CV
education
2013
Ph.D. English Literature. The Ohio State University
2008
M.A. English Literature. University of South Florida
2001
B.A. English Writing and History. Knox College
employment
2024–
Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018–2024
Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2015–2018
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2013–2015
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
publications
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2014
Guest Editor. Special Issue on Poetry and Narrative Theory, Narrative 22.2
ESSAYS
2024
“Matter, Rhetoric, and Ambient Form in Susan Howe’s Poetic Space.” Rethinking the North American Long Poem. Eds. Ridvan Askin and Julius Greve. Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth Century American Poetry. University of New Mexico Press
“Landscape Rhetoricity: Narrative, Ecology, and Topographic Form.” Narrative 32.3 (October 2024)
With Brian McHale. “Inscribed Sites: Verbal Art in Postmodern Built Environments.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art. Eds. Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, Cheryl Julia Lee. Routledge
2021
“Lithic Space-Time in Lyric: Narrating the Poetic Anthropocene.” Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism, edited by Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Marcussen, and David Rodriguez. Routledge
2020
“The Rhetoric of Emergence in Narrative.” Special Issue on Narrative Theory in the Anthropocene, Diegesis 29.2
“Narrative Disorientation and Beckett’s Bureaucratic Space.” Journal of Beckett Studies 29.2
2018
“The Middle, the East, the West of Erin: Narrative Disorientation and the Production of Space.” Special issue on Geographical Narrative, Frontiers of Narrative Studies 4.2
2014
“Preface: Special Issue on Poetry and Narrative Theory.” Narrative 22.2
“Narrative in Concrete / Concrete in Narrative: Visual Poetry and Narrative Theory.” Narrative 22.2
“‘You'll remember Mercury’: The Avant-Garde Worlds of Edwin Morgan’s Science-Fiction Poetry.” Science Fiction Studies 41.1
2009
“‘I Am Becoming an Island Dweller’: Postmodern Space-Time in J. M. Coetzee's Foe.” On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture, edited by Matt Hackler
REVIEWS
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
GENERAL AUDIENCE
2024
Rev. of A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If by Marie-Laure Ryan. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 142.1
2023
Rev. of New Materialism and Late Modernist Poetry by Joe Moffett. American Literary History 35.4
“Space-Time Dualism” and “Space-Time Engtanglementism” [Supplemental Material for Art Exhibition]. Moulding Nature: Discursive Struggles over the Environment. Färgfabriken Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
2017
“Zen and the Art of Unnatural Narrative.” Rev. of Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama by Jan Alber, Papers on Language and Literature 53.3
2016
“Lewis Grassic Gibbon.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
Rev. of The International Companion to Edwin Morgan edited by Alan Riach. The Bottle Imp: The Association for Scottish Literary Studies 20
2014
“Origins Top Ten: Scotland and the United Kingdom.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
2014
“Puppets, Pantomime, Play,” Rev. of A Mind-Bending Evening of Beckett, directed by Bob Flanagan. The Beckett Circle
invited talks
2024
“Juliana Spahr’s ‘Gentle Now Don’t Add to Heartache’.” Project Narrative Podcast.
2023
“Climate Research: UAE Universities Making an Impact to Address Climate Change.” Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2021
“Ambient Ecologies in the Postwar American Long Poem.” Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment. Basel, Switzerland
“Ecocriticism and Slow Violence.” Introduction to Literary Theory [Jana Fedtke], American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018
“Lithic Time, Lyric Space: Narrating the Anthropocene.” Department of English Seminar Series. American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2017
Keynote. “Aesthetic Time, Geologic Time: Narrative Anthropocenes.” Confronting the Narratives of the Anthropocene, Tampere, Finland
“Fictionality in the Anthropocene.” Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus, Denmark
“Lithic Time, Human Time, Lyric Space: Narrating the Anthropocene.” Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces Workshop, Ghent, Belgium
2014
“Scottish Independence and Scottish Literature.” Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH
conference
presentations
2024
“Emergence and Rhetorical Hybridity in Contemporary Opera.” International Conference on Narrative, Newcastle, UK
2023
“Material Agency in Rhetorical Narrative Theory.” Materiality of Narrative Dynamics Conference, Online
“Bacteria and Blood: Rhetorical Materiality in Lyric and Narrative.” International Conference on Narrative, Dallas, TX
2022
“Ontology and Rhetorical Agency in Narrative Ecologies.” International Conference on Narrative, Chichester, UK
2021
“Ambient Narratology: Rhetoric and Ecology in Narrative Space.” International Conference on Narrative, online
2020
“Landscape Narrativity: Ecology, Scale, and Topographic Form.” International Conference on Narrative, New Orleans, LA
2019
“Towards a Nonscalable Narratology.” International Conference on Narrative, Pamplona, Spain
2018
“Of Ice and Octopi: Nature Poetry and Unnatural Narrative.” International Conference on Narrative, Montreal, QC
2017
“Visual Archives: Scottish Concrete Poetry and Midcentury Transatlantic Networks.” World Congress of Scottish Literature, Vancouver, BC
“Lithic Time, Human Time, Lyric Space: Narrating the Poetic Anthropocene.” International Conference on Narrative, Lexington, KY
2015
“From Objective to Concrete: Black Mountain, Wild Hawthorn, and Midcentury Avant-Garde Networks.” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA
“‘The inexistent center of a formless place’: Mindless Space in Beckett’s Late Fiction.” Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, BC
2013
“Impossible Monuments: Imagined Space, Textual Space, and Political Power.” ASAP/5 Conference [Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present], Detroit, MI
2012
“Edwin Morgan and Russian Futurism on the Red Planet.” ASAP/4 Symposium, London, England
“Bureaucracy and the Aftermath of Beckett’s Closed Spaces.” Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland
“Narrative in Concrete / Concrete in Narrative: Visual Poetry and Narrative Theory.” International Conference on Narrative, Las Vegas, NV
2011
“Garden Space, Textual Space, and Ian Hamilton Finlay.” ASAP/3 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
“‘Molecular Reconstitution Is No Sinecure’: The World(s) of Science Fiction Poetry.” International Conference on Narrative, St. Louis, MO
2010
“Utopian Postmodernism and Contemporary Poetry.” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, BC
“Ghosts and Pilgrims: Narrative Space and Poetic Form in Heaney’s ‘Station Island.’” International Conference on Narrative, Cleveland, OH
2009
“‘Six Planes of Solid Bone’: The Dialogical Space of Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies.” International Conference on Narrative, Birmingham, England
2008
“‘I Am Becoming an Island Dweller’: Postmodern Narrative Space in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe.” The Louisiana Conference on Language and Literature, Lafayette, LA
2007
“Futurism and Wikis: Convergence and Conflict in Online Collaborative Space.” Computers and Writing: Virtual Urbanism, Detroit, MI
moderator
chair
2024
Narrative and Lyric Encounters. International Conference on Narrative, Newcastle, UK
2022
“Narrative Theory and Hybrid Teaching.” Pedagogy Lunch, International Conference on Narrative, Chichester, UK
Rhetorical Narrative I. International Conference on Narrative, Chichester, UK
2019
Ecology and Narrative II: Fictionality, Ethics, and Genre. Chair, International Conference on Narrative, Pamplona, Spain
2016
Ohio Energy, Ecology, Culture: A Humanities Roundtable. Ohio University, Athens, OH
2014
Poetry and Narrative Theory: Roundtable. International Conference on Narrative, Boston, MA
2013
Monuments and Commemoration. Chair, ASAP/5 Conference, Detroit, MI
2011
Nature, Environment, Art. Chair, ASAP/3 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Everyday Modernism. Chair, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, BC
fellowships
awards
grants
2019
Seed Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah
2017
Helm Fellowship. The Lilly Library, Indiana University
2016
Charles Abbott Fellowship. Humanities Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo
2012
Mary Lundie Stewart Vorman Fellowship. Department of English, The Ohio State University
2012
G. Michael Riley International Academic Award, Honorable Mention. College of Arts & Humanities, The Ohio State University
2012
Graduate Small Research Grant. College of Arts & Humanities, The Ohio State University
2012
Project Narrative Travel Grant. Department of English, The Ohio State University
2011
Mary Lundie Stewart Vorman Travel Grant. Department of English, The Ohio State University
2011
Graduate Small Research Grant. College of Arts & Humanities, The Ohio State University
2011
Project Narrative Travel Grant. Department of English, The Ohio State University
2010
Sacks Award for Best Graduate Essay in Narrative Studies, Honorable Mention. Department of English, The Ohio State University
2010
Project Narrative Travel Grant. Department of English, The Ohio State University
2009
Project Narrative Travel Grant. Department of English, The Ohio State University
teaching
experience
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Advanced Academic Writing
Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023 [Scheduled]
Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Autumn 2018
Creative Writing
Spring 2020
Environmental Humanities
Spring 2023
Introduction to Literature
Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2023 [Scheduled]
Literature into Film.
