KRISTIN M. DISTEL
CURRICULUM VITA
Ohio University | Alden Library 236-A | Athens, OH 45701
kristinmdistel[at]gmail[dot]com | www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-distel-phd/
Education:
PH.D. LITERATURE; OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, OH, October 2020.
MA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, TOLEDO, OH, 2005. HONORS GRADUATE.
BA ENGLISH (LITERATURE), CREATIVE WRITING MINOR; ASHLAND UNIVERSITY, ASHLAND, OH, 2003. MAGNA CUM LAUDE. AA(SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE); TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, FREMONT, OH, 2000. SUMMA CUM LAUDE.
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE:
OHIO UNIVERSITY (Athens, OH)
The OHIO State UNIVERSITY, Agricultural Technical Institute (Wooster, OH)
TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Fremont, OH)
TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Fremont, OH)
CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS:
Book Chapter: “The Shame Would Be Wholly Hers”: Gendered Guilt and Shame in Haywood’s Love in Excess and The Masqueraders; or, Fatal Curiosity
Chapter will appear in edited collection, A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer, edited by Aleksondra Hultquist and Chris Mounsey. Forthcoming 2020, Cambridge University Press.
Contributor (2018-), The Year’s Work in English Studies
Published by Oxford University Press. Area of focus: eighteenth-century drama
Book Chapter: “I will not be thus constrained”: Domestic Power, Shame, and Agency in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
Chapter will appear in edited collection, Domesticity in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Karen Lipsedge. Forthcoming 2020, Routledge.
Book Chapter: “She seemed fitted for any stage”: Flora’s Performative Interventions in Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm
Chapter will appear in edited collection, ‘Have Women a Sense of Humour?’: Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction, edited by Nick Turner and Nicola Darwood. 2020, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Journal Article: “‘Nothing ever dies’: Rememory, Trauma, and Place in Beloved and Paradise”
Article appears in MidAmerica, Issue XLV, 2019, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.
Book Chapter: “‘Free! Body and Soul Free!’: The Docile Female Body in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour’”
Chapter appears in New Women's Writing: Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy. 2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Article: “‘Free! Body and Soul Free!’: The Docile Female Body in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour’”
Article appears in Watermark, Issue 10, 2016, California State University at Long Beach.
Book Chapter: “Are you sure she was your sister?’: Sororal Love and Maternal Failure in Toni Morrison's Paradise"
Chapter appears in Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. July 2017, Demeter Press.
Book Chapter: "'Beneath an undivided sky’: Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in Theodore Roethke’s ‘Interlude’”
Chapter will appear in A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke. Forthcoming 2020.
Book Chapter: “The Red Death and Romeo: Poe’s ‘Magnificent Revels’ as a Re-Vision of the Capulet Masquerade”
Chapter will appear in edited collection, Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Essays. Forthcoming 2020, McFarland.
Book Chapter: “Restoring broken bodies: The Ekphrastic Poetry of Larry Levis and Natasha Trethewey”
Chapter appears in Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Book Chapter: “‘Teach the paints to speak’: Mythology and the Muse in the Ekphrastic Poems of Mather Byles and Phillis Wheatley”
Chapter appears in Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Book Chapter: “‘The meaning of charity’: Misconduct and Altruism in Arrested Development”
Chapter appears in A State of Arrested Development: Critical Essays on the Innovative Television Comedy. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015.
Book Chapter: “Gendered Travel and Quiescence in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”
Chapter appears in Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
CO-EDITED VOLUME:
Sherwood Anderson, The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems (1921).
