About

Californian, Associate Professor of English, Associate Chair of English, CSUN Senator-At-Large, MLA Public Humanities Incubator Mentor 2022. I go by she/her.

As a researcher and teacher, I am working to better understand the relationship between forms and genres of popular print culture and the nineteenth-century Anglophone world. My interests include 19th-century and contemporary print culture, form and genre, empire, space and place, globalization, ecology, diversity and equity, women’s writing, pop culture, and public humanities. I have been published in The Journal of American Culture, Studies in American Fiction, Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and more. I am currently at work on a book about the historic influence of transatlantic captivity narratives on 19th-century U.S. imperial, popular imaginings of Asia-Pacific expansion.

When I am not reading or teaching, you can find me working on digital and public humanities initiatives. Most recently, I was selected by a blind review panel to present my paper, “The Writing Process as Opposed to Writing Product in the Era of OpenAI” in spring 2024 at the CSUN College of Humanities AI Showcase. In fall 2023, I was hired as an English Studies Consultant for Scale AI in rubric development, helping develop accurate, safe, and responsible AI content. I was also invited to craft a podcast on representations of gender and sexuality in the horror pulps for the Circa Queer Histories Roundtable by ONE Archives Foundation at CSUN in fall 2023. Earlier, I also served as one of the MLA Public Humanities Incubation Mentors in 2022. In 2021, I won a CSUN Community Engagement Seed grant to help my students craft a collection of podcasts that augmented CSUN’s annual University Library exhibit, “Los Angeles On Film and On Record.” My pedagogy and podcast series are briefed in CSUN’s University Library E-News! https://library.csun.edu/eNews/Spring-2021/featured

I also recently worked on the nationally-recognized, Mellon-funded WhatEvery1Says project and used machine learning methods (topic modeling) to analyze public discourse on the humanities at large data scales (newspapers). I also served as a Media Curator for the Stanford University Press-published textbook, The American Yawp, which began as an open-source U.S. History textbook. In the past, I have worked as a research associate and encoder for digital archives, including the Women Writer’s Project and the Modernist Journals Project. I have experience developing MODS records, TEI encoding, using OCR programs, and other aspects of the digitization process.