The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics, The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 2018-2019
Career Instructor, University of Oregon, Department of English, 2018-
Pro Tempore Instructor of English, University of Oregon, 2017-2018
Visiting Instructor of English, Willamette University, 2017
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, 2011-2017
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Oregon, Department of English, 2017
B.A., Westmont College, English with honors, 2007
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Poetry and Poetics; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States; American Transcendentalism; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Lyric Theory and Genre Studies; Literary Formalism
PUBLICATIONS Book (in progress) "Antagonistic Cooperation: Poetry, Prose, and American Poetics, 1825-2016"
"Antagonistic Cooperation" recovers the surprisingly recent history of the false dichotomy between poetry and prose in US literature. From 1825 to 2016, poetry is increasingly defined by its difference from prose despite an ongoing awareness of similarities between the two. The chapters in this book trace the growing fixation on this binary, beginning with Henry Thoreau and proceeding with chapters on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, and Claudia Rankine. I demonstrate that this dichotomy has prompted headed debates, sparked technical innovations, led to editing practices that obscure original texts, and sometimes enabled impoverished readings of canonical volumes written to subvert this binary. Ultimately, I argue that these two predominating aesthetic categories, "poetry" and "prose," govern the way we read and write, teach, and interpret literature today.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters "'Evolve or die': Revision as Activism in This Bridge Called My Back and Kate Rushin's 'The Bridge Poem.'" (under review)
"'Not a story writer, really': Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem.'" (under review)
"Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose," Nineteenth Century Prose, vol. 44, Fall 2017, pp. 155-176.
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS NEH Post-doctoral Fellowship in Poetics, Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2018-2019
Malarkey Essay Prize in African American Literary or Cultural Studies, University of Oregon, 2017
English Department Nominee: University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
Sherwood Research Award, University of Oregon, 2016, 2017
CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS
"What the Age Demanded: Pound and the Poetry/Prose Debate." Modern Languages Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2019
"Prose and All: William Carlos Williams' Egalitarian Poetics." Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, Ohio, November 2018
"Bridge Brought Back: the Activist Afterlife of Kate Rushin's 'Bridge Poem.'" American Literature Association, San Francisco, California, May 2018
"Writing From Resistance: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me and College Writers." Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association, Tacoma, Washington, October 2017
"Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose." Thoreau Society Annual Conference, Concord, Massachusetts, July 2017
"Setting Aside Its Requisitions: Thoreau's Embedded Poetry." American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2017
"Thoreau's Forms of Friendship." American Literature Association, San Francisco, California, May 2016
"Questions of Self in Questions of Travel." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boise, Idaho, October 2014
"Taking Humor Seriously in Américo Paredes’s Poetry of Prayer." Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, May 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Emory University
American Studies 385W - The American Lyric (W = writing-centered course)
Willamette University
English 116W - US Protest Literature (W = writing-centered course)
University of Oregon Independent instructor
English 104 - Introduction to Literature: Belonging in America
English 200 - Public Speaking as a Liberal Art
Writing 121 - College Composition I: Written Reasoning as Discovery and Inquiry
Writing 122 - College Composition II: Written Reasoning as a Process of Argument
Writing 123 - College Composition III: Written Reasoning in the Context of Research
Discussion Leader/Teaching Assistant
English 106 - Introduction to Poetry
English 221 - Introduction to the English Major: British and American Literature, Wyatt and Surrey to Benjamin Franklin
English 222 - Introduction to the English Major: British and American Literature, 1789 to Present
English 303 - Foundations of the English Major: Close Reading
EVENT ORGANIZATION “Black Girl in Suburbia: Film Screening and Symposia About Inclusive Education,” featuring filmmaker Melissa Lowery. Lizzy LeRud (PI), Avinnash Tiwari (PI). University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences Program Grant. April 13-14, 2017. $6,000.
Organizer, reading and talk with poet Steve Roggenbuck, University of Oregon, May 2015
Organizer, poetry workshop with poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Westmont College, April 2007
SERVICE
Course Pilot, University of Oregon 2016-2017 Common Reader Composition Course (Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates), Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, Winter 2017
Common Reader Workgroup, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, 2016-17
Contemporary Poetry Reading Group Facilitator, University of Oregon, 2014-2017
Graduate Committee, Department of English, University of Oregon, 2015-2016
Composition Committee, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, 2015-2016
Textbook Adoption Committee, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, 2016
Mentor for Apprentice Teachers, Composition Program, University of Oregon, 2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association American Literature Association International Network for the Study of Lyric The Thoreau Society