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UC Santa Barbara M.A., English
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Areas of Interest
- Early Modern British Literature
- Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature
- Augustan Poetry and Translation
- Milton, Cowley, Behn, Dryden, Pope
- Early Modern Education
- Ecocriticism
- Pastoral & Georgic
M.A. Fields (First Qualifying Exam): Renaissance Literature; Restoration & 18th-Century Literature; Theories of Literature & the Environment
Languages: Spanish and Latin
Current Projects
Ph.D., English
Dissertation: “Cultivating Mind and Soil: Augustan English Georgic Poetry, 1657-1757”
Committee: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (chair), Ken Hiltner, J. Sears McGee
Certificate in College and University Teaching (CCUT)
Early Modern Center, UC Santa Barbara
- Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2011
UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division
- Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, 2007-2009
Presentations
- “Ithilien’s Environmental History: Garden, Battlefield, Nature Reserve.” Nature and the Environment in Middle-Earth. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, April 8-9, 2011.
- Horatian Didactic and Pope’s “Essay on Criticism.” Guest Lecture, ENGL 102, May 10, 2010.
- “Virgil Carried Across: Translation as Transplanting in John Dryden’s 1697 Works of Virgil.” Carried Across: Translations, Temporalities, and Trajectories Graduate Conference. Dept of English, University of Rhode Island. April 24, 2010.
- Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” Guest Lecture, ENGL 102. February 19, 2010.
- “John Dryden’s 1697 Works of Virgil: Making and Marking a Literary Legacy.” Research Sharing and Discussion Series. The History of Books and Material Texts Research Focus Group, UC Santa Barbara, October 29, 2009.
- “The Place of Ithilien, Gondor’s Wounded Garden, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Environmental Vision.” (Dis)placement Graduate Conference, April 3, 2009, UC Riverside.
- “‘Tumidam et Stramineam’: A Glimpse into the Defining of Textual Authority in Edmund Campion’s Disputes, 1581.” Early Modern Center Brown Bag Talk, August 1, 2008, UC Santa Barbara.
University Teaching Experience, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
Teaching Associate. Design and teach course as Instructor of Record.
- ENGL 165JT: Mythopoeic Ecology: J. R. R. Tolkien, Summer (Session B) 2011
- ENGL 162: Milton and Individual Responsibility, Summer (Session B) 2010
- Summer Teaching Institute for Associates (STIA) Certification, 2010
Teaching Assistant. Lead discussion sections, proctor exams, maintain grades.
- ENGL 10: Introduction to Literary Study. Prof. Bishnupriya Ghosh, Summer (Session A) 2011
- ENGL 102: English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789.
James H. Donelan, PhD, Spring 2010
Prof. Elizabeth H. Cook, Winter 2010 - ENGL 105A: Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays. Prof. Mark Rose, Fall 2009.
- Research Assistant. Prepare materials for Theories of Literature & Environment, Summer 2008
Selected Professional Experience
- Christ the King School. Facilitator (part-time, off-campus volunteer), 2007-present.
Design & implement comprehensive sequence for grades 9-12, Western Civilization: Classical to Modern, integrating history, literature, & the arts with writing, discussion, and online components - Mediation & Dispute Resolution Professional Certificate Program. UC Santa Barbara Extension. Coursework in progress.
- Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), October 2009. SBCC & Quail Springs Learning Oasis.
Training course, plus hands-on practicum at a working permaculture farm.
Service
Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
- Graduate Committee Student Representative, 2010-2011
- Department Orientation Co-Coordinator, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
- Council of Graduate Students (CoGS) Representative, January 2009-present
Early Modern Center, UC Santa Barbara
- Conference Chair “The Future of Literary Studies 1500-1800” March 11-12, 2011.
- Conference Organizing Committee “Limits of the Human,” March 5, 2010.
“Before Environmentalism,” March 6, 2009.
Coal Oil Point Reserve (part of the UC Natural Reserve System), Shorelines and Watersheds
- Tour Leader, March 2009—present; Tour Program Intern, January-March 2010
Professional Affiliatons
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
- Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)