I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. I study Old and Middle English literature and culture, and comic book and graphic novel studies, with a theoretical framework drawn from Black Feminist Literature and Theory. My previous work has focused on medieval English affective piety, medieval and modern visual culture, and the cruciform male body in medieval literature and superhero comics and on affective codes of masculinity in Middle English alliterative chivalric literature and the Batman mythos. I am broadly interested in cultural “traces” in temporally distant media, and more specifically interested in what those traces reveal about cultural expectations for embodied and gendered experiences.
I grew up in a small town in the Florida panhandle, and moved to the upstate of South Carolina in my late teens. I earned my BA from Clemson University in English in 2014, and my MA in English from the University of South Carolina in 2018. Before attending Cornell University, I worked full time for USC Connect (now the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning) at the University of South Carolina as an Advisor for Graduation with Leadership Distinction.
I grew up in a small town in the Florida panhandle, and moved to the upstate of South Carolina in my late teens. I earned my BA from Clemson University in English in 2014, and my MA in English from the University of South Carolina in 2018. Before attending Cornell University, I worked full time for USC Connect (now the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning) at the University of South Carolina as an Advisor for Graduation with Leadership Distinction.