Assistant Professor of English

B.A. in English, University of Texas-Permian Basin
M.A. in English, University of Louisiana
Ph.D. in English, University of Arkansas

Selected Publications:
“Corsets to Crop Tops: The Enduring Legacy of the Victorians in Adaptation: An Introduction.” South Atlantic Review/Adapting the Victorians Special Issue. Winter 2023.

“‘What is it?’ ‘It is a lewd goblin’: Taking Critical Cues from Illustrative Adaptations of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market.” Adaptation. Winter 2023.

“‘Are We Not Men?’ Science, Sympathy, and Women in Adaptations of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau.” Literature/Film Quarterly. Summer 2019.

“Alice, Animals, and Adaptation: How Alice’s Early Adaptation History Nurtured John Tenniel’s Influence on Wonderland.” Adaptation Before Cinema, Ed. Glenn Jellenik and Lissette Lopez Szwydky, Palgrave, 2023.

“Testimonies of the Permian Basin,” Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere, AnthropoScene Series, Ed. Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, Pennsylvania State University Press, October 2021.

“Crude: The Unrefined Communities and Landscapes of Petrofiction.” Boom or Bust: Narrative, Life, and Culture in the West Texas Oil Patch, University of Oklahoma Press, April 2021.

“‘The Integrity of Nature’: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in the Fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer” Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss, Ed. Jonathan Elmore, Rowman & Littlefield, April 2020.

“Flash and Fabulism: A New Marriage of Old Forms,” Critical Insights: Flash Fiction, Grey House Publishing, 2016