Education
- (2021 to Present) PhD, University of Miami, English
- (2024) MA, University of Miami, English
- (2020) B.A. Florida International University, English
Courses Taught
- (Summer 2025) Digital Publishing with Dr. Kelly Baker Josephs, CDSsi
- (Spring 2023) First-Year Writing I – WRS 105
- (Fall 2022) First-Year Writing II – WRS 106: To Boldly Go
Publications
Book Chapter: “Make Them Wait: Seriality and Commercial Advertising,” Edinburgh University Press (Under Review).
Popular Engagements
“Manchineel + Seagrape: Archiving Caribbean Drama for Future Generations,” Journal of West Indian Literature Blog, March 2025.
“Barbie,” In Media Res: a media commons podcast, February 2024.
“Mojo Dojo Casa House and Masculinity in the Popular Imagination,” In Media Res, February 2024.
Presentations
“Github and Github Pages,” Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group (DH IRG), November 2024.
“Introduction to Markdown,” Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group (DH IRG), October 2024.
“Digital Poetics: Toward a Theory of the Virus,” The Caribbean Digital (TCD), December 2023.
“Digital Caribbean Dramatic Archive Prototype,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 2023.
“GitHub Fundamentals,” Digital Humanities Research Institute, March 2023.
“’Make them wait’: Desire, Delay, and the Serial Gap in Television Commercials,” ‘That’s a Take!’: The International Television Commercial as Short Film, November 2022.
“The Smithereen: The Fractured Social Order of Late Capitalism,” HSI Pathways Cross Institutional Conference at Rutgers University, February 2020.
Digital Projects
- (Ongoing) “The Radical Periodical Index,” Creator & Project Lead.
- (2023-2025) “Manchineel + Seagrape.” Graduate Research & Editorial Assistant, Dr. Kelly Baker Josephs.
- (2023) “Mapping Imaginary Miami,” Summer Research Fellow
Committees and Organizations
- (Ongoing) Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), Co-Organizer
- (2024-2025) Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group (DHIRG), Co-Organizer
- (2024-2025) English Graduate Organization (EGO), Department Representative
- (2023-2024) English Graduate Organization (EGO), Co-President
- (2022-2023) English Graduate Organization (EGO), Treasurer
Fellowships and Awards
- 2023-2024 & 2024-2025 UGrow Fellowship, Digital Humanities
- UM Digital Humanities Fellowship, Summer 2023 & Summer 2024.
- DHSI Tuition Scholarship, Summer 2023.
- UDialogue Program, 2022-2023.
- Mellon HSI – Pathways to the Professoriate Fellow, 2019-2020.
Professional Development
“Minimal Computing,” Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute, June 2024.
“Designing Digital Publications,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute at University of Victoria, June 2023.
Professional Societies
- C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
- Modern Language Association
- American Studies Association