{"id":31,"date":"2019-04-19T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/peak\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:39:20","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/peak\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University, 2010<br \/>\nM.A., Department of English, Temple University, 2007<br \/>\nB.A., summa cum laude with distinction in English, Rosemont College, 2002<\/p>\n<p>M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Temple University, 2022<br \/>\nFellow, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, 2018-2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Temple University, Intellectual Heritage Program<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor of Instruction, 2024-present<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor of Instruction, 2017-2024<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor of Instruction, 2011-2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CLINICAL EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mental Health Technician, St. Luke&#8217;s Penn Foundation, 2022-2024<\/li>\n<li>Counseling Intern, The Therapy Group, 2021-2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peer-reviewed publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5325\/intelitestud.21.4.issue-4\">That Flexible Flageolet\u201d: Music, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism in George Du Maurier\u2019s <em>Trilby<\/em><\/a>.\u201d <em>Interdisciplinary Literary Studies <\/em>21.4 (2019), 476-492.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRe-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and \u2018the Jew\u2019 in <em>The Way We Live <\/em><em>Now<\/em>.\u201d <em>The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope.<\/em> Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse,\u00a0Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Routledge, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu\/10.1017\/S1060150315000716\">The Condition of Music in Victorian Scholarship<\/a>.\u201d <em>Victorian Literature and Culture <\/em>44 (2016), 423-437.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu\/10.1017\/S1060150314000631\">The Chinese Language and the<em> Saturday Review<\/em>: A Case Study in Sinophobia\u2019s Scholarly Roots<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<em>Victorian Literature and Culture <\/em>43.2 (2015), 431-444.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.temple.edu\/article\/562639\">Servants and the Victorian Sensation Novel<\/a>.\u201d <em>SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 <\/em>54.4\u00a0(Autumn 2014), 835-851.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.temple.edu\/article\/595876\">Music and New Woman Aesthetics in Mona Caird\u2019s <em>The Daughters of Danaus<\/em><\/a>.\u201d <em>Victorian Review <\/em>40.1 (Spring 2014), 135-154.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\u201cInoculate Against Cheating and Plagiarism with Tech-Free Reading <span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">Quizzes.\u201d <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">The Teaching Professor <\/i><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">(March 2024).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\u201cCourage and Consistency as Keys to Student Engagement.\u201d <i>The Teaching <\/i><i style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">Professor <\/i><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">(November 2023).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOscar Wilde in Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Exhibition.\u201d <em>Victorian Periodicals Review <\/em>48.2\u00a0(Summer 2015), 278-280.<\/p>\n<p>Review of <em>The Bront<\/em><em>\u00eb<\/em><em>s in the World of the Arts<\/em>, ed. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells. <em>Women\u2019s Writing\u00a0<\/em>20.3 (2013), 417-419.<\/p>\n<p>Review of Michelle Fillion\u2019s <em>Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster<\/em>. <em>Studies in the Novel <\/em>44.2 (Summer 2012), 248-250.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Editions.\u201d Review of new editions and anthologies<em> (New Grub Street, Workers in the Dawn,\u00a0<\/em><em>Enchanted Ideologies<\/em>, <em>The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon<\/em>, and <em>A Defense of Uranian Love<\/em>). <em>English <\/em><em>Literature in Transition<\/em> 54.4 (2011), 548-551.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDance in the Nineteenth Century.\u201d Review of Cheryl A. Wilson\u2019s <em>Literature and Dance in\u00a0<\/em><em>Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman.<\/em> <em>English Literature in Transition<\/em> 53:4 (2010), 498-500.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INVITED TALKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear of Equality: Music and the Body at the Fin de Si\u00e8cle.\u201d The Prose Club Lecture Series, Rosemont College, 14 May 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panels Organized<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Post-Secular Turn in Victorian Studies (Part I).\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Post-Secular Turn in Victorian Studies (Part II).\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers Presented<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the Way: Christianity and Disability in George MacDonald\u2019s <em>Sir Gibbie<\/em>.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 March 2026.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\u201cSex and the Other: Changing Representations of POC in Romance Novels by White\u00a0<span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">Authors.\u201d Northeast Popular Culture Association, virtual, October 20-<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">22, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMaking Strangers: Sinophobia, Irrationality, and Categorization.\u201d Tracing Xenophobia and\u00a0Racism in the Era of COVID-19, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, October 28,\u00a02020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simone de Beauvoir in the Classroom: Analytic and Existential Approaches.&#8221; Women in Core Conference, Association of Core Texts and Courses, Temple University, 16-17 March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Classic Case of Projection: Victorian Fears and Chinese Music.\u201d New York Conference on\u00a0Asian Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 22-23 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Canon By and For the Working Class: Reassessing the Role of Music Periodicals in the\u00a0English Musical Renaissance.\u201d Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of\u00a0Delaware, 12-13 September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReflecting and Diffusing Binaries: Vernon Lee\u2019s Invention of Meme Theory and the Revision of\u00a0History.\u201d British Women Writers Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY), 19-21 June\u00a02014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sound of \u2018That Flexible Flageolet\u2019: Homophobia in George Du Maurier\u2019s <em>Trilby.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0Northeast Modern Language Association, Susquehanna University, 3-6 April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuestioning the Origins of British Sinophobia.\u201d Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies,\u00a0University of Delaware, 1-3 November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018That Terrible Language\u2019: Chinese, Typewriters, and Late-Victorian Sinophobia.\u201d North\u00a0American Victorian Studies Association, University of Southern California Dornsife, 23-27\u00a0October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology, Imperialism, and Victorian Perceptions of China.