The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Oregon, Department of English, 2017 B.A., Westmont College, English with honors, 2007
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
PUBLICATIONS Book (in progress) "Antagonistic Cooperation: Poetry, Prose, and American Poetics, 1825-2016" (completion anticipated by Fall 2019; manuscript to be submitted to Cambridge University Press).
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.'" A Companion to the Prose Poem. Eds. Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville, Edinburgh University Press. (forthcoming)
"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
Sherwood Research Award, University of Oregon, 2016, 2017
CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS
"Leaving Lyric in the Age of the Novel." International Network for the Study of the Lyric, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2019.
"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
The American Lyric (spring 2019, writing-intensive course)
Willamette University
American Protest Literature (fall 2017, writing-intensive course)
University of Oregon Independent instructor
Belonging in America: An Introduction to US Literature (fall 2016, fall 2015)
Public Speaking as a Liberal Art (winter 2018)
Research Writing (winter 2016, fall 2014, fall 2013)
College Composition I (spring 2018, winter 2018, fall 2017, winter 2017, spring 2016, winter 2014, fall 2012)
College Composition II (fall 2017, spring 2013, winter 2013)
Discussion Leader/Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Poetry (winter 2012)
Introduction to the English Major: Early Modern Literature (winter 2015)
Introduction to the English Major: 1789 to Present (spring 2015)
Foundations of the English Major: Close Reading (spring 2017)
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
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