I research early modern English literature with a focus in the blue- and posthumanities. My current work focuses on the confluence of ocean travel, science, and early modern (proto-)science fictional narratives. I hope to trace the connections between these discourses and address the ways in which imaginary worlds in early modern literature reflect and refract the major social, political, and environmental changes of the period.

I hold an MA in English from the University of Oregon. My thesis, “Love Is in the Air: Reading Desire as Field in Hero and Leander” explores the dynamics of attraction and repulsion in Marlowe’s poem. I argue that the poem’s representations of hyperbolic, cross-ontological, and non-individuated desires reveal an ecological view of the emotions that challenges modern notions of self-experience and plays on rich tensions around gender, sexuality, and agency in early modern English culture. My other research interests involve queer theory, early modern drama, and comics studies.