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