I write about American culture and the environmental humanities as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Born

Princeton, WV

hometown

Ellsworth, PA

current Residence

Boston, MA

I’m an assistant professor of English at Saint Louis University (starting in 2024), with specialties in modern and contemporary American culture, Latinx and Indigenous studies, and the environmental humanities. For the 2023-24 academic year, I’m doing research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Center for the Humanities at Harvard.

I hold a PhD in English from Princeton University, where my work was awarded the Jacobus Fellowship (Princeton’s top graduate prize in the humanities); an MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi, where I was a John and Renee Grisham Fellow; and a BA in English at the University of Florida.

I’m currently at work on my first monograph, Company Town Archipelago: Art, Environment, and American Corporate Empire. The project’s five chapters spotlight how contemporary writers and artists in a range of mediums are looking to the complex legacies of company towns to animate possibilities of dissent and hope from deep within the Anthropocene.

My writing has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, American Literature, The Georgia Review, Transatlantica, and elsewhere. I’m the coeditor of two volumes of scholarly essays: Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2023) and Teaching Energy Humanities (MLA Press, in progress). I have been a resident artist at the Blue Mountain Center, a night watchman at a corporate data center, and a maintenance assistant at the largest underground coal mine in the US.