Published by Hastings College Press, 2019. Co-edited with Aaron C. Babcock.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
OHIO UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOW/TEACHING ASSISTANT/Instructor; AUGUST 2014-PRESENT
TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH; JUNE 2005-AUGUST 2014
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH; AUGUST 2009-MAY 2012
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH; AUGUST 2005-JUNE 2008
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, TOLEDO OH: GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, AUGUST 2003-MAY 2005
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Forms of Early Modern Trauma: Making Legible Historical Suffering
Burneys and Stuff (The Burney Society)
In the Shadow of Winesburg: Sherwood Anderson’s The Triumph of the Egg
Eliza Haywood: 300 Years of Love in Excess
1719 and the 'Rise' of the Novel
Placing the Burneys
Sherwood Anderson, Poets, and Midwestern Masculinities
Rememory and Place in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Home Is Where the Start Is: Interrogating Eighteenth-Century Domesticity
Narrative Work of Fertility
Genre Crossing in Midwestern Literature
The Familiar and the Strange in the Eighteenth Century
Gender, Androgyny, and the Inscrutable Female Body in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
International Virginia Woolf Society
Rethinking the Public Perception of Midwestern Literature and Midwestern Journals
"'She flew to me for protection': Networks, Agency, and Community in Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing"
Violent Bodies: Graduate Student Conference
Cross-Genre Creative Writing Craft Seminar
The Cultural Heritage of the Midwest: A Symposium
Lovers, Madmen And Poets: Shakespeare And The Imaginary, Supernatural, And Divine
“Many straunge and horrible events” – Omens And Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Retirement, Reappraisal, and Renewal in the Eighteenth Century
Ekphrasis in American Poetry
English Eighteenth-Century Literature
Robert Frost: Sentimentality and Being Versed in Country Things
Reconsidering Macbeth
Forty-Seventh Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
Festivals and Faires: Sociology in Literature
Children and Childhood in the Humanities
Panoramas and Prospects
Gender and Medieval Studies
Travel and Truth
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
CHAIRED PANELS/ROUNDTABLES
JOB MARKET CRASH COURSE: FIVE WAYS TO MAKE A GREAT IMPRESSION
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; March 2019
MODELS OF SOLIDARITY IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; March 2018
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Essay: “SCALDING MY FACE IN MY FATHER'S APARTMENT”
Trampset Literary Journal, Spring 2021
Essay: “OUT, FATHER”
Complete Sentence Literary Journal, Spring 2021
POEM: “EPHEMERAL DESCANT”
JuxtaProse Magazine, Summer 2018
POEM: “INSIDE MY FATHER’S STOPPED HEART”
Glass: A Journal of Poetry, December 2016
POEMS: "SMALL ORACLE” and “FATA MORGANA”
The Game Show, published by the EASE Gallery/the Greater Columbus Arts Council
Featured in a multimedia art installation at the EASE Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), February 2016
POEMS: "BEULAH BEACH TABERNACLE” and “HEIRLOOM”
Rag Queen Periodical, February/March 2016
POEMS: "THE PRICE OF SKIN AND BLOOD," “UNMARKED GRAVE,” “FIRST LESSONS,” “ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE,” and “DID NOT HAPPEN IN KENTUCKY”
Lehigh Valley Vanguard, July-October 2015
POEMS: "HERITAGE", "SALT", "CANDLE", "EVENSONG", "LOST IN THE GRAVEYARD" and "SIATE IMMORTALE"
The Stockholm Review of Literature. Issue #8, Spring 2015
POEM: “STILL”
The Broken Plate. Issue: Spring 2015
POEM: “INTERMINABLE DAY—CLYDE, OHIO”
Flyover Country Review. Issue: July 2014
POEMS: “AI, AI” and “BOOK OF FIRE”
The Minetta Review. Issue: Spring 2014
POEMS: “VESTAL,” “SCALA SANCTA,” “FOLLOWING THE ARNO,” and “TAKE ME IN”
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics. Issue: Autumn 2013
POEM: “THE SOUND OF STONE”
DIN Magazine. Issue 4, 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
REVIEW OF ALLBERY, DEBRA. WALKING DISTANCE.
