EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English, emphasis in Renaissance Literature. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor, BYU-Hawaii, English Department
COURSES TAUGHT
Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Composition, Introduction to Literature
PUBLICATIONS
“Good Turns in Romeo and Juliet.” Renascence Journal 75.3-4 (Summer/Fall 2023): 195-209.
“You learn me noble thankfulness”: Restoring a Graceful Cycle of Giving and Receiving in Much Ado About Nothing.” Religion and Literature 52.2 (Summer 2020): 45-66.
“Gertrude’s Tale.” Journal of the Wooden O 19(2019): 82-91.
“ ‘All that appears most casuall to us’: Fortune, Compassion, and Reason in Lucy Hutchinson’s Exploratory Providentialism.” Studies in Philology (Winter 2015): 327-52.
“Cultivating Prudence: “Robert Dallington’s Aphorismes Civill and Militarie.” Sixteenth-Century Journal 43.2 (Summer 2012): 351-70.
“Hand Hand Shooke”: Compassionate Touch in George Chapman’s Hero and Leander. Quidditas 31 (2010): 160-83.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2024 “Not Having the Last Word.” Wooden O/RMMRA Conference, Southern Utah University
2022 “The Promised End” Wooden O Conference. Southern Utah University.
2019 “’Too hard a Knot for Me to Untie: Undoing the Ties that Bind in Twelfth Night.” Wooden O Conference. Southern Utah University
2017 “Your overkindness wrings tears from me”: Transforming Emotional Economies in Much Ado about Nothing Wooden O Conference. Southern Utah University
2017 “You learn me noble thankfulness”: Distorting Gratitude in Much Ado about Nothing , ANZAMEMS Conference. Wellington, New Zealand
2013 “The Storied Landscape of Julie Taymor's Tempest: Retelling Shakespeare in Hawai’i.” Wooden O Conference. Southern Utah University
2011 “Lucy Hutchinson and Providence.” ANZAMEMS Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand
2010 “Motiveless Mourning in Much Ado about Nothing.” Wooden O Conference. Southern Utah University
2010 “The Voice of Nature in Tasso’s Aminta.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
2021-present, Reviewer for Journal of the Wooden O
SERVICE
2021-2024, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters
2023-2024 Accreditation Committee Member
2020-2021 English Program Lead
2023 English Program Assessment Group Member
2020 Committee Lead, General Education Assessment for Writing
2015 English Circle Advisor
2015 GE 110 Committee Member
2011-2014 Assessment Committee Member
2010-2011 Academic Exceptions Committee Member
CV Last Revised June,2024
