orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-3915Current Employment and Key Service Roles
University of Scranton English and Theatre Department
Assistant Professor of English
Co-Moderator, Mu Omicron Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Society
Faculty Advisor, MAD (Media Analysis & Discussion) Club
Studies in Comics
Coeditor
Sequentials
Editor Emerita
Education
PhD in English, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2020
Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
Specializations: British Literature, Comics and Visual Rhetoric, Digital Humanities
Dissertation: Thinking Periodically: Late-Victorian Serialized Fiction and the Digital Archive
Committee: Terry Harpold (chair), Sidney Dobrin, Pamela Gilbert, Hélène Huet
MLitt in Comics Studies with Distinction, University of Dundee (Dundee, Scotland), 2014
Thesis: The ‘War’ to Suit All Wars: Imperialism and International Conflict in Word and Image Adaptations of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds
Advisors: Chris Murray and Keith Williams
BA in English Literature, magna cum laude, University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), 2008
Thesis: The Visual Invisible: Re-visioning Wells’s Invisible Man in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Thesis Advisor: Mita Mahato
Recent Fellowships, Grants, and Awards (2021-Present)
- University of Scranton Community-Based Learning Fellowship, AY 2023-2024 ($2,000): Course Development, “ENLT 324 Climate Fiction”
- University of Scranton Jesuit Center Faculty Research Grant, Summer 2023 ($1300): “Teaching Literature of the Environment at a Jesuit Institution”
- University of Scranton Special Session Faculty Development Grant, Summer 2022 ($3,000): “Young Folks and Victorian Illustrated Periodicals”
- University of Scranton Faculty Internal Research Program Grant, Spring 2022 ($2,000): “Young Folks and Victorian Illustrated Periodicals”
Publications and Refereed Projects
Refereed Articles
- “Editor, Reader, and Value for Money in Young Folks.” Victorian Popular Fictions vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 80-100.
- “Drawn to Reconcile: The Queer Reparative Journey of ElfQuest.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 156-178. Coauthored.
- “Material Romance: Kidnapped in and out of Young Folks Paper.” Victorian Periodicals Review vol. 53, no. 2, 2020, pp. 183-213.
- “Togetherness with the Past: Literary Pedagogy and the Digital Archive.” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory no. 27, 2018, pp. 112-126.
- “Hysterical Reality: Weimar Germany and the Victorian Gothic in Mattotti and Kramsky’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.” The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics vol. 8, no. 6, 2017, n.p.
- “Static Action, Silent Sound: Translating Visual Techniques from Manga to Film in Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s AKIRA.” Studies in Comics vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, pp. 157-187.
Refereed Book/Collection Chapters
- “Scottish Stereotyping, Highlandism, and Stevenson in Young Folks Paper,” The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals, edited by Kristine Moruzi, Beth Rodgers, and Michelle Smith, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp. 382-400.
- “Wars of the Worlds: H.G. Wells’s Ekphrastic Style in Word and Image.” Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery, edited by Sophie Aymes, Jan Baetens, Chris Murray, and Keith Williams, Brill, 2019, pp. 100-114.
Refereed Digital Projects
- “The (De)collected War of the Worlds.” Reviewed by Amanda Visconti in Reviews in Digital Humanities vol. 1 no. 3, 2020, n.p.
Reviews, Interviews, and Shorter Scholarly Works
- Entries: “Narration,” “Narrative,” and “Trope.” Key Terms in Comics Studies, edited by Simon Grennan, Erin La Cour, and Rik Spanjers. Palgrave, 2022, pp. 214-15 and 326.
- Editorial. Studies in Comics vol. 11 no. 2, 2020, pp. 237-243. Coauthored with Julia Round and Chris Murray.
- Introduction. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies vol. 11, no. 3, 2020, n.p. Coauthored with Jaquelin Elliott and Megan Fowler.
- “Material Comics by Mita Mahato: A Summary.” ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies vol. 11, no. 3, 2020, n.p.
- Editorial. Studies in Comics vol. 10, no. 2, 2019, pp. 185-187.
- “Review: Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994 to 1997,”Studies in Comics vol. 8, no. 1, 2017, pp. 103-107.
- Editorial. Studies in Comics vol. 7, no. 1, July 2016, pp. 3-6.
