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Education
Ph.D. Student in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University 2009-Present
My focus is on the 19th Century, particularly the fin de siècle. I am especially interested in how the Victorian period intersects with aesthetics, science and anthropology.
MA, University of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences 2007-09
Attended UC’s English and Comparative Literature Graduate School program.
While earning my Master of Arts degree I also taught 6 sections of English Composition including 101, 102 and Honors 102 to undergraduate students.
BFA, University of Cincinnati, College of Design Art Architecture and Planning 2002-06
Fine Arts- 2D
Magna Cum Laude
BA, University of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences 2004-07
English- Composition and Literary Studies
Magna Cum Laude, High Honors
Art Shows (* indicates juried show; + indicates curatorial invite)
2011-12 * “16th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition.” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, Ligonier Pennsylvania.
2011 * “The Making of a Botanist: Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1817-1911.” Lloyd Library and Museum. Cincinnati, Ohio.
2010 + “Future Blooms Craft Show.” Keep Cincinnati Beautiful’s Bloom Studio. Cincinnati, Ohio.
2009 + “Contemporary Classical Realism.” Sandra Small Gallery. Covington, Kentucky
2008-09 + Sandra Small Gallery. Covington, Kentucky
2008 + “Summer Sweat.” ArtWorks. Cincinnati, Ohio.
2008 * “Go Figure.” The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky.
2008 * “Urban Light.” Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio.
2008 + “Narrative Figuration.” Design Smith Gallery. Cincinnati, Ohio.
2007 + “Figure Works.” Eva G. Farris Gallery at Thomas More College. Crestview Hills, Kentucky.
2007 * Solo Exhibition. First Clermont Art Gallery at UC Clermont College, Batavia, Ohio.
2007 * “Made in America: People, Places, Things.” Pendleton Art Center. Rising Sun, Indiana.
2007 “The Figure Show.” Marx Gallery, Covington, Kentucky.
2006 * “Ohio All-Media Art Competition,” Coburn Gallery at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
2006 “Brew,” Mockbee Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio.
2006 “DAAP Works,” Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2006 “DAAP Works Preview,” The Greenwich, Cincinnati Ohio.
2006 “Gloss Me Up,” The Southgate House. Newport, Kentucky.
2006 * “Rites of Passage,” Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2006 “SOS Art 2006,” The Mockbee, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2005-06 Cooper’s On Main, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2005 “A New Mood I Was After,” 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2005 “Gloss: Glitz and Grime,” The Mockbee, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2004 Jacob’s on the Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2004 “Food For Thought.” DAAP Galleries Downtown, Cincinnati, Ohio
Employment
2009-Present Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Currently teaching the undergraduate literature course “Victorian Detectives.” I also teach “Interpretation and Argument” to Carnegie Mellon undergraduate students where I used Argument Mapping and They Say,I Say to encourage thinking critically about texts and hone writing competence.
2010 Intern, Posner Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Designed and coordinated an eight-display case exhibit showcasing H.M. Stanley’s In Darkest Africa (1890) through the Posner Center’s rare and historic book collection. Learned about book conservation and rare book exhibition practices.
2009-Present Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Worked with Professor Charles Rosenblum in the Art History department of Carnegie Mellon to teach “Modern Visual Culture” and “Critical Histories in Art” to undergraduate students.
2007-09 Instructor, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
Taught “English Composition” 101, 102, and Honors 102 to University of Cincinnati undergraduate students. Exhibited a range of pedagogical techniques to foster writing proficiency and critical thinking. Taught a service learning curriculum in conjunction with Keep Cincinnati Beautiful.
2007-08 Teaching Artist, ArtWorks Cincinnati, Ohio
Taught technical and professional skills to high school aged Apprentices on the “MuralWorks” project in the Central Business District in Over the Rhine.
2007 Instructor, Chatfield College Cincinnati, Ohio
Taught the studio course “Beginning Painting” to undergraduate students. Designed syllabus and activities to improve students’ understanding of value, hue, and technique, while honing their proficiency in the medium of acrylic paint.
2007 Teaching Artist, Cincinnati Public Library Cincinnati, Ohio
Facilitated the “Artist’s Night” program at the Walnut Hills branch library. Designed an all-ages art project, as well as a short speech related to the theme of the current exhibition at Manifest Gallery.
2007 Assistant Teacher, LADD Cincinnati, Ohio
Assisted Manifest Gallery board member Elizabeth Kaufman with a gallery tour and painting project for the mentally handicapped. Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled (LADD) sponsored the event for their E.D.U.C.A.T.E. series.
Publications
"The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland by Eliza Lynn Linton" (1885). Edited by Deborah Meem and Kate Holterhoff. Published by Victorian Secrets.
