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Work Address

Harvard College Writing Program
One Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 

Education

Ph.D., English
2012
University of California, Irvine
Critical Theory Emphasis
Dissertation: Stigma in Shakespeare, directed by Julia Reinhard Lupton (co-chair), Victoria Silver (co-chair), and Ian Munro

M.A., English
2006 
University of California, Irvine

B.A., English 
2004
San Diego State University 

Employment

2014-15
Preceptor in Expository Writing
Harvard College Writing Program
Harvard University

2012-13
Writing Lecturer
Department of Criminal Justice
California State University, Long Beach

Publications

“Caliban’s Deformity: Stigma as Drama in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Under Submission.

“Shakespeare and Criminology.” Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 10.2 (2014): 97-114. 

“Hath Not a Jew a Nose? Or, the Danger of Deformity in Comedy.” New Readings of the Merchant of Venice. Ed. Horacio Sierra. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 31-61. 

“Interpretive Community.” The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 405.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards (Selected)

2014: Fuerbringer Summer Research Grant (Harvard)
2013: Grant from the College of Health and Human Services for Online Curriculum Development for Criminal Justice 304, “Criminological Theory” (CSU Long Beach)
2011: MLA Travel Grant
2011: Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant (UC Irvine)
2010: Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant (UC Irvine)
2009-10: Dissertation Year Fellowship (UC Irvine)
2007: Critical Theory Emphasis’ Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory Fellowship for Cartographies of the Theological-Political (UC Irvine)
2006-08: Research Assistantship for visiting scholar Stanley Fish (UC Irvine)
2005-06: Chancellor’s Fellowship (UC Irvine)
2003: Roberta Borkat Essay Contest Winner for “Milton, Satan, and Galileo: The Infernal Triad of Paradise Lost” (SDSU)

Invited Lectures

“You Must Re-Think This: What The Bard Tells Us About Broken Windows and Policing.” Washington DC: National Public Radio: Weekend in Washington, Nov. 20014.

“The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare’s Drama.” Harvard University: Renaissance Colloquium, Sept. 2014.

“Richard’s Deformities.” UC Irvine: English and Comparative Literature Graduate Dissertation Colloquium, Nov. 2011. 

Conference Papers (Selected)

“Stigma in Shakespeare.” Case Western Reserve University: Evil Incarnate: Manifestations of Villains and Villainy, July 2014.

“The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI: Abnormality, Villainy, Irony, Tragicomedy.” Shakespeare I. San Diego, CA: Renaissance Society of America Conference, April 2013.

“The Ugly Truth: Thersites and the Satire of the Poetomachia.” Early Modern Disabled Bodies and Cultural Discourses. Seattle, WA: Modern Language Association Convention, Jan. 2012. 

“Deforming Richard III in the Sixteenth Century: The Rhetoric of Disfigurement up to Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI.” Poetry and Disability. Claremont, CA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Nov. 2011.

“Shylock’s Nose.” UC Irvine: The Merchant of Venice: An Open Invitation?, Feb. 2011.

“The Advent and the Adventure: The Poetics of Imperfection in Revelation and The Faerie Queene.” Ends of Time: Apocalypses Ancient and Modern. Los Angeles, CA: Modern Language Association Convention, Jan. 2011.

“The Unnatural Age of Margaret: Antiquating the Dramatic Ontology of Richard III.” Shakespeare. Albuquerque, NM: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Oct. 2010.

“Anti-Figural Rhetoric and the Death of Physiognomy: Physical Deformity During the Philosophical Enlightenment.” Disability Studies and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture. Salt Lake City, UT: South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 35th Annual Meeting, Feb. 2010.

Teaching Experience (Selected)

2014-15 EXPOS 20 (Freshman Composition): “Why Shakespeare?” (7 Sections)

2012-14 CCJ 110 (Lower-Division): “Introduction to Criminal Justice Research, Writing, and Reasoning” (11 Sections)

2012-14 CCJ 304 (Upper-Division): “Criminological Theory” (Team Taught; 5 sections)

2011-12 WR 139 (Upper-Division): “Form and Deformity: Physical and Academic Norms and Abnormalities” (4 Sections)

Spring 2011 ENG 102B (Upper-Division): “Pastoral and the English Civil War” (TA for Victoria Silver)

Fall 2010 WR 139 (Upper-Division): “Milton’s Paradise Lost”

2008-09 ENG 28B (Lower-Division): “Introduction to Drama” (2 Sections)

Fall 2008 ENG 28A (Lower-Division): “Introduction to Verse”

Summer 2008 ENG 230 (Graduate): “Hamlet and Revenge Tragedy (TA for Victoria Silver)

Summer 2008 ENG 102A (Upper-Division): “The Renaissance Self” (TA for Victoria Silver)

Winter 2008 ENG 103 / REL STD 100 (Upper-Division): “God: A Literary Introduction” (TA for Jack Miles)