- “‘Making It Mine’: An Interview with Comics Creator Dan McDaid,” Studies in Comics vol. 7, no. 1, 2016, pp. 169-187.
Creative Works
- “The action scenes were really cool…” (cartoon with artist Letty Wilson), Studies in Comics vol. 8, no. 1, 2017, p. 123.
- “The Invisible Cat” (comic with artist Norrie Millar), Time & Space: H.G. Wells Comic Anthology. UniVerse Publishing and Ink Pot Studios, 2017, pp. 2-6.
- “Brunch Punk Love” in “inFESTation,” Punknews.org, 11-12 November 2016, n.p.
Editorship of Journal Issues and Collections
- Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies. Intellect, Ltd., 2024. Coedited with Chris Murray and Julia Round.
- Comics: A Companion. Peter Lang, TBA. Coedited with Aidan Diamond and Lauranne Poharec. (under contract)
- “ImageTech: Comics and Materiality,” ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies vol. 11, no. 3, 2020, n.p. Coedited with Jaquelin Elliott and Megan Fowler.
Conference Papers, Talks, and Projects
Invited Talks
- Roundtable Presentation: “On Darwin, Degeneration, and Dorian Gray,” University of Scranton Faculty Research Seminar Series’ Darwin Day 2024, February 23 (Scranton, PA)
- Roundtable Presentation: “Climate Fiction as Future History,” University of Scranton Faculty Research Seminar Series’ Earth Day 2023, 21 April (Scranton, PA)
- Seminar Presentation: “Female Isolation in Fairy Tales by Angela Carter and Emily Carroll,” University of Scranton Faculty Research Seminar Series, 29 April 2022 (Scranton, PA)
- Roundtable Presentation: “Periodical Fiction as Always-Imagetext,” 2021 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels special panel “The Legacy of Don Ault,” 30 May (virtual)
- Roundtable Presentation: “Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Novel v. Film,” 2018 Florida Museum of Natural History Creative B Movie Series: Dracula, 13 July (Gainesville, Florida)
- Keynote Address: “‘It’s Cold Where I am and So Lonely’: Female Isolation in Fairy Tales by Angela Carter and Emily Carroll,” 2018 University of Florida Undergraduate English Conference, 17 March (Gainesville, Florida)
Conference Papers
2024
- “Geologic Time, Climate Anxiety, and Hope in Environmental Literature Classrooms,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, 9 March (Boston, MA)
- “Multimodal Approaches in the Undergraduate Victorian Studies Classroom,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, 7 March (Boston, MA)
2023
- “Teaching Literature of the Environment at a Jesuit Institution,” Joint Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), 12 July (Portland, OR)
- “Digital, Archival, and/or Collaborative Approaches in the Victorian Studies Classroom,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference, 27 June (virtual)
2022
- “Just Late-Victorian Voices in the (Partially-)Digital Classroom,” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, 30 September (Bethlehem, PA)
- “The Diseased Victorian Masculine Adventure Narrative in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as Illustrated by Matt Kish,” Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, 13 July (Loughborough, England) [accepted and scheduled but unable to attend due to illness]
- “Marvel Comics and the Ethics of Responding to 9/11,” Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics Conference and the International Bande Dessinée Society, 30 June (Dublin, Ireland)
2021
- “Detection Drawn: Taxonomizing Illustrated Periodical Detective Stories,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, 11 September (virtual)
- “Imageless Imagetext: Illustration Excluded from Collected Late-Victorian Periodical Fiction,” Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, 14 July (virtual)
- “Thinking Periodically: Victorian Serialized Fiction and the Accessible Digital ‘Edition’,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, 21 May (virtual)
2020
- “Making Victorian Serialized Fiction Accessible through the Digital ‘Edition,'” Modern Language Association Convention, 12 January (Seattle, Washington)
- “Comics ARchitected: Translation Augmentation with Structural Integrity,” Modern Language Association Convention, 12 January (Seattle, Washington)
2019
- “The (De)collected War of the Worlds: Victorian Serialized Fiction and the Digital ‘Edition,'” North American Victorian Studies Conference, 19 October (Columbus, Ohio)
- “Reclaiming the ‘Absent Context’ of Late-Victorian Serialized Fiction,” Modern Language Association Convention (TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography Forum), 6 January (Chicago, Illinois)
2018
- “‘Scotland as Though It Were a Foreign Country’: Victorians Looking Northward in Stevenson’s Kidnapped,” North American Victorian Studies Conference, 12 October (St. Petersburg, Florida)
