I’m a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, and the Irby Cauthen Jefferson Fellow at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation. My primary research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century American and Anglophone fiction, questions of gender and sexuality, and contemporary cultural production.

My dissertation, Freedom's Fluctuations: Queer Affect and Contemporary American Fiction, takes up a corpus of recent novels in order to reimagine what queer freedom means in the present. Working across queer theory, trans studies, feminist moral and political philosophy, and critical phenomenology, I redescribe freedom as a dynamic, relational, and affective state, negotiated with others and with particular importance for trans and queer life.

I am a copyeditor for New Literary History. From 2021-2022, I was a Graduate Fellow in the John L. Nau III History and Principles of Democracy Lab, as well as the president of the Graduate English Students Association.

Before coming to UVa, I earned my B.A. in English at Oklahoma Christian University (2017), graduating summa cum laude. I also hold an M.A. in English from Georgetown University (2020).