Education
Ph.D. (expected 5/2025)
Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2018 - Present
Dissertation: Trivial Pursuits: Women Readers, Materialist Feminism, & A New Life of Bookishness in the 21st Century
Committee: Kristen Ghodsee and Melissa Sanchez (co-chairs), James English, Dagmawi Woubshet
Graduate Research Assistant with the Wolf Humanities Center, 2024-2025
Mellon Mid-Doc, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, 2021 - 2022
Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate
M.A.
Draper Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
(Since renamed XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement)
New York University
2015-2017
Thesis: “Women’s Pleasure is Political. Pleasure as Resistance in Three Contemporary American Texts by Women”
Advisor: Emma Heaney
B.A.
Comparative Literature (Major) & Political Science (Minor)
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2010-2015
Columbia University, DAAD scholarship, 2012 - 2013
Université Paris VIII, ERASMUS, Spring 2015
Awards & Fellowships
GSWS Graduate Mentor Award, 2023 + 2024
GSWS Graduate Student Research Expense Grant, 2024
Lynda S. Hart Award for Graduate Student Teaching, 2023
The Arthur M. Daemmrich and Alfred Guenther Memorial Prize for outstanding achievements in Comparative Literature Studies, 2022
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students, 2022
Dissertation Research Award for summer research, 2022
Price Lab for Digital Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellow, 2020
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship for five years of doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2018
Research Interests
Readers, Romance genre, Social Media (Goodreads, Instagram), Materialist, Black, Postcolonial and Woman of Color Feminism; Digital Humanities, Online Women’s book clubs (Reese’s Book Club), the Everyday/Ordinary Life, Jane Austen Retellings, Beauty, transnational women’s literature fan fiction/adaptation.