Lewis University, May 2020

AA with Honors

- - Waubonsee Community College, May 2017

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The Google Slides presentation above is a synopsis of my thesis in partial fulfillment for the Degree of Master of Arts in English from the University of Northern Iowa. Click on the ellipsis to download a PDF version.

Select Presentations

Luther College Writers Festival

- - Date: 22 September 2023
  - Title: “Publishing Panel with Keith Pilapil Lesmeister, Denton Loving, Jeremy Schraffenberger, and Jake Volk”

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)”

Select Publications

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

- - Award: First Place
  - Category: Creative Nonfiction Essay
  - Title: “Marks Engraved”