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Education
BA University of Rochester
MA, PhD University of Illinois
Awards and Honors
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2016
English Department Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2015
Undergraduate Rhetoric Program Award for Excellence in Writing Instruction, 2011
Courses Taught
ENGL / MACS 104: Intro to Film
ENGL 200: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Study
ENGL 220: Literature and Science
ENGL 221: Speculative Futures
ENGL 300: Novels on Film
RHET 105
RHET 101 and 102
selected publications
BOOKS
- Public Religions in the Future World: Postsecularism and Utopia. Univ of Georgia Press, 2021.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- "Intellect and Activism: The Secular Authority of Left Behind." Cultural Critique 90.1 (2015): 64-87.
- "'Only a Religion Could Do It:’ Octavia Butler’s (R)evolutionary Movements for the Twenty-First Century." Utopian Studies 26.2 (2015): 270-88.
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Recent Publications
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, 2025, pp. 193-215.
"Course Design - BTW 250: Principles of Business Communication.” With A. Kay Emmert, Andrew Moss, and Andrew Bowman. Composition Studies 51.2 (fall 2023): 106-116.