\u201d New York Conference on\u00a0Asian Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), 27-28 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInventing Inscrutability: The Chinese Language in the <em>Saturday Review<\/em>.\u201d Research Society for\u00a0Victorian Periodicals, University of Texas at Austin, 14-15 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListening to Vernon Lee.\u201d Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Pennsylvania State\u00a0University at Abington, 26-27 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Troubled Song of Sappho: Writing Sappho as Musician, Not Poet.\u201d Victorians Institute\u00a0Conference, Converse College, 16-17 October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrollope\u2019s Anti-Anti-Semitism.\u201d <em>Trollope and Gender<\/em>, University of Exeter, 17-19 July 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAMPLE COURSES TAUGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Composition<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Writing<\/li>\n<li>College Composition<\/li>\n<li>Developmental Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Lower-level literature<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to English Studies<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Literature<\/li>\n<li>Survey of British Literature, Medieval to 1660<\/li>\n<li>Survey of British Literature, 1660-1900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Upper-level literature<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English Romanticism<\/li>\n<li>Feminist Theory<\/li>\n<li>Senior Seminar: Orientalism, Post-Colonialism, and the British Empire<\/li>\n<li>Senior Seminar: Representations of Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Humanities seminars<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intellectual Heritage Humanities Seminar I and II<\/li>\n<li>Honors\u00a0Intellectual Heritage Humanities Seminar I and II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Online \/ hybrid courses\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critical Approaches to Literary Theory<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Heritage Humanities Seminar I and II<\/li>\n<li>Transatlantic Modernism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>AWARDS AND HONORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CLA Teaching Award (non-tenure-track category), College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Violet B. Ketels Award for Excellence in Teaching and Extraordinary Service to the Intellectual\u00a0Heritage Program, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Merit Award for Excellence in Research, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2017, 2018, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Merit Award for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2016, 2019, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Teaching materials featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/studiesinthenovel.org\/content\/digital-humanities-novel\"><em>Digital Humanities and the Novel<\/em><\/a>, ed. Kathryn Huie Harrison,\u00a0website of <em>Studies in the Novel<\/em>, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2013,\u00a02014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Teaching with Technology Fellow, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Temple\u00a0University, 2013, 2016, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with ESL Students\u201d Award, jointly sponsored by the Intellectual Heritage Program\u00a0and the First-Year Writing Program, Temple University, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Travel and Research Award, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2012, 2013,\u00a02014<\/p>\n<p>Diamond Peer Teaching Program Mentor Award, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate\u00a0Studies, Temple University, 2012, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Newton Prize for Best Essay in Pre-20th Century Literature, Department of English, Temple\u00a0University, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding Teacher Award, First-Year Writing Program, Temple University, 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>SERVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TO THE PROFESSION<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Referee for <em>Christianity &amp; Literature<\/em>, <em>Interdisciplinary Literary Studies<\/em>, <em>Journal of Victorian Culture<\/em>, <em>Studies in the Novel<\/em>, <em>Victorian Review<\/em>, and Oxford University Press<em> \u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Co-organizer, Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Editorial board, <em>Interdisciplinary Literary Studies<\/em>, Pennsylvania State University, 2013-present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TO THE UNIVERSITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editor, <em>Temple University Faculty Herald<\/em>, 2020-2022<\/li>\n<li>Faculty judge, Livingstone Undergraduate Research Awards, Temple University Libraries, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Faculty advisor, <em>Maneto <\/em>(Temple University undergraduate open-access research journal),<\/li>\n<li>2016-2019<\/li>\n<li>Editorial board, <em>Temple University Faculty Herald<\/em>, 2013-2015<\/li>\n<li>NTT Merit Award committee, Temple University, 2013-2015<\/li>\n<li>Student Award selection committee, Temple University, 2013-2014<\/li>\n<li>Representative Senator, Temple University Faculty Senate, 2012-2016, 2017-2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TO THE COLLEGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Member, Teaching \/ Instructional Promotion Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2025-2028<\/li>\n<li>Dean search committee, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2015-2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TO THE DEPARTMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chair, Promotions Committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Online Coordinator, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Member, Promotions Committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Member, Curriculum committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2018, 2023-2025<\/li>\n<li>Faculty search committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Faculty search committee, Romantic literature, Temple University, 2007-2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TO THE COMMUNITY RELATING TO PROFESSIONS <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creator and leader, Children\u2019s Writing Group, Warminster Public Library, Warminster, PA, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MEMBERSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>British Women Writers Association, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Dickens Society, George MacDonald Society, Modern Language Association, North American Victorian Studies Association, Northeast Modern Language Association, Northeast Victorian Studies Association<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University, 2010 M.A., Department of English, Temple University, 2007 B.A., summa cum laude with distinction in English, Rosemont College, 2002 M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Temple University, 2022 Fellow, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, 2018-2020 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Temple University, Intellectual Heritage Program Professor of Instruction, 2024-present Associate Professor of Instruction, 2017-2024 Assistant&hellip; 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