Education
- Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- MPhil, University of Cambridge, England
Selected research
I research the philosophy of fiction with a special interest in Romantic-era Britain. My Ph.D. explored the work of novelist and philosopher William Godwin through the lens of media history.
Courses taught
- WRIT101 – Foundations of Academic Discourse
- HUMA202 – Civilization and Literature
- WRIT120 – Tutoring Student Writers
Selected publications
- "Beauty and Persuasion in Fiction," Between Times 3 (forthcoming 2026)
- "The Real Problem with Romantasy," ARC Magazine, April 2026
- "Libraries and the Formation of Character in Nineteenth-Century Novels," in Libraries in Literature, ed. Alice Crawford and Robert Crawford (Oxford University Press, 2022), 86–101
- Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783-1836 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
- "Peril in the means of its diffusion": William Godwin on Truth and Social Media," Journal of the History of Ideas 81:1 (2020), 67-84
- "Novel-Reading, Ethics, and William Godwin in the 1830s," Studies in Romanticism 59:2 (2020), 209-23