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Education
Toggle EducationPh.D. in English, Louisiana State University, 2016
M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture, University of York, 2009
B.A. in English, Palm Beach Atlantic University, 2006
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Research and Teaching Interests
Toggle Research and Teaching InterestsModernism, World Literature, War Writing, Literary and Cultural Theory, Literature
and the Environment, Visual Culture, Composition
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Publications
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Articles
- “The Incest Plot: Melancholic Nationalism in H.D.’s Kora and Ka and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 16 (2018): 38-59.
- “A Tale of Optics: Poe, Visual Culture, and Antebellum Literary Celebrity.” Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation 47 (2014): 36-54.
- “Traumatizing Arcadia: Postwar Pastoral in The Sun Also Rises.” The Hemingway Review 32.1 (Fall 2012): 57-71.
Book Chapters
- “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway,” with Krista Quesenberry. American Literary Scholarship: An Annual—2017. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. (forthcoming: 10,000 words)
- “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual—2016. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke UP. 153-70.
- “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual—2015. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP. 153-75.
- “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual—2014. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke UP. 165-86.
- “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway,” with Joe Fruscione. American Literary Scholarship: An Annual—2013. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP. 175-89.
Reviews
- Rev. of Teaching Hemingway and Modernism, ed. Joseph Fruscione. The Hemingway Review 36.2 (Spring 2017): 135-38.
- Rev. of Hemingway’s Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest
Hemingway, by Matthew Nickel. The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 151-54.
Encyclopedia Entries
- “Siegfried Sassoon.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Peer-reviewed.
- “Vorticism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Peer-reviewed.
Interviews
- “Interview with Colin Peter Field, Head Bartender at the Ritz Paris’s Bar Hemingway.”
The Hemingway Review Blog. 9 August 2017.
- “How to Count Style: An Interview with Justin Rice from LitCharts.” The Hemingway Review Blog. 28 March 2017.
In Progress
- The Darkest Nation: World War I and the Rise of Modernist American Melancholia (monograph)
- The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1957-1961. Edited with J. Gerald Kennedy and Valerie Hemingway. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
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Conference Presentations
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- “Balancing Acts: Academia’s Gendered Cost of Living” Roundtable, 134th Annual Modern
Language Association Conference, January 9-12, 2020. (accepted)
- “Fascism on the rue de Fleurus: Stein, Place, and Politics,” 18th Biennial Hemingway
Conference, American University of Paris, July 22-28, 2018.
- “Hemingway, Dada, Utopia: Some Divine Gestures,” 17th Biennial Hemingway Conference,
July 17-22, 2016.
- “The Devil’s Disciple in the American West: Hemingway versus Ford,” 131st Annual Modern
Language Association Convention, January 7-10, 2016.
- “The Celluloid Tomb: William Faulkner’s A Fable,” 16th. Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 6-9, 2014.
- “Media, Magazines, and Modern Warfare.” 16th Biennial Hemingway Conference, Venice
International University, June 22-27, 2014.
- “Icebergs are also Deadly: Postwar Mourning and Hemingway’s In Our Time,” 16th Biennial Hemingway Conference, Venice International University, June 22-27,
2014.
- “Dark Waters: The Problems with Self-Reflection in ‘The Battler’,” 15th Biennial Hemingway
Conference, June 17-23, 2012.
- “Death of a Furniture Dealer: Ford Madox Ford’s A Man Could Stand Up—,” 22nd Annual Mardi Gras Conference, Louisiana State University, February 16-17,
2012.
- Traumatizing Arcadia: Postwar Pastoral in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises,” 21st Annual Mardi Gras Conference, Louisiana State University, March 3-4, 2011.
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Grants & Awards
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- Scholarship-Research Venture Capital Fund Recipient, FGCU, 2019
- Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum Academy Member, FGCU, 2018
- THATCamp Digital Humanities Workshop Award, FGCU, 2017
- Dean's Graduate Summer Institute Member, LSU, 2016
- Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominee, LSU, 2016
- Dissertation-Year Fellowship, LSU, 2015-16
- Sarah Liggett Teaching Award, LSU, 2015
- Modernist Studies Association Travel Grant, 2014
- JFK Library Foundation Hemingway Collection Grant, 2014
- Jim and Nancy Hinkle Travel Grant, Hemingway Society, 2014
- Travel Award, Graduate School, LSU, 2012, 2014, 2016
- Travel Award, Department of English, LSU, 2012, 2014, 2016
- Jim and Nancy Hinkle Travel Grant, Hemingway Society, 2012
Advisory Editor. Hemingway Letters Project. 2018-.
Co-Host of Hemingway Podcast. The Hemingway Society. 2018-.
Member of Steering Committee for Cuba Conference. The Hemingway Society. 2016-.
News Coordinator. The Hemingway Society. 2016-.
Referee. The Hemingway Review. 2015-.
Member of Advisory Council of Younger Scholars. The Hemingway Society. 2014-.
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