Academic Publications “Sentimentalism’s Nation: Maria J. McIntosh and the Antebellum Contexts of “Southern” Fiction.” Fall 2013, Studies in American Fiction. “Dying Art: Form and Loss in Patti Smith’s Just Kids.” Book Review. Michigan Quarterly Review, 49:4 (Fall 2010). Sample Digital Publications “,” 3300 words. LARB. “.” 3000 words. LARB. “.” 2200 words. LARB. “,” 4800 words, ASAP/J. “,” 1600 words, Avidly “,” 2700 words, LARB “” and “,” 1200 words, Talking Points Memo “.” 3500 words, LARB. “,” 1800 words, LARB “,” 1800 words, LARB “ 3200 Words, LARB “,” 1800 words, LARB “,” 800 words, Avidly “,” 1600 words, Avidly “,” 2400 words, LARB “,” 1800 words, LARB “,” 1500 words, Avidly “,” 900 words, Avidly Sample Magazine Publications “Earth to Gwyneth.” Cover Story. Goop Magazine. Fall 2017. “For Gwyneth Paltrow, It’s all Good.” Cover Story. Self Magazine. April 2016. “The Empress is Back.” Cover Story. InStyle Magazine. December 2015. “The Power of Three: Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, and Elle Fanning.” InStyle Magazine, September 2015. Honors and Awards 2007 Kaplan Initiatives Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship 2007-08 Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship 2007-08 Alumnae Fellowship Recognition Award 2006-07 Northwestern Graduate Research Grant 2006-07 Weinberg Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005-06 Department of English Brady Fellow 2004-05 TriQuarterly Fellow 2004-06 Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Consultant 2003 Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Fellow Conference Papers and Invited Talks Critical Style and the Public Humanities
“Can Writing Change the World?” Colby College Symposium on the State of Writing. March 10, 2017. Invited Speaker “The Future of Criticism.” Keynote Speaker. Hendrix College Symposium on Critical Voice. February 26 2016. Invited talk. “Avid Criticism.” American Studies Faculty Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY. September 2015. Invited Talk. “Feeling Critical: Emotion and Identity in Academic Prose.” Modern Language Association Conference. Austin, TX. January 2016. “Why We Write and Where: Academic and Online Writing in the 21st Century.” English Department, Cal-Poly Pomona University, Pomona California. May 2014. Invited Talk. Teaching and Pedagogy Panels: “Writing Forms.” Seminar Co-leader. C19: The Association of 19th Century Americanists Biennial Conference. March 2018. “Writing Next: Next Gen PhD Seminar.” CUNY Graduate Center Writing Seminar. Invited Speaker. August 2017 “Teaching Racist Texts: Pedagogical Challenges.” Modern Literature Association Conference. Chicago, January 2014. “How to do Things with Twilight: Young Adult Fiction and the College Classroom.” Presenter and Roundtable Co-Organizer. Modern Literature Association Conference, Boston, January 2013. “Going Public: Pedagogy and Politics in Gender Studies.” Panel: “Public Engagement and the New Professoriate.” Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. December, 2006. “Teaching Hot Topics: The Role of the Educator in the Politicized Classroom.” Searle Center Teaching Forum. Northwestern University. April 2004. “The Role of the University: New Directions in Literary Studies.” Panel Organizer. Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. November 2003. Contemporary Culture and Criticism: “On Crabbiness.” Panel: Roundtable on the Work of Reading at the Present Time. ASAP Conference: Oakland, November 2017. Forthcoming “Petty Little Dystopias.” Symposium on the History of Genre. University of California, Irvine. Irvine, May 2017. Invited Talk. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time.” Prose Fiction Division Official Panel. MLA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2017. “Game of Thrones’ Hurt Girls and Girls.” Betalevel Errata Salon, Los Angeles, April 2015. Invited Talk. “Stories to Pass On: Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and the Critical Relation to African American Literature.” Prose Division Panel, “Attention Spans.” MLA Annual Conference, Vancouver 2015. Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies: