Instructor of English, University of Mississippi 

PhD, English, Yale University, 2024

BA, English and Classics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016

I am a scholar of early modern literature and an Instructor of English at the University of Mississippi. 

My research investigates style, artifice, and classical reception broadly conceived, asking how early modern poets and playwrights transformed their ideas of the past into new kinds of aesthetic objects.

My current book project Camp Classics is on comic excess, violence, and classical reception on the early modern stage. I look at moments of theatrical violence that push the boundary between tragedy and parody to explore early modernity's fraught relationship with the classical past and the humanist schoolroom.

I have also written on translation theory and practice in early modernity and I am a translator myself with interests in Latin poetry. You can read one of my translations here.

I'm originally from Kansas City, MO.