Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Middlebury College (2021 – )
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo (2019 – 2021)
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo (2013 – 2019)
Education
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, English, 2020
Dissertation: “The Measure of Humanity: Literary Quantification and the Routes of Accumulation in British Atlantic Writing, 1650 – 1800”
Director: Ruth Mack; Readers: Dave Alff, Rachel Ablow, Judith Goldman
M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, English, 2016
Examination fields: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Victorian Literature; Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century North American Experimental Poetics
B.A. Wesleyan University, English, 2013
Refereed Publications
“The Ameliorationist Trap: Reformist Capture and the Long Eighteenth Century” (accepted at Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Special Issue on “Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions,” Winter 2024)
“How to Read by Numbers: Plague, Political Arithmetic, and the Production of History,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 61.3 (Fall 2020)
Manuscripts in Progress
“The Measure of Humanity: Quantitative Style and its Discontents in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic” (monograph)
“On Self-Preservation: Quantification, Plantation Georgic, and the Limits of Environmental Writing” (article)
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
ENAM 433: Revolt and Rebellion in Long Eighteenth Century Literature (Spring 2022)
ENGL/ENAM 225: Eighteenth-Century Literature (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
ENAM 223: Creative Derivation: Rewriting, Remaking, and Unmaking Literature (Spring 2022)
ENAM 103: Reading Literature: Disaster (Fall 2021)
FYSE 1007A: Abolitionism(s): Then and Now (First-Year Seminar, Fall 2022)
Instructor, State University of New York at Buffalo:
ENG 232: British Writers II (Fall 2016)
ENG 209: Writing About Science (Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
ENG 208: Writing About Literature (Spring 2019)
ENG 207: Introduction to Writing Poetry and Fiction (Spring 2018)
ENG 204: Writing About the Environment (Spring 2020)
ENG 201: Writing II (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
ENG 105: Writing and Rhetoric (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020—two sections)
ENG 101: Writing I (Fall 2013, Fall 2015)
Selected Presentations and Talks
“The Ameliorationist Trap,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting (Baltimore, March 2022)
“On Police Ameliorationism: Eighteenth- and Twenty-First Century Pitfalls of Reform,” 2022 MLA Annual Convention (virtual presentation, Washington DC, January 2022)
“‘aided by the line, consult the site’: Form, Environment, and Quantitative System in The Sugar-Cane” ASECS Annual Meeting (Online, March 2021)
“The Planter’s Eyes: Quantification, Form, and System in Grainger’s Sugar-Cane,” Historical Poetics Now (Austin, November 2019)
“Accounting for the Storm,” ASECS Annual Meeting (Denver, March 2019)
“(De)forming Society, or: What if the Sovereign Is Ugly?” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) Annual Meeting (Rochester, NY, October 2018)
“Policing by Numbers: Plague, Political Arithmetic, and Numerical Argument,” Bloomington Eighteen-Century Studies Workshop (Indiana University, May 2017)
Panels Chaired
“The Laboratory of the Human,” ASECS Annual Meeting (Online, March 2021)
“Number, Weight, or Measure: Numerical Eighteenth Centuries,” ASECS Annual Meeting (Orlando, March 2018)
Awards and Honors
ASECS/Clark Fellowship (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the Center for 17th– &
18th-Century Studies, UCLA, 2019-2020)
College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship (SUNY at Buffalo, 2019)
Opler-Doubrava Fifth-Year Fellowship (Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo, 2017)
Presidential Fellowship (SUNY at Buffalo, 2013-2017)
Sophie Reed Prize (Wesleyan University, 2013)
Departmental Service
Middlebury College
Curriculum Committee (2022 – )
University at Buffalo
Graduate Admissions Committee (2017)
Special Opportunity Hiring Committee (2015)
President, Graduate Poetics Group (Fall 2014 – Fall 2015)