Education

• D. English Literature, University of Texas at Arlington, 2019
• A. English Literature, University of West Florida, 2012
• A. English Literature (minor in Teacher Education), University of West Florida, 2009

Research and Teaching Interests

• Early Modern English Literature
• Shakespeare
• Medieval English Literature
• Ecocriticism
• Critical Animal/Plant Studies
• Outlaw Studies (Robin Hood)
• Food/Gardening Studies
• Posthumanism/New Materialisms

Publications

• “Plant Bodies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play, ed. Rebecca Bushnell (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2025).
• “‘Seeds and Roots’: Hiddenness and Hendiadys,” Early Modern Studies Journal 9 (2024): 1-22.
• “The Botanical Revisions of 3 Henry VI,” in Shakespeare’s Botanical Imagination, ed. Susan Staub (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).
• “Intertextual Outlawry: Robin Hood and Race in We Need to Talk About Kevin,” Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies 3 (2023): 368-389.
• “‘Between the Red Rose and the White’: Staging Vegetal Materiality in the First Tetralogy,” Shakespeare2 (2023): 180-202. Special issue on “Shakespeare and Gardens.”
• “The Storied Matter of the Greenwood in the More-Than-Human-World,” The Bulletin for the International Association for Robin Hood Studies 4 (2022): 41-57.
• “Ariel’s Anguish: Doing (Arboreal) Time in The Tempest,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4 (2021): 1481–1506.
• “Early Modern Fishing Practices and Seafood Culture in Robin Hood’s Fishing,” in Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales, eds. Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo (Routledge, 2021).
• “The Fare of ‘Sanguinary Devils’: Feast and Storytelling in The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,” in Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales, eds. Alexander L. Kaufman and Penny Vlagopoulos (Routledge, 2019).