Research

I have presented my research both regionally and internationally, and regularly attend conferences of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Northeast MLA (NeMLA), the Thomas Hardy Society, and the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA).  My work has been supported by College of Arts and Sciences Research Development Grant at Appalachian University and a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Recent Presentations

  • “Landscape, Horizon, and History: The Trumpet-Major’s Realist Poetics.” Thomas Hardy Society, Dorchester, UK. (July 2026)

  • “Collecting and Recollecting: Picturing Social Collectivity in Adam Bede.” British Women Writers Association, Auburn, AL. (May 2026)

  • “Dickens’ Civic Picturesque: From the Periodical Sketch to Bleak House.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Chicago, IL. (July 2025)

  • “Hardy’s Visualities: Text and Image in Under the Greenwood Tree.” ACLA, Montréal, Canada. (March 2024)

  •  “‘Ruined lands in every shire’: Landscape, Property, and the Picturesque in Bleak House.” NAVSA, Bethlehem, PA. (September 2022)

  • "Dutch Paintings, Description, and Realist Form: Hardy’s Pictorialism in Under the Greenwood Tree." Thomas Hardy Society. Dorchester, UK. (July 2022)