Con•text. Issue: Summer 2015
EDITORSHIPS AND SERVICE
Editorships:
o Contributing Editor (Fall 2018-), Cosmologics: A Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture,
published by Harvard Divinity School
o Editor-in-Chief (Spring 2018-2019), Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
o Assistant Editor (2016-Spring 2018), Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
o Associate Editor (2015-2016), Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
o Associate Editor (2016-2019), Ohio University Arts and Sciences Forum and newsletter
o Assistant Editor (2015-present), Quarter after Eight literary magazine
o Poetry Editor (2014-present), The Critical Pass Review
Chair/Co-Chair Positions:
o Chair (Spring 2018-2019), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Student Caucus
o Co-chair (2017-Spring 2018), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Student Caucus
Volunteer Work:
o Assistant Coordinator (Spring 2018), Charles W. Chesnutt Graduate Reading Series at Ohio University
o Reader (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) for New Ohio Review, Ohio University
Committees:
Residencies:
o Poetry residency with Ashland University (Summer 2015), Paris, France
o Poet-in-Residence (Fall 2015), Lehigh Valley Vanguard
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
BARBARA E. ALLUSHUSKI GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
LITERARY FESTIVAL POETRY COMPETITION, FIRST PLACE
EARL C. AND MARGARET S. SHIVELY SCHOLARSHIP
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD
EMILY TICE AWARD NOMINATIONS
BEST OF THE NET NOMINATION
NEILA AND CANDADAI SESHACHARI FACULTY CONVENTION TRAVEL GRANT
CHALLENGE GRANT
HILDA A. BRETZLAFF ENDOWMENT FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
East Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
The Toni Morrison Society
The Burney Society
National Women’s Studies Association
CURRICULUM VITA
Ohio University | Alden Library 236-A | Athens, OH 45701
kristinmdistel[at]gmail[dot]com | www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-distel-phd/
Education:
PH.D. LITERATURE; OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, OH, October 2020.
- Dissertation: Gendered Shame, Female Subjectivity, and the Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
MA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, TOLEDO, OH, 2005. HONORS GRADUATE.
BA ENGLISH (LITERATURE), CREATIVE WRITING MINOR; ASHLAND UNIVERSITY, ASHLAND, OH, 2003. MAGNA CUM LAUDE. AA(SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE); TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, FREMONT, OH, 2000. SUMMA CUM LAUDE.
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE:
OHIO UNIVERSITY (Athens, OH)
- Position: Assistant Director of Academic Coaching and First-Generation Student Success
- Duties:
- Overseeing a team of undergraduate and graduate academic coaches who assist at-risk students with study skills, notetaking, time management, and organizational skills
- Helping first-generation students navigate university life and access resources to support their success
- Dates: December 2021-present
The OHIO State UNIVERSITY, Agricultural Technical Institute (Wooster, OH)
- Position: Student Success Advisor
- Duties:
- Assisting students (self-identified as first-generation, economically disadvantaged, and/or living with a disability) in selecting courses to meet program/graduation requirements and personal goals, accessing campus services, and locating internships
- Tracking students’ academic progress
- Documenting appointments, retention, and related data to retain grant-based funding
- Planning and hosting academic and social campus events
- Communicating with students in-person and electronically about appointments, deadlines, and degree requirements
- Connecting at-risk students with tutoring, counseling, and other support systems
- Dates: August 2008-August 2009
TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Fremont, OH)
- Position: Academic Advisor
- Duties:
- Meeting with students to discuss academic and career goals, potential majors/minors/certificates, and transfer plans
- Helping students, mostly first-generation, to select courses and build schedules
- Connecting students with appropriate campus resources, including financial aid, registration, tutoring, and success services
- Dates: 2005-2008
TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Fremont, OH)
- Position: Assistant to the Coordinator of Learning Support Services
- Duties:
- Coordinating the College’s peer tutoring program
- Facilitating notetaking, tutoring, and testing services accommodations for students with disabilities
- Converting textbooks and course materials for students with disabilities
- Conducting in-class demonstrations about campus tutoring resources
- Proctoring examinations
- Working closely with faculty to determine students’ needs and help ensure academic success
- Administrative assistant duties
- Dates: October 2006-October 2007
CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS:
Book Chapter: “The Shame Would Be Wholly Hers”: Gendered Guilt and Shame in Haywood’s Love in Excess and The Masqueraders; or, Fatal Curiosity
Chapter will appear in edited collection, A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer, edited by Aleksondra Hultquist and Chris Mounsey. Forthcoming 2020, Cambridge University Press.
