Selected vitae; full CV available by request
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2023
Teaching Faculty III, Educational Innovation Lead
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2020-2023
Lecturer, Departments of English and Communication Arts
Researcher, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019-2020
Lindsay Family Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
University of Chicago
EDUCATION
2019
PhD in English, University of Chicago
Dissertation: “Virtual Realism: Victorian Fiction as Optical Technology
2014
M.A. in English, University of Chicago
2010
B.A. in English, Oberlin College
Highest Honors
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
Victorian literary and cultural studies; film and media studies; visual studies; science and technology studies; race, empire and post-colonial studies; history and theory of the novel
SELETECTED PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture [under contract with Cornell UP]
Articles and Book Chapters
“‘To Become a Devil’: Special Effects, Magic Tricks, and the Technological Image in Faust (1926).” Film Criticism, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Fall 2023), forthcoming
“(Post-)Colonial Biography.” Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2023. https://undiscipliningvc.org/html/assessments/(post-)colonial_biography.html
“In Defense of Credulous Women: Magic and Optical Spectatorship in Cranford.” Victorian Studies, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Spring 2021).
“Contracts for a Time of Crisis: What I Learned from Grading in a Pandemic.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Spring 2021).
“‘A Bright Continuous Flow’: Phantasmagoria and History in A Tale of Two Cities.” Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 2020)
“Conversations with Pauline Kael.” In Talking About Pauline Kael. Edited by Wayne Stengel. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. 159-169.
SELECTED HONORS
2023
Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
2020
Instructional Continuity Grant, School of Letters & Sciences, UW-Madison
2018
Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching, University of Chicago
Franke Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Chicago
Nicholson Graduate Fellowship for Research in British Isles, University of Chicago
2017
Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies, Midwest Victorian Studies Association
2016
Social Science Research Council – Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2023
“Baghdadi Jews and the British Raj.” Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
“Image and Identity in Indian Jewish Marriage Contracts.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Bloomington, Indiana.
“Crystal Cube Miniatures: An Archival Detective Mystery.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Denver, Colorado.
2022
“Phantasmagoria: Resurrecting the Past.” University of California, Santa Cruz.
“Virtual Realism: George Eliot’s Mirror of Ink.” SUNY Cortland, New York.
“British, Jewish, Arab, or Indian?: The Problem of Race for Indian Jews.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Bethlehem, PA
“The Acted Upon Body: From the Phenakistoscope to Early Film.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Online conference.
“The Diamond Lens.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Online conference.
2021
“Teaching and Learning with Optical Toys.” Critical Crafting in and Beyond the Humanities Classroom: 19th-Century Material Culture and 21st-Century Open Pedagogy.
“The Virtual Image: UW-Madison’s Pre-Cinema Collection.” Film Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2019
“Magic and Visual Pedagogy in Cranford.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Columbus, Ohio.
2018
“Stereoscopic Toys and Victorian Virtual Reality.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts; Toronto, Ontario.
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Women’s Writing and the Global Nineteenth-Century
Cinematic Realisms
Global Cinema History
Nineteenth-Century Novel
India and the Victorian Imagination
Visual Storytelling
University of Chicago
Media Aesthetics
Realism, or, Illusions of the Real
Film & the Moving Image
Chicago Center for Teaching
Fundamentals of Teaching Literature
Special Topics in Teaching Literature
SELECTED SERVICE
Founder and Representative, Empire and Colonialism Caucus, North American Victorian Studies Association
Contributor & Reviewer, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
Reviewer, Victorian Studies
Reviewer, Early Popular Visual Culture
Coordinator, Race and Pedagogy Working Group at the University of Chicago (2017-2018)
Teaching Fellow, Chicago Center for Teaching (2016-2018)
Organizing Committee and Gender Subcommittee Chair, Graduate Students United, University of Chicago