English Department, University of Oregon 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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, June 2017
B.A., Westmont College, English with honors, May 2007
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States; American Transcendentalism; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Lyric Theory and Genre Studies; Literary Formalism; Composition Pedagogy
PUBLICATIONS "Bridge Brought Back: This Bridge Called My Back and the Afterlife of Kate Rushin's 'Bridge Poem.'" (under review)
"Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose," Nineteenth Century Prose, vol. 44, Fall 2017, pp. 155-176.
CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS National
"What the Age Demanded: Pound and the Poetry/Prose Debate." Modern Languages Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2019
"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
Local and Regional
Invited Speaker, Grading Strategies Panel. ENG 612 Composition GTF Seminar II, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, February 2017
Discussion Leader, “Live the Question: A Prelude to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Visit,” UO Common Reading Discussion Forum for Undergraduate Students, University of Oregon, January 2017
Invited Discussion Leader, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Episcopal Church of the Resurrection Adult Education Workshop, 2016
“Enthymeme Tragedies and Enthymeme Tricks.” Composition Conference, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, September 2015
Invited Speaker, “Practice, Practice, Practice in Writing 122.” ENG 612 Composition GTF Seminar II, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, November 2014
Panel Moderator, “The Highway to Inquiry: Teaching the Enthymeme.” Composition Conference, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, September 2014
“Fill In the Enthymeme: Class Activity Strategies.” Composition Conference, Department of English: Composition Program, University of Oregon, September 2013
“Poetry and Faith,” Episcopal Church of the Resurrection Children’s Education Workshop, 2013
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS 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 English Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Oregon, 2014, 2016, 2017 University of Oregon Three Minute Thesis Competition, 2nd Place Winner, 2016 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon, 2011-17 New Ph.D. Graduate Student Research Award, English Department, University of Oregon, 2011-12
GRANTS “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.
EVENT ORGANIZING Organizer, reading and talk with poet Steve Roggenbuck, University of Oregon, May 2015 Organizer, poetry workshop with poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Westmont College, April 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Willamette University
English 116W: US Protest Literature (Fall 2017) (W = writing-centered course)
University of Oregon Independent instructor
English 104: Introduction to Literature: Belonging in America (Fall 2015, Fall 2016)
English 200: Public Speaking as a Liberal Art (Winter 2018)
Writing 121: College Composition I: Written Reasoning as Discovery and Inquiry (Fall 2012, Winter 2014, Spring 2016, Winter 2017)
Writing 122: College Composition II: Written Reasoning as a Process of Argument (Winter 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2017, Spring 2018)
Writing 123: College Composition III: Written Reasoning in the Context of Research (Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Winter 2016)
Discussion Leader/Teaching Assistant
English 106: Introduction to Poetry (Winter 2012)
English 221: Introduction to the English Major: British and American Literature, Wyatt and Surrey to Benjamin Franklin (Winter 2015)
English 222: Introduction to the English Major: British and American Literature, 1789 to Present (Spring 2015)
English 303: Foundations of the English Major: Close Reading (Spring 2017)
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