Education
PhD in English Literature from University of Georgia (expected May 2024)
MA in English Literature from Michigan State University
BA in English & Humanities from Milligan College
Publications
“The Art of Eternal Disaster: Tolkien’s Apocalypse and the Road to Healing.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review.
“‘No Pagan ever loved his god’: Tolkien, Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods.”
Mythlore 37.1 (Fall/Winter), 2018.
Review essay of
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, by Verlyn Flieger.
Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, 5.1, 2018.
http://journal.finfar.org/articles/book-review-there-would-always-be-a-fairy-tale/Projects
“‘They always wished to talk to everything’: Recovering the Border-walking Mystics of Middle-earth.” MA thesis.
“Nationalism and Empire in William Sharp’s Where the Forest Murmurs.” Article underway. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Staggering towards the Light: Utopia in Shelley’s The Last Man.” FSU, April 4, 2020.
“Returning to the Scene of Victory: Apocalypses in the Climactic Moments of The Lord of the Rings.” TexMoot, Houston, TX, February 8, 2020.
“The Life and Legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien.” River Terrace Church, May 2019.
“Translating Trickster: Reading Loki for the 21st Century.” More than Marvel: Representations of Norse Mythology in Contemporary Popular Culture. ICMS, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2019.
“Death by Romance: The Tortured Textuality of Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles.” Hideous Progeny: The Gothic in the Nineteenth Century. Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society. Chicago, October 2018.
“‘No Pagan ever loved his god’: Tolkien, Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods.” Mythcon 49, The Mythopoeic Society. Atlanta, July 2018.
“The Last of the Minstrels: Tolkien’s Quest for Abdication in the Age of the Author.” NCUR. Asheville, NC, April 2016.
“The Return of the King: Power Constructs and Cycles in The Lord of the Rings.” NCUR. Asheville, NC, April 2016.
“The Stranger in the Mirror: Identity Formation and the Other Construct in Selected Short Stories.” Tennessee Experiential Learning Symposium (TELS). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 2015.
