Education
Ph.D. English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2019
Dissertation: “Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays”
M.A. English, Appalachian State University, 2012
Thesis: “‘I kissed thee ere I killed thee’: Performing Race and Gender in William Shakespeare’s Othello and Richard Wright’s Native Son”
B.A. English, minor in Psychology, Mars Hill University, 2010
Publications
“‘For her sake’: Queer Pregnancy in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Shakespeare Studies, vol. 47, 2019, 105-11.
“
Blue Roses and Other Queer Energies in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.” The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, vol. 16. 2017, 36-56.
“Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to
Titus Andronicus.”
Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 37.4. 2020, 561-564.
The Chronicle. “The ‘Combover Subject’: What Lauren Berlant Taught Me About the Academy.”
Literary Hub. “The (Semi-Hidden) History of Queer Pregnancy in Literature: on Torrey Peters’s
Detransition, Baby, and the Future of Queer Families.”
revue Prostor. “(Tak trochu skryté) literární dějiny queer těhotenství.”
Tropics of Meta. “
Pedro’s Theory in the Classroom & the Ongoing Project of Crafting an Otherwise.”
