Teaching Experience
2014 - present: Adjunct Faculty, Middle Tennessee State University
2021: Instructional Designer, Vanderbilt University
2020: Adjunct Faculty, Columbia State Community College
Selected Publications
"The Mother of All Monsters: Behind the Sins of Margaret White." Grim 8 (Spring 2021): 29-32.
"'Four of the Most Important Walls in the Commonwealth:' Walden Pond and Henry David Thoreau's Transcendentalist Philosophy in Fallout 4." Studies in Popular Culture 42.2 (Spring 2020): 25-45.
"Ahabs, Turtles, and Survivor Girls: Postmodernism in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon." Studies in Popular Culture 39.2 (Spring 2017): 23-37.
"La Belle et la Bete: The Palace of Versailles, Self-Fashioning, and the Coming of the French Revolution." Scientia et Humanitas 6 (Spring 2016): 57-70
"Why Does Bruce the Shark's Gender Matter in Jaws?" The Take (November 28, 2015).
Selected Conference Presentations
"The Final Girl Grows Up: The Meta Evolution of Feminism in Horror Films." PCAS/ACAS, New Orleans, Oct. 2022
"Consent and the Superbody: Gambit and Rogue's Relationship in X-Men: The Animated Series." Comics and Popular Arts Conference, Atlanta, Sept. 2022
"Honeyed Words: Race and the Cultural Impact of Graffiti in Candyman." PCAS/ACAS, Virtual Conference, Oct. 2021
"What Little Girls Are Made Of: CryptTV and the Return of the Girl Monster." Comics and Popular Arts Conference, Virtual Conference, Aug. 2020
"'Only Other Place I Can Get Some Decent Chinese Food:' Overwatch, the Junkers, and Australia as Backdrop for Apocalypse." Comics and Popular Arts Conference, Atlanta, Aug. 2019
"Bruce Almighty: Ruminations on Jaws and the Gender of a Shark." PCAS/ACAS, New Orleans, Oct. 2018
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Provost Writing Fellowship, MTSU, 2019
William R. Wolfe Graduate Award, MTSU, 2017
Ray and Pat Brown Award, PCAS/ACAS, 2016
Professional Service & Affiliations
Member-at-Large, PCAS/ACAS, 2022-present
Editor, Popular Culture Association, 2022-present
Media and Accessibility Consultant, Rutherford County Library System, 2021-present
Languages
English (fluent)
French (proficient)
Japanese (proficient)