Contributor (2018-), The Year’s Work in English Studies
Published by Oxford University Press. Area of focus: eighteenth-century drama
Book Chapter: “I will not be thus constrained”: Domestic Power, Shame, and Agency in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
Chapter will appear in edited collection, Domesticity in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Karen Lipsedge. Forthcoming 2020, Routledge.
Book Chapter: “She seemed fitted for any stage”: Flora’s Performative Interventions in Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm
Chapter will appear in edited collection, ‘Have Women a Sense of Humour?’: Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction, edited by Nick Turner and Nicola Darwood. 2020, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Journal Article: “‘Nothing ever dies’: Rememory, Trauma, and Place in Beloved and Paradise”
Article appears in MidAmerica, Issue XLV, 2019, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.
Book Chapter: “‘Free! Body and Soul Free!’: The Docile Female Body in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour’”
Chapter appears in New Women's Writing: Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy. 2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Article: “‘Free! Body and Soul Free!’: The Docile Female Body in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour’”
Article appears in Watermark, Issue 10, 2016, California State University at Long Beach.
Book Chapter: “Are you sure she was your sister?’: Sororal Love and Maternal Failure in Toni Morrison's Paradise"
Chapter appears in Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. July 2017, Demeter Press.
Book Chapter: "'Beneath an undivided sky’: Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in Theodore Roethke’s ‘Interlude’”
Chapter will appear in A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke. Forthcoming 2020.
Book Chapter: “The Red Death and Romeo: Poe’s ‘Magnificent Revels’ as a Re-Vision of the Capulet Masquerade”
Chapter will appear in edited collection, Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Essays. Forthcoming 2020, McFarland.
Book Chapter: “Restoring broken bodies: The Ekphrastic Poetry of Larry Levis and Natasha Trethewey”
Chapter appears in Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Book Chapter: “‘Teach the paints to speak’: Mythology and the Muse in the Ekphrastic Poems of Mather Byles and Phillis Wheatley”
Chapter appears in Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Book Chapter: “‘The meaning of charity’: Misconduct and Altruism in Arrested Development”
Chapter appears in A State of Arrested Development: Critical Essays on the Innovative Television Comedy. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015.
Book Chapter: “Gendered Travel and Quiescence in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”
Chapter appears in Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
CO-EDITED VOLUME:
Sherwood Anderson, The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems (1921).
