I am an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where I specialize in eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of women’s writing, and the history and theory of the novel. At VCU, I also serve as affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. 

For the 2025-2026 academic year, I am serving as a Traveling Lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of North America—one of two invited positions nationally. In 2025, I was elected co-chair of the Women’s Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and will hold that position until 2027. 

I grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso, where I taught middle school math from 2011-2013. I received my PhD from Duke University in 2020 and, before coming to VCU in 2023, also taught English at Monmouth College in Illinois and Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama. 

For the past decade, I have filled my house with dogs named after my favorite characters from eighteenth-century fiction: Uncle Toby, Jenny Jones, Roxana. We share our home with my husband and our very sweet cat, whose name (alas!) bears no connection to the eighteenth century.