Projects

• COR 1200: Intellectual Foundations (Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023) – Carthage College – instructor of record for seven first-year sections


• Lecturing on EN692: Literature and Life: c. 1400-1700 (Spring 2020) – University of Kent, School of English – lecturer for Week 20, ‘Literature and Marriage’


• Exam marking on EN694: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (Summer 2019) – University of Kent, School of English – contracted to mark final examination essay scripts.


• EN692: Literature and Life: c. 1400-1700 (Spring 2019) – University of Kent, School of English – leading one second-year seminar group


• EN694: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019) – University of Kent, School of English – leading five second-year seminar groups


• Shakespeare and World Literature (Autumn 2014, Spring 2015) – Christ Lutheran Academy (private school, Kenosha, WI) – convened one year-long 8th-grade course and one single-term 5th – 8th grade combined course

• Memory and Mortality Symposium (2019), research support – Warburg Institute (London)


• Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival (2017-2018), chair of the organizing committee – University of Kent, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Canterbury)


• Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017 – present), PGR Student Rep – University of Kent and Kent Union (Canterbury)


• World Shakespeare Congress (2016), student ambassador – University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute; Royal Shakespeare Company; International Shakespeare Association (Stratford-upon-Avon)


• ‘Whose Culture?’ Celebrating 10 Years of the Learning Performance Network (2016), freelance events consultant – Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford-upon-Avon)


• British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (2015 – 2016), secretary and chair for publicity – University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Stratford-upon-Avon)


• Annual Writing Center Scholarship Competition (2012-2014), senior staff member – Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)


• Eco-Fair, in conjunction with “Sustainable Shelter: Dwelling within the Forces of Nature” (Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota) (2012), events intern – Kenosha Public Museum (Kenosha, Wisconsin)

• June 2022 – presented a paper titled “‘Two edg’d words’: Comic Violence and the Language of The Little French Lawyer,” as part of the 2022 Malone Society Conference


• August 2021 – presented a paper titled “Skulls and Things: The Female Body as Object in Early Modern Revenge Drama,” as part of the virtual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference


• November 2020 – presented on compiling resources, as part of the panel “Introducing MEMSLib – A postgraduate-led response to the pandemic in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent” (E-Quadrivium)


• June 2020 – led a virtual workshop titled “Embodying Emotion in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore“, as part of MEMS Festival 2020 (University of Kent)


• February 2020 – led a seminar titled “The MEMS PhD Experience”, as part of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies weekly research seminar series (University of Kent)


• November 2019 – led a practice-as-research workshop titled “Masking and Unmasking in The Revenger’s Tragedy“, as part of the undergraduate module EN694, Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (University of Kent)


• October 2019 – presented a paper titled “‘A quaint piece of beauty’: Bodies as ‘Things’ in Early Modern Drama” as part of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies PhD in Progress research seminar.


• July 2019 – co-organizer for the panel “Tangible and Invisible: Language and the Body on the Early Modern Stage“, and presented a paper titled “‘O blessed object’: Words, Bodies, and ‘Things’ in Early Modern Revenge Drama”, as part of the 2019 early modern conference (Durham University, IMEMS)


• December 2018 – led a practice-as-research workshop titled “Violence and Embodied Performance on the Early Modern Stage,” as part of the Cultures of Performance research cluster. (University of Kent)


• November 2018 – led a seminar titled “Reading Domestic Drama: ‘Tom Tyler and his Wife’,” which involved reading and discussion exploring slapstick violence in this anonymous play from the 1550-1560s. (University of Kent)


• July 2018 – presented a paper titled “Resistance and Revenge in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi and Carey’s Tragedy of Mariam” as part of the Renaissance Drama (3) panel at the Authority, Gender and Social Relations Early Modern Studies Conference (Durham University, IMEMS)


• June 2018 – presented a paper titled ‘Speaking Death and Dying Listening in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies’ as part of the ‘Death, Dismemberment and Plague’ panel at the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute)


• February 2018 – presented a paper titled ‘Objectified Bodies in Middleton’s The Second Maiden’s Tragedy‘ as part of the London Shakespeare Centre and Shakespeare’s Globe Inaugural Graduate Conference, ‘Making Connections: Early Modern Texts and Cultures’. (King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre)


• February 2018 – led a seminar titled “‘Be thou true’: Pronominal Address in Early Modern Drama,” which involved readings and discussion exploring the use of pronouns in 16th and 17th century dramatic texts. (University of Kent)


• December 2017 – presented a paper titled ‘Wordborne Contagion in Troilus and Cressida‘ as part of a panel on ‘The breath, the sigh, and the senses,’ at the Oxford-Globe Forum for Medicine and Drama in Practice. (Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)


• December 2016 – presented a paper titled ‘”Passion is Catching”: Grief and Public Mourning in Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, and King John‘ as part of the “Grief and Mourning” panel at the Globe Education Department’s Cultures of Mortality conference. (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre)


• July 2016 – presented a paper titled ‘”A Gift, I Warrant”: Power and Reciprocation in Timon of Athens, King Lear, and All’s Well That Ends Well‘ at Spectrum: Celebrating Interdisciplinary Research in Literature and Culture, a postgraduate conference focusing on work from within the schools of English, Drama, American, and Canadian Studies (EDACS), and the humanities more widely. (University of Birmingham)


• June 2016 – presented a paper titled ‘”A Woman Well Reputed”: Portia’s Rhetoric in Julius Caesar‘ as part of the “Power of Rhetoric in Shakespearean Conflict” panel, at the 2016 British Graduate Shakespeare Conference. (University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute)


• October 2011 – part of a panel presentation titled “Electronic Portfolios: Multiple Functions in Writing Center Staff Development” at the Fall 2011 Midwestern Writing Center Association conference. (University of Wisconsin – Madison)


• November 2010 – as part of a team, gave a poster presentation on the results of Coe College’s Longitudinal Writing Across the Curriculum (LWAC) Study at the Fall 2010 International Writing Center Association conference. (Baltimore, MD)

• 2021 – present – Social media intern, Shakespeare Association of America


• 2020 – present – Co-founder and editor, MEMSlib, University of Kent


• 2019 – 2021 – Cataloguing Assistant, University of Kent Special Collections and Archives


• 2018 – present – Peer Reviewer, The Shakespeare Institute Review


• 2017 – 2019 – Social Media ghost writer, Americans of Conscience Action Checklist


• 2017 – 2018 – Community Blogger, Kenosha Area Convention and Visitors Bureau


• 2016 – 2017 – Digital Administrative Consultant, Kenosha Symphony Orchestra


• 2015 – 2017 – Teaching staff, preschool – 8th grade levels (Education department), Kenosha Public Museum