My research interests are based in studies of media culture, thing theory, and trauma studies in the context of British and Irish literature. I am interested in the ways that these studies form and inform the cultures that create, produce, and live with them; more specifically, I am interested in how media, objects, and trauma create narrative within the literature of these culture; narratives that reveal the authors cultural influences and how those narratives form our own engagement with these phenomena.
I locate my research in a very specific intersection between these three areas of interest, identifying ways in which media objects become “things” (rather than conduits) that can mnemonically bear the weight of cultural traumas. While my current monograph project is situated squarely within this intersection, I also find myself drawn to each of these areas of study individually.
Education
Ph.D. in English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2016
M.A. in Irish Studies, First-Class Honors, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2012
M.A. in English, Boise State University, 2008
Articles
“Fanny Price’s Social Cartography in Mansfield Park.” Forthcoming in Nineteenth Century Studies, vol. 29, Summer2018.
“The Death of a Gramophone in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 40, no. 2, 2017,pp. 132–146.
“Irish Laborers and the Preston Strike in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.” New Hibernia Review, vol.20, no. 4, 2016, pp. 113-127.
“Political Gramophonic Gendering in G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion.”Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 78-92.
“Amelia’s Manual Manipulations of the Major in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.” The Explicator, vol. 73, no. 2, 2015,pp. 153-56.
Book Chapter
“Gramophonic Strain: Residual Tension in Post-Civil War Irish Literature.” Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism, Eds. Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, and Julie McCormick Weng, forthcoming from Syracuse UP.
