EDUCATION
2020 – Ph.D., Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature, Certificate in Judaic Studies and Graduate Teaching, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Defense expected May 2020.
Dissertation: “Feral Modernisms.”
Committee: Peggy McCracken (chair), Joshua Miller (chair), Anita Norich, Antoine Traisnel
2013 – M.A. English Literature, Sonoma State University
Thesis: “Like the Memory of a Dream that Never Happened: Visionary Space, Haunted Landscapes, and Bruno Schulz.”
Chair: Thaine Stearns
2007 – B.A. English Literature and Creative Writing, San Francisco State University
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles
| 2019 | “Circe’s Feral Beasts: Women and Other Animals in Joyce’s Ulysses,” forthcoming in JML: Journal of Modern Literature 42.4 (Summer 2019). | ||
| 2019 | “A Sensory Vision of the Word: Bruno Schulz, Martin Buber, and The Ecstatic Body,” forthcoming in Modern Language Notes 134.5 (December 2019). | ||
| Reviews | |||
| 2015 | Review of A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586–1987 by Kathryn Hellerstein. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.) AJS Review. 39.02 (2015) 475 – 477. | ||
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
| 2019-2020 | Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2018-2019 | Institute for the Humanities, Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan |
| 2018-2019 | Margaret Dow Towsley Scholarship, University of Michigan |
| 2018 | Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2017 | John D’Arms Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2017 | Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) Community of Scholars Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2014 | Stanley Frankel Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2013 | Sally Casanova California State University Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, California Statewide |
| 2012-2013 | Sally Ewen Scholarship, Sonoma State University |
| 2012-2013 | Dorothy Overly Scholarship, Sonoma State University |
INVITED TALKS
| 2017 | “Avant-Garde Film,” Guest Lecture for Professor Matthew Solomon, University of Michigan |
| 2017 | “On Ferality,” Invited Lecture for Michigan State University’s Animal Studies Program |
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized
| 2019 | “Modernist Utopias/Utopian Modernisms.” With Sean Seeger, Association for the Society of Literature and the Environment, Davis, CA | ||
| 2018 | “Wild Modernism: Modernist Literature and Animal Bodies.” With Maren Linnett and Carrie Rohman, Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, OH | ||
| 2018 | “On Canons and Methods: A Pedagogy Workshop.” The Space Between/Feminist Intermodernist Association Conference, Greeley, CO | ||
| 2016 | “Film as Art and Science.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Atlanta, GA | ||
| Selected Papers Presented | |||
| 2018 | “Feral Rambling and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| 2016 | “Jean Painlevé’s Creative Anthropomorphism.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Atlanta, GA | ||
| 2015 | “Embodied Knowing in Molodowsky’s Dzshike gas.” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA | ||
| 2015 | “History, Ethics, Form: The afterlife of Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz et après.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA | ||
| 2014 | “In zikh and Visionary Modernism.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New York, NY | ||
| 2012 | “The Likeness of a Tailor’s Dummy.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI | ||
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 2017 | “The Art of Film.” Screen Arts and Cultures. Discussion section leader. |
| 2017 | “Global Sports Cultures.” Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. First year writing course. Discussion section leader. |
| 2016 | “Great Performances.” Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. First year writing course. Discussion section leader. |
| 2016 | “Women and Other Animals.” Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. Intensive summer course. Instructor of Record. |
| 2016 | “Just Passing Through: Crossing Race, Gender, and Species Lines.” English Department, University of Michigan. First year writing course. Instructor of Record. |
| 2015 | “Beasts and Beauties.” Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. First year writing course. Instructor of Record. |
| 2015 | “Women and Other Animals.” English Department, University of Michigan. First year writing course. Instructor of Record. |
| 2014 | “Reading Like a Writer.” English Department, University of Michigan. First year writing course. Instructor of Record. |
| 2012-2013 | Assistant Director. Writing Center, Sonoma State University. |
| 2011-2012 | “First Year Composition.” English Department, Sonoma State University. |
| 2010-2012 | Supplemental Course Instructor. English, Sonoma State University. |
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
| 2016-2017 | Organizer, Animal Studies Speaker Series (with Nicole Shukin, Eva Hayward, and Harriet Ritvo), University of Michigan |
| 2016 | Organizer, Animal Studies Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Michigan, April 12, 2016. |
| 2016 | Conference organizer: “Appetites: Discourses of Consumption.” 20thAnnual CLIFF Conference, University of Michigan, March 10-12, 2016. |
| 2015-2017 | Coordinator, Animal Studies interdisciplinary workshop, University of Michigan |
| 2015-2016 | Coordinator, Comparative Literature department colloquium series, University of Michigan |
| 2015 | Research assistant to Mikhail Krutikov, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. |
| 2014 | Participant, Institute for World Literature, Hong Kong |
| 2007-2009 | MFA student, California Institute of the Arts, Film and Video |
| 2008 | Experimental Animation Fellowship, FAMU University, Prague |
AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
American Comparative Literature Association Association for Judaic Studies Modernist Studies Association | ||
| Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts |
LANGUAGES
French: Reading (fluent), speaking (conversational), writing (with dictionary)
Yiddish: Reading and speaking (proficient)
Polish: Reading (with dictionary)
