I am a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Harvard University, where I received an AM degree in 2020. During my time at Harvard, I have received fellowships from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,

the Open Gate Foundation, and the English Department.

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My dissertation, "The Future as Warning," focuses on narrative voice and literary form in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone dystopian novels. My wider research interests include narratology, history

and theory of the novel, feminist studies, queer studies, and speculative fiction.

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I also work as a researcher for iHeartMedia's podcast division, contributing to shows

such as Under the Influence (where I make a cameo in Episode 7),

among other historical and cultural podcasts.

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Before coming to Harvard, I received my BA from Stanford University, graduating with honors in English and a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. I completed an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Virginia, where I held a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship.

 

I spent two years as a staff researcher for the magazine mental_floss. and have published cultural and historical articles in venues including mental_floss, JSTOR Daily, Atlas Obscura, and Racked. 

My poetry has appeared in BOAAT, Apogee, Southern Indiana Review, PANK, 

Hawaii Pacific Review, DIAGRAM, and other journals.