- “Elfqueer: Following the Posthuman Lodestone of ElfQuest” (co-authored), International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, 28 June (Bournemouth, England)
- “Margot’s (Virtual) Room: Emily Carroll’s Hypercomic in VR,” University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, 7 April (Gainesville, Florida)
2017
- “Tracing New Possibilities for Research and Collaboration” (roundtable with Melissa Bianchi, Kira Bohunicky, Emily Brooks, and Chloe Milligan), Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory Conference, 4 November (Orlando, Florida)
- “Redefining ‘Visual Criticism’ in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as Illustrated by Matt Kish,” University of Florida English Graduate Organization Conference, 21 October (Gainesville, Florida)
- “‘Don’t Linger in the Woods’: Spaces of Tension in Fairy Tales by Angela Carter and Emily Carroll,” University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, 8 April (Gainesville, Florida)
2016
- “‘Terrifyingly Substantiated’: Climate Fiction as Near-Future History,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, 4 November (Jacksonville, Florida) and University of Florida English Graduate Organization Conference, 21 October (Gainesville, Florida)
- “Hysterical Reality: Weimar Germany and the Victorian Gothic in Mattotti and Kramsky’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, 11 July (Manchester, England)
- “‘Expressing Myself Wordlessly’: Intertextual Self-Portraiture in David Small’s Stitches: A Memoir,” Graphic Medicine Conference, 8 July (Dundee, Scotland)
2015
- “Intangible Horrors: Wells’s Invisible Man Seen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” University of Florida English Graduate Organization Conference, 23 October (Gainesville, Florida)
2014
- “Wars of the Worlds: Visualising H. G. Wells’s Novel in Word and Image,” International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference, 15 August (Dundee, Scotland)
- “Visualising Otherness: Monsters and the Monstrous Crossing Borders between Literature and Comics,” University of Dundee School of Humanities Postgraduate Conference, 15 May (Dundee, Scotland)
- “Active and Audible: Translating and Adapting Visual Techniques from Manga to Anime in Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s AKIRA,” Dundee Comics Expo and Dee-Con, 5 April (Dundee, Scotland)
Digital and Multimedia Projects (not refereed)
- “Margot’s (Virtual) Room“: virtual reality comics project for Tilt Brush (2018)
- “Comics ARchitected“: augmented reality project for Aurasma (see Trace Augmented Reality Criticisms) (2017)
Less Recent Fellowships, Grants, and Awards (2014-2020)
- University of Florida Kirkland Dissertation Award, 2019-2020 ($20,000)
- University of Florida Graduate School Doctoral Research Travel Award, 2018 ($6000)
- University of Florida Anderson Scholar Award Faculty Honoree, 2018
- University of Florida Graduate Student Council Travel Grant, 2018 & 2019
- University of Florida Champions for Change Award (with Imagining Climate Change), 2016
- University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, 2016
- University of Florida Graduate School Fellowship (now Graduate School Preeminence Award), 2015-2019 ($80,000)
- Grant Morrison Prize for Comics Studies, 2014
Less Recent Scholarly Employment, Leadership, and Service Roles
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida Department of English (2016-2020; see University of Florida teaching page)
- Graduate Research Assistant, Imagining Climate Change (2015-16; Volunteer, 2016-2020)
- President, University of Florida Graduate Comics Organization (2017-18; Vice President, 2016-2017; Member, 2015-2016 and 2018-2020)
- Editorial Collective Member, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies (2015−2020)
- Research Centre Fellow, Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (2014)
- Copy Editor and Proofreader, Trace: A Journal of Writing, Media, and Ecology (2018−2020)
Select Conference and Event Organization
- University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels (Chief Organizer, 2018; Co-Organizer, 2017; Organizational Team, 2015, 2016, 2019)
- North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (Organizational Team, 2018; Staff, 2019)
- University of Dundee School of Humanities Postgraduate Conference (Organizational Team, 2014)
- International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Staff, 2014, 2018)
Professional Affiliations
- Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
- History of the Printed Image Network
- North American Victorian Studies Association
- Northeast Modern Language Association
- Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
- Victorian Popular Fiction Association
