I study Romanticism, 18/19C, Women’s Writing, Scottish Studies, and Book History, and hold a Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. My dissertation, “Jane Porter in the Margins: Paratext in the Romantic National Novel,” studies Jane Porter’s novel The Scottish Chiefs (1810) as a case study of Romantic female authorship in which Porter asserts women’s power to shape conceptions of national identity. I argue that she uses paratext to assert authority over national and historical topics usually barred to female novelists, and that while critics have dismissed her novel as inaccurate and sentimental, this emotion is a key source of her political power as a female narrator of history. While Porter presented a modest feminine authorial persona to her public, my archival and bibliographical study reveals a politically engaged woman writer seeking to serve her nation from the margins.

I also study 18/19C 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 and Expository Writing programs at UW such as "Harry Potter: The Magic of Writing," a "Food and Identity" service-learning course, and "Jane Austen and Her World," as well as teaching for the Robinson Center. In my time at UW I have served as one of the English Liaisons for the UW in the High School Program, the Executive Officer of the Graduate Student Organization, the Organizer of JaneFest 2017 and UW's Frankenreads event as one of the coordinators of the 18/19C Graduate Research Cluster, and served as a NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Co-Chair.