Fall 2022
Modern and Contemporary Theatre
Spring 2021
Modern British Novel: Collapsing Empires and Ecologies
Autumn 2019
Poetry and Poetics
Spring 2021
Public Speaking
Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019
Seminar in English: Environment and Literature
Autumn 2021
Senior Thesis Advising
Autumn 2019, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Writing about Literature
Spring 2023
OHIO UNIVERSITY
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
British and Irish Literature (1900 to Present): The Literature of Four Nations
Spring 2016, Autumn 2017
Critical Theory II: Contemporary Poetics and Spatial Theory [Graduate]
Spring 2017
Honors Tutorial: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018
Introduction to Fiction and Nonfiction
Autumn 2015, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017
Introduction to Poetry and Drama
Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2018
Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Spring 2017, Spring 2018
Science Fiction and Gender
Spring 2016
Women and Writing
Autumn 2015
Writing about the Environment
Spring 2018
Writing and Rhetoric I
Autumn 2016
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
SENIOR LECTURER
Contemporary Experimental Literature
May 2015
First-Year English Composition: Literature Focus
Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014
Introduction to Fiction
Spring 2015
Introduction to Poetry
Autumn 2013
Modern and Contemporary Scottish Narrative
Spring 2014
Twentieth-Century British Fiction
Autumn 2013
Writing for English Majors
Spring 2014, Autumn 2014
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSOCIATE
First-Year English Composition
Autumn 2008, Winter 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2010.
First-Year English Composition: Literature Focus
Autumn 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010
Introduction to Fiction
Spring 2013
Introduction to Poetry
Autumn 2012
Selected Works of British Literature: 1800 to the Present
Winter 2011
HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Freshman English I
Summer 2008
Freshman English II
Summer 2008
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSOCIATE
Composition I
Autumn 2006
Composition II
Spring, 2007, Summer 2007
service
JOURNALS/PROFESSIONAL
2023–
At-Large Member, Executive Committee, International Society for the Study of Narrative
2023
Organizer, Narrative Society Reading Group, International Society for the Study of Narrative
2023
Judge, Alan Nadel Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student, International Society for the Study of Narrative
2021–
Chair, Sustainability Committee, International Society for the Study of Narrative
2019–
Member, Sustainability Committee, International Society for the Study of Narrative
2012–2013
Graduate Assistant, International James Joyce Foundation
2011–2012
Program Assistant, Project Narrative
2011–2012
Assistant to the Editor, Narrative
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
2023
Organizer, Liberal Arts in the 21st Century Roundtable
2023
Organizer, Spring Humanities Writing Retreat
2022
Organizer, Fall Humanities Writing Retreat
2022
Faculty Mentor: CAS Undergraduate Research Grant [Aya Younis, Khansa Dijoo]
2021–
Coordinator, Humanities at AUS Working Group
2021-2022
Hiring Committee for Head of Department, English Department
2021
Faculty Promotion Committee, College of Arts and Sciences
2021
Presenter, “Graduate School: Application Letters, Personal Statements, & Writing Samples,” Department of English
2020
Hiring Committee, Department of English
2019
Hiring Committee, Department of English
2018–
Curriculum and Quality Committee, Department of English.
2018–
BA Review Task and Finishing Committee, Department of English.
2018–2019
Website Steering Committee, Department of English.
OHIO UNIVERSITY
2017
Faculty Coordinator for “Literary Space/Time: A Symposium”
2016
Coordinator for Visiting Speakers Thomas S. Davis, Marguerite Shaffer, Peter Shulman, and Mary Thomas
“Ohio Energy, Ecology, Culture: A Humanities Roundtable”
2015–2016
Undergraduate Committee, Department of English
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2014–2015
At-Large Representative for Associated Faculty, English Department Council
2014–2015
Associated Faculty Representative, Lectures and Events Committee, Department of English
2013
Coordinator for Visiting Speakers Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle, “Beckett’s Library and Manuscripts”
2011–2012
Research Assistant to James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English. Ohio State University
2008–2009
Participant. Writer’s Blog Pilot Program. First-Year Writing Program
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
2007–2008
Research Assistant to Laura Runge, Professor of English and Graduate Director. University of South Florida
2007–2008
Editor. Inklinks: University of South Florida English Graduate Newsletter
2007–2008
Consultant, University of South Florida Writing Center
2008
Assistant to Department of English Graduate Recruitment Committee
2007
Coordinator. English Graduate Student Association Fall Colloquium
2006
Essay Evaluator. Cognitive Level and Quality Writing Assessment. Office of Assessment