I study Romantic British women writers, and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries more broadly. My dissertation, "Romantic Women Writers in the Margins," explores how women writers use paratextual apparatuses such as footnotes, prefaces, portraits, epigraphs, and genre categories to develop diverse and complicated authorial personas to engage the public. I take little-known Romantic novelist Jane Porter as my through-line: in Chapter One I put Porter in dialogue with James Macpherson's mid-eighteenth century Poems of Ossian to analyze history, nation, and genre; in Chapter Two I compare Porter to Sydney Owenson to examine public-facing paratext and women's authorship of national novels; in Chapter Three I trace the posthumous reception of Jane Porter and childhood friend Walter Scott to study how paratext shifted to align with concepts of history, nation, gender, and genre. 

I also study Romantic women's autobiographies, letters, manuscripts, and afterlives, along with Romantic celebrity culture and authorship networks, focusing on Jane Austen, Jane Porter, Sydney Owenson, Germaine de Staël, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays, and Lady Caroline Lamb. 

I am also deeply committed to my teaching, to public humanities and outreach, and to interdisciplinary community and collaboration. I teach 100- and 200-level courses for the English program such as "Harry Potter: The Magic of Writing" and "Jane Austen and Her World," and for the Robinson Center. I help coordinate the 18/19C Graduate Research Cluster,  am the Organizer of UW's Frankenreads event, and am also a NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Co-Chair. I am formerly the English Liaison to the UW in the High School Program, the Executive Officer of the Graduate Student Organization, and the Organizer of JaneFest 2017.

This year I am grateful to be a McGill-ASECS Fellow at the Burney Centre at McGill, a New York Public Library Short-Term Fellow, and a UW Chester Fritz International Research Fellow at the National Library of Scotland.