Welcome to my website! I am a writer, educator, and researcher based in the Chicago area. I teach composition, rhetoric, and literature classes that empower students’ voices, celebrate diversity, and inspire critical thinking. I hold a PhD in English from Emory University and a MA in Irish Studies from New York University. My research focuses on the intersections of Irish, Southern, and Caribbean women’s writing, investigating how literature remembers what history forgets. 

I have also worked on exhibitions and acquisitions at Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In my free time, I enjoy tending my vegetable garden and hiking with my family.

Cover image by Louis le Brocquy from his illustrations of the Táin