Published by Hastings College Press, 2019. Co-edited with Aaron C. Babcock.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
OHIO UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOW/TEACHING ASSISTANT/Instructor; AUGUST 2014-PRESENT
- Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Issues in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Gendered Shame
- Women and Writing: The History of Female Literary Identity
- Teaching Assistant: Master's Essay (graduate course)
- Teaching Assistant: Introduction to English Studies (graduate course)
- Teaching Assistant: The Perils and Pleasures of Consumption, 1660-1800
- Writing and Rhetoric I and II
- Writing, Reading, and Rhetoric in the Professions
- Teaching Assistant: Toni Morrison and Her Influences
- Teaching Assistant: American Literature, 1865-1918
- Teaching Assistant: Law and Literature
TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH; JUNE 2005-AUGUST 2014
- Basic College Composition
- Composition I
- Composition II
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH; AUGUST 2009-MAY 2012
- English as a Second Language
- College Writing Improvement
- Composition I
- Composition II
- Women’s Literature
- Modern Novel
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH; AUGUST 2005-JUNE 2008
- Expository Writing
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, TOLEDO OH: GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, AUGUST 2003-MAY 2005
- Composition I
- Composition II: Language and Identity
- Composition II: Writing the Community
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Forms of Early Modern Trauma: Making Legible Historical Suffering
- American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Roundtable; March 2019 (postponed to 2020 due to COVID-19)
- Title of Paper: “She Owes Me Her Consent”: Trauma, Shame, and Internalized Misogyny in Richardson’s Clarissa
Burneys and Stuff (The Burney Society)
- American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies; March 2019 (postponed to 2020 due to COVID-19)
- Title of Paper: “’Tis some exquisite performer”: Juliet’s Harp and the Shame of Visibility in Burney’s The Wanderer”
In the Shadow of Winesburg: Sherwood Anderson’s The Triumph of the Egg
- Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; May 2019
- Title of Paper: “There is a road she must travel alone”: Gendered Ambition and Loneliness in The Triumph of the Egg
Eliza Haywood: 300 Years of Love in Excess
- Purdue University Early Atlantic Reading Group; April 2019
- Title of Paper: “The Shame Would Be Wholly Hers”: Gendered Guilt and Shame in Love in Excess
1719 and the 'Rise' of the Novel
- The American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies; March 2019
- Title of Paper: “The Shame Would Be Wholly Hers”: Genre Conventions and Gendered Shame in Haywood’s Love in Excess
Placing the Burneys
- The Frances Burney Society of North America; November 2017
- Title of Paper: “‘Don’t look so ashamed, my pretty dear’: Place and Gendered Shame in Burney’s The Wanderer”
Sherwood Anderson, Poets, and Midwestern Masculinities
- Midwestern Modern Language Association; November 2017
- Co-chair and presenter; Title of Paper: “‘A man of infinite littleness’: Failure and the Midwestern Male Body in the Poetry of Sherwood Anderson and Matt Rasmussen”
Rememory and Place in the Novels of Toni Morrison
- Co-chair and presenter; Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; June 2017
- Title of Paper: “‘Nothing ever dies’: Rememory, Trauma, and Place in Beloved and Paradise”
Home Is Where the Start Is: Interrogating Eighteenth-Century Domesticity
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; April 2017
- Title of Paper: “‘I will not be thus constrained’: Domestic Power, Shame, and Agency in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa”
Narrative Work of Fertility
- Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; November 2016
- Title of Paper: “Bastardy, Shame, and Property: Moll Flanders, Crime, and the Governess as Entrepreneur”
Genre Crossing in Midwestern Literature
- Midwest Modern Language Association; November 2016
- Title of Paper: “'Nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth': Failed Language and Broken Boundaries in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye"
The Familiar and the Strange in the Eighteenth Century
- East-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; October 2016
- Title of Paper: “Bastardy, Shame, and Property: Moll Flanders, Crime, and the Governess as Entrepreneur”
Gender, Androgyny, and the Inscrutable Female Body in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
- Co-chair and presenter, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; June 2016
