My dissertation project, “Polar Currents: Ice and Empire in U.S. and Arctic Writing, 1840-1920,” has been awarded a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
This project has also been supported by research grants and archival fellowships with the International Society for the History of Oceanography, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England.
PUBLICATIONS
PRESENTATIONS
“Freeze/Thaw Cycles: Translation and Mediation in Arctic Indigenous Travel Writing,” C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Cincinnati, OH, March 2026.
“Archipelagic Geographies in Pauline Hopkins’ Winona,” C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Cincinnati, OH, March 2026.
“What’s Moby-Dick to a Thawing Arctic?” Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON, January 2026.
“The Sovereign Geopoetics of Bamewawagezhikaquay, or Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, College Park, MD, July 2025.
“Provenance, Recollection, and Curatorial Resistance: The Making of the Harriman Recollected Digital Project,” Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, American Library Association, New Haven, CT, June 2025.
“Nineteenth-Century Ship Logbooks in the Age of (Big) Climate Data,” International Melville Society, Mystic Seaport, CT, June 2025.
“Settler Science and the Indigenous Souvenir Trade: Recovering a Piece of Scrimshaw from the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition,” Workshop: Exploring New Perspectives on the Material Culture of Expeditionary Science, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, October 2024.
“Visions of Glacial Whiteness: Illustrating Ice, Race, and Religion in a Chaplain’s Diary of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition,” The Arctic Throughout History: Visual and Cultural Conceptions, New York Public Library, April 2024.
“Ahistoricity as Queer Method in Our Flag Means Death,” C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pasadena, CA, March 2024.
“The Last Frontier? Melville, Cartography, and Colonialism on the Sea-floor,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2024.
“Nineteenth-century Women’s Literature on the Edge: Archipelagic Experiments in Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isles of Shoals,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2023.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
AWARDS
Research Grant, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, 2026
Public Humanities Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, 2026
Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship, The Melville Society/New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2026
Superior Teaching and Research Award, Penn State University, 2025
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2025-2026
Research Travel Grant, International Commission of the History of Oceanography, 2024
German Research Foundation, “Exploring New Perspectives on the Material Culture of Expeditionary Science” Workshop, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, 2024
Digital Humanities Training Award, Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State University, 2023
University Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2021-2025
Master’s Research Fellowship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2020-2021
Northrop Frye Centre Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2019
Youth Ambassador, Canada C3 Expedition, government-funded ship voyage, British Columbia, 2017
National Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2016-2020
TEACHING
CMLIT 107: Literature of Exploration, Travel, Migration, and Exile / CMLIT 147N: Displacement and Migration (Combined section), Penn State University, Fall 2024
Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition, Penn State University, Summer 2023, 2024, 2025
TUTORING
Writing Center, Washington University in St. Louis, 5 hours a week, Fall 2026-Spring 2027