#  CV 

 



**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)