- Title of Paper: “‘The woman of sin”: Misreading and Negating the Body of Kate Swift
International Virginia Woolf Society
- The University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900; February 2016
- Title of Paper: “'A symbol of something hid deep beneath': Clothing as a Closet in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando"
Rethinking the Public Perception of Midwestern Literature and Midwestern Journals
- Modern Language Association/Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; January 2016
- Title of Paper: “‘English language colored Black' and 'an inadvertent prophet’: Reviews and Early Critical Reception of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon, and the Role of the Midwest”
"'She flew to me for protection': Networks, Agency, and Community in Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing"
- East Central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; November 2015
- Title of paper: “Appropriating Sacred Space: Convents and Gendered Communities in Behn and Haywood”
Violent Bodies: Graduate Student Conference
- The Ohio State University, English Graduate Organization; October 2015
- Title of paper: “‘Sharp, strong, and white as sea-foam’: Teeth and Gendered Violence in Moore’s Spleen and Morrison’s Beloved”
Cross-Genre Creative Writing Craft Seminar
- Ashland University Master of Fine Arts Residency; July 2015
- Title of presentation: “The Pandemic of Memory: Research, Perspective, and Collective History”
The Cultural Heritage of the Midwest: A Symposium
- Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; June 2015
- Title of paper: “'I believe in the paint': Commodification of Belief in The Rise of Silas Lapham"
Lovers, Madmen And Poets: Shakespeare And The Imaginary, Supernatural, And Divine
- Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference, The Ohio State University; October 2014
- Title of paper: “'By the pricking of my thumbs': Corporeal Omens in Shakespeare’s Tragedies"
“Many straunge and horrible events” – Omens And Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- Société Française Shakespeare, The Sorbonne; April 2014
- Title of paper: “By the pricking of my thumbs”: Corporeal Omens in Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Retirement, Reappraisal, and Renewal in the Eighteenth Century
- East Central Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies; November 2013
- Title of paper: "The Mazarin Separation: Philosophic and Literary Afflatus"
Ekphrasis in American Poetry
- Midwest Modern Language Association; November 2013
- Title of paper: "Restoring Broken Bodies: The Ekphrastic Poetry of Larry Levis and Natasha Trethewey"
English Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Rocky Mountain MLA; OCTOBER 2012
- Title of Paper: "Mary Astell’s Empirical Feminism: A Marriage of Conservatism and Autonomy"
Robert Frost: Sentimentality and Being Versed in Country Things
- American Literature Association; May 2012
- Title of paper: "Truncated Speech and Surrogate Speakers: Frost’s Evasive Sentiment"
Reconsidering Macbeth
- Shakespeare in Performance, The University of Maine at Farmington; May 2012
- Title of paper: Text as Performance: Faulkner’s Retelling of Macbeth
Forty-Seventh Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
- Western Michigan University; May 2012
- Title of paper: “'Fear This Judgment Greatly': Holy Fear as Incentive for Enclosure"
Festivals and Faires: Sociology in Literature
- Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association; April 2012
- Title of paper: "Festivals and Faires as Harbingers of Tragedy in Poe, Banks, and Eliot"
Children and Childhood in the Humanities
- Virginia Humanities Conference, Roanoke College; March 2012
- Title of paper: "A Prisoner of Gateshead: Perpetual Childhood in Jane Eyre"
Panoramas and Prospects
- South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; February 2012
- Title of paper: "Mary Astell’s Empirical Feminism: A Marriage of Conservatism and Autonomy"
Gender and Medieval Studies
- The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; January 2012
- Title of paper: "Holy Fear as Incentive for Enclosure"
Travel and Truth
- The University of Oxford, United Kingdom.; September 2011
- Title of paper: "Gendered Travel and Quiescence in Toni Morrison’s Paradise"
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
- Owens Community College; October 2010
- Title of panel: "A Scholarly Conversation Concerning the Composition of the Shakespearean Corpus"
CHAIRED PANELS/ROUNDTABLES
JOB MARKET CRASH COURSE: FIVE WAYS TO MAKE A GREAT IMPRESSION
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; March 2019
MODELS OF SOLIDARITY IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; March 2018