“Beauty as a Terministic Screen in Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man.” Victorian Network. 2.1 (Summer 2010), 49-69.
“Liminality and Power in Bram Stoker’s Jewel of Seven Stars.” Critical Essays on Victorian Gothic and Sensation Fiction from Wollstonecraft to Stoker. Ed Dr. Marilyn Brock. McFarland, 2009.
“Resume,” “Cover Letter.” A Guide to Professional Practices in the Fine Arts. Ed. Janie A. Stephens. University of Cincinnati, 2008.
Awards & Grants Received
2011 - Bursary from the Society of the Social History of Medicine to attend the Poetry and Melancholia International Conference at The University of Stirling.
2011 - GuSH Grant to conduct research at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, in the Darwin archives held by the manuscript room and Darwin Correspondence Project. The Graduate Student Assembly, in collaboration with the Graduate Support Programs Office and the Provost’s Office, finance GuSH grants.
2011 - Graduate Student Association Grant to support my attendance at the Summer
2011 Poetry and Melancholia International Conference hosted by the University of Stirling. The Graduate Student Assembly, in collaboration with the Graduate Support Programs Office and the Provost’s Office, finance G.S.A Grants.
2008 Best Paper at the Practical Criticism Midwest Conference at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
2007 - Carl Mills/ Edward Miles Brown Prize for Outstanding Senior, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
2007 - Marshall, University of Cincinnati Commencement Ceremony, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006 - Taft Undergraduate Enrichment Award, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006 - Honorable Mention, “Ohio All-Media Art Competition,” Coburn Gallery at Ashland University, Ohio.
2006 - Student Globalization Grant, UC Institute for Global Studies and Affairs, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006 - Three Arts Scholarship, Three Arts Scholarship Fund, Inc., Lebanon, Ohio
2005-07 - Browning Essay Prize, McMicken College, Cincinnati, Ohio
2002-07 - Cincinnatus Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2002-03 - Wolfstein Scholarship, DAAP, Cincinnati, Ohio
Conference Presentations
2011 - Presented “Aesthetic Modernity and the Elgin Marbles” at the Poetry and Melancholia International Conference, The University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom.
2011 - Presented “Science as means of Teleological Conservatism in Captain Frederick Marryat’s Napoleonic Era Adventure Fiction” at the Romanticism & Evolution Conference, The University Of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
2010 - Chair and organizer for the “In Search of Lost Texts” panel hosted by Carnegie Mellon University’s Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium Committee featuring head of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati Deborah Meem and Associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Thora Brylowe.
2009 - Presented “The Medical Gaze: Intersections Between William Wordsworth's 'The Convict' with Sir Charles Bell's Expression: Its Anatomy and Philosophy” at the EGSA Mardi Gras Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2009 - Chair and panel organizer for “Narratology and the Dialectics of Confession in Joseph Conrad” at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900," University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
2008 - Presented “Writing as a Therapy for Mental Illness in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves” at the Practical Criticism Midwest Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
2008 - Presented “Liminality and Power in Bram Stoker’s Jewel of Seven Stars” at the English Graduate Organization Literature Colloquium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Service
2010-11 Committee Member Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium Committee Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Selected speakers to lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Arranged venue and publicity for speaking series.
2010-12 Illustrator Silver Tongue Times Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“The Silver Tongue” is a blog devoted to rhetorical criticism for the engaged citizen. The TST publishes reviews of important, current, or relevant pieces of public rhetoric, and discusses word choices and argument moves. <www.silvertonguetimes.com/>
2008-09 President English Graduate Organization (EGO) Cincinnati, Ohio
Elected to serve on the board of the English Graduate Organization. Organized meetings for EGO members. Attended monthly meetings of the Graduate Student Governance Association.
2007-09 Organizer EGO Literature Colloquium Cincinnati, Ohio
Began a biannual English Graduate Organization Literature Colloquium to showcase graduate critical scholarship. Assembled graduate presenters and faculty chairs into panels for each colloquium. Booked the venue, disseminated publicity, arranged funding, and coordinated helpers—especially to ensure refreshments and seating.
2008 Organizer EGO/ UES Literature Colloquium Cincinnati, Ohio
Coordinated a joint Colloquium with the English Graduate Organization and the Undergraduate English Society. While continuing to highlight student critical scholarship, this union encouraged academic interaction between undergraduate and graduate students. Assembled presenters and faculty chairs into panels, booked the venue, disseminated publicity, arranged funding, and coordinated assistants.
2006-07 Senior Gallery Intern Manifest Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio
Supervise the gallery during open hours. Composed ‘learning guides’ to accompany shows. Accomplished historical and theoretical research to compliment exhibition themes.