I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at University of Florida, where I also hold a graduate certificate in Environmental Education and Communication. My dissertation, Submerging Animal Studies: Staying with the Trouble in Deep-Sea Literature, Media, and Activism, explores how encounters with deep-sea animals challenge human-centered frameworks of knowledge, interspecies connection, and ethics. Drawing on historical and contemporary literature, archival research, visual culture, and scientific writing, my work investigates how we can care and protect creatures of the abyss.

My research has appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment, CUSP: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Cultures and Virginia Woolf Selected Papers 2022 and 2023. I am a 2026 recipient of the Tedder Doctoral Research Fellowship, which funded archival research at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

I have designed and taught introductory surveys and composition courses, including Animals World Literature: pre-1750, Animals in World Literature 1750-present, and Composition with Special Topics: Writing about Science. My teaching bridges scientific and humanistic inquiry, inviting students to think across species, media, and environments. I am inspired by the more-than-human world as a site of wonder, resistance, and possibility. In 2025 and 2026, I received the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award from University of Florida.

I am also a fiction writer, where I explore the intersection of human experience and the environment. My work has appeared or is forthcoming at Greensboro Review, The Colorado Review, Narrative Magazine, Terrain.org, Wild Roof Journal, and others. My first novel is under representation by Barbara Bova Literary Agency. I am an alumna of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Yale Writers’ Workshop, and Kenyon Review Writers’ Conference.