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Essay: “SCALDING MY FACE IN MY FATHER'S APARTMENT”
Trampset Literary Journal, Spring 2021
Essay: “OUT, FATHER”
Complete Sentence Literary Journal, Spring 2021
POEM: “EPHEMERAL DESCANT”
JuxtaProse Magazine, Summer 2018
POEM: “INSIDE MY FATHER’S STOPPED HEART”
Glass: A Journal of Poetry, December 2016
POEMS: "SMALL ORACLE” and “FATA MORGANA”
The Game Show, published by the EASE Gallery/the Greater Columbus Arts Council
Featured in a multimedia art installation at the EASE Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), February 2016
POEMS: "BEULAH BEACH TABERNACLE” and “HEIRLOOM”
Rag Queen Periodical, February/March 2016
POEMS: "THE PRICE OF SKIN AND BLOOD," “UNMARKED GRAVE,” “FIRST LESSONS,” “ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE,” and “DID NOT HAPPEN IN KENTUCKY”
Lehigh Valley Vanguard, July-October 2015
POEMS: "HERITAGE", "SALT", "CANDLE", "EVENSONG", "LOST IN THE GRAVEYARD" and "SIATE IMMORTALE"
The Stockholm Review of Literature. Issue #8, Spring 2015
POEM: “STILL”
The Broken Plate. Issue: Spring 2015
POEM: “INTERMINABLE DAY—CLYDE, OHIO”
Flyover Country Review. Issue: July 2014
POEMS: “AI, AI” and “BOOK OF FIRE”
The Minetta Review. Issue: Spring 2014
POEMS: “VESTAL,” “SCALA SANCTA,” “FOLLOWING THE ARNO,” and “TAKE ME IN”
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics. Issue: Autumn 2013
POEM: “THE SOUND OF STONE”
DIN Magazine. Issue 4, 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
REVIEW OF ALLBERY, DEBRA. WALKING DISTANCE.
Con•text. Issue: Summer 2015
EDITORSHIPS AND SERVICE
Editorships:
o Contributing Editor (Fall 2018-), Cosmologics: A Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture,
published by Harvard Divinity School
o Editor-in-Chief (Spring 2018-2019), Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
o Assistant Editor (2016-Spring 2018), Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
o Associate Editor (2015-2016), Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
o Associate Editor (2016-2019), Ohio University Arts and Sciences Forum and newsletter
o Assistant Editor (2015-present), Quarter after Eight literary magazine
o Poetry Editor (2014-present), The Critical Pass Review
Chair/Co-Chair Positions:
o Chair (Spring 2018-2019), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Student Caucus
o Co-chair (2017-Spring 2018), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Student Caucus
Volunteer Work:
o Assistant Coordinator (Spring 2018), Charles W. Chesnutt Graduate Reading Series at Ohio University
o Reader (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) for New Ohio Review, Ohio University
Committees:
- Presidential Committee member (2018-2019), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Committee member (2018-2019), Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Fund Committee
Residencies:
o Poetry residency with Ashland University (Summer 2015), Paris, France
o Poet-in-Residence (Fall 2015), Lehigh Valley Vanguard
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
BARBARA E. ALLUSHUSKI GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Ohio University, 2017-2018
LITERARY FESTIVAL POETRY COMPETITION, FIRST PLACE
- Ohio University, 2017 Poem: “Fortune Teller”
EARL C. AND MARGARET S. SHIVELY SCHOLARSHIP
- Ohio University, English Department; Academic year 2016-2017
- Given to a Ph.D. literature student entering their fourth year who has demonstrated admirable achievement or progress
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD
- Ohio University, English Department; Academic year 2014-2015
EMILY TICE AWARD NOMINATIONS
- Ohio University, English Department
- Best critical essay written for a graduate seminar in a calendar year; Nominated in 2015, 2016, and 2017
BEST OF THE NET NOMINATION
- Poem “Salt” nominated for international poetry contest, 2015
- Nominated by The Stockholm Review of Literature
NEILA AND CANDADAI SESHACHARI FACULTY CONVENTION TRAVEL GRANT
- Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association; October 2012
- Selected for funding to support conference presentation at RMMLA
CHALLENGE GRANT
- Terra State Community College; October 2010 and February 2012
- Selected for funding to support conference presentations
HILDA A. BRETZLAFF ENDOWMENT FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
- Ashland University; Academic years 2001-2003
- Received several academic scholarship endowments for exceptional scholastic achievement
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
East Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
The Toni Morrison Society
The Burney Society
National Women’s Studies Association