CURRICULUM VITAE
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Department of English & Affiliate Faculty, Gender, Race, and Identity Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2015--Present)
EDUCATION
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA
PhD (with distinction), English Literature, May 2014
Dissertation: "Fiction on the Radio: Remediating Transnational Modernism" (chair: Priya Joshi)
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC
BA (cum laude), English Literature, May 2004
PUBLICATIONS
"Sounding Dismodernism in James Joyce's Ulysses." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 13.1 (2019): TBD.
"An Impatient Modernist: Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernist Cultures 10.1 (Spring 2015): 83-98.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (Spring 2011): 87-105.
SELECTED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Two Women Broadcasters and a Critique of Postcolonialism." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
"Story, Story: Voices from the Global Marketplace." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
“Bush House, the BBC, and Transnational Modernism.” Keynote. BBC and the World Service: Debts & Legacies, King’s College, London, UK, February 2017.
"Lagos and London: Wole Soyinka and Anglophone Literary Broadcasting." Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
"Talking Books: Print Culture and the Sonic Turn in India." Society for the History of Authors, Readers, & Publishers, Paris, France, July 2016.
"Ventriloquizing Radio Drama: V. S. Pritchett's Mash-Up History." Modern Language Association, Austin, January 2016.
"Documents that Move and Speak: Asa Briggs and the BBC Archives Administration." Modernist Studies Association, Boston, November 2015.
"Broadcast as World Literature: Charting the Waves of the Wake." Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
"Sounding British Culture: C. L. R. James at the BBC." Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2012.
"An ‘Impatient Modernist:’ Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group, University of Pennsylvania, November 2011.
"Britannia Rules the Waves: The BBC’s The Listener as Print Contact Zone 1929- 1940." Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1890-1940, University of Delaware, September 2011.
"Your Friend the Phonograph: Advertising the Virtual Voice in Early Film." Virtual Histories: 11th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 2011.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 2011.
"Talking to India: The BBC and Indian Print Culture 1929-1947." 39th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2010.
"The (Mal)function of the Gramophone in Woolf’s Between the Acts." The 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University of Ohio, June 2007.
CONFERENCE SEMINARS ORGANIZED
"Speaking Through the Archive: Global Modernism and Postcolonial Networks." (w/ Sejal Sutaria, King's College, London), Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Best Graduate Mentor, English Graduate Organization, University of Nevada
Director's Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant, Temple University
Graduate Associate Fellowship: Center for the Humanities, Temple University
Beebe Award (for best seminar paper on twentieth-century literature): “Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster and Empire Broadcasting.” Dept. of English, Temple University
Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Center for the Humanities, Temple University
CURATED EXHIBITION
“Thy Father’s Spirit: Paternity in and of Ulysses.” The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, June-September 2013
CURATED EVENT SERIES
“Sounding Identity” (with Louis Nieber, Dept. of Music), Gender, Race and Identity Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2015-2016).
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of English (2015-Present)
Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
Global Modernism, the Archive, and Theories of Totality (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Graduate Studies (graduate seminar)
Teenage Wasteland: Joyce, O'Brien, and the Problem of Irish Youth
The History and Future of the Book (graduate seminar)
The Modern World (Core Humanities)
Queer Modernism
Globalization and Literature
University of Delaware, Dept. of English, Instructor (2013-2015)
Tools of Textual Analysis
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings—1660
Critical Reading & Writing
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor (2012-13)
Ulysses Reading Course
Temple University, Dept. of English, Instructor (2006-13)
Modernism, Media, and “Camparative Accoustomology” (advanced seminar)
Literature and Criticism
The Short Story
Introduction to Non-Fiction
Introduction to Literature
Writing for Business and Industry
First-Year Writing
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
The International Virginia Woolf Society
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Society for Novel Studies
REFERENCES
Available on request.
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Department of English & Affiliate Faculty, Gender, Race, and Identity Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2015--Present)
EDUCATION
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA
PhD (with distinction), English Literature, May 2014
Dissertation: "Fiction on the Radio: Remediating Transnational Modernism" (chair: Priya Joshi)
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC
BA (cum laude), English Literature, May 2004
PUBLICATIONS
"Sounding Dismodernism in James Joyce's Ulysses." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 13.1 (2019): TBD.
"An Impatient Modernist: Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernist Cultures 10.1 (Spring 2015): 83-98.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (Spring 2011): 87-105.
SELECTED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Two Women Broadcasters and a Critique of Postcolonialism." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
"Story, Story: Voices from the Global Marketplace." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
“Bush House, the BBC, and Transnational Modernism.” Keynote. BBC and the World Service: Debts & Legacies, King’s College, London, UK, February 2017.
"Lagos and London: Wole Soyinka and Anglophone Literary Broadcasting." Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
"Talking Books: Print Culture and the Sonic Turn in India." Society for the History of Authors, Readers, & Publishers, Paris, France, July 2016.
"Ventriloquizing Radio Drama: V. S. Pritchett's Mash-Up History." Modern Language Association, Austin, January 2016.
"Documents that Move and Speak: Asa Briggs and the BBC Archives Administration." Modernist Studies Association, Boston, November 2015.
"Broadcast as World Literature: Charting the Waves of the Wake." Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
"Sounding British Culture: C. L. R. James at the BBC." Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2012.
"An ‘Impatient Modernist:’ Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group, University of Pennsylvania, November 2011.
"Britannia Rules the Waves: The BBC’s The Listener as Print Contact Zone 1929- 1940." Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1890-1940, University of Delaware, September 2011.
"Your Friend the Phonograph: Advertising the Virtual Voice in Early Film." Virtual Histories: 11th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 2011.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 2011.
"Talking to India: The BBC and Indian Print Culture 1929-1947." 39th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2010.
"The (Mal)function of the Gramophone in Woolf’s Between the Acts." The 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University of Ohio, June 2007.
CONFERENCE SEMINARS ORGANIZED
"Speaking Through the Archive: Global Modernism and Postcolonial Networks." (w/ Sejal Sutaria, King's College, London), Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Best Graduate Mentor, English Graduate Organization, University of Nevada
Director's Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant, Temple University
Graduate Associate Fellowship: Center for the Humanities, Temple University
Beebe Award (for best seminar paper on twentieth-century literature): “Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster and Empire Broadcasting.” Dept. of English, Temple University
Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Center for the Humanities, Temple University
CURATED EXHIBITION
“Thy Father’s Spirit: Paternity in and of Ulysses.” The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, June-September 2013
CURATED EVENT SERIES
“Sounding Identity” (with Louis Nieber, Dept. of Music), Gender, Race and Identity Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2015-2016).
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of English (2015-Present)
Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
Global Modernism, the Archive, and Theories of Totality (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Graduate Studies (graduate seminar)
Teenage Wasteland: Joyce, O'Brien, and the Problem of Irish Youth
The History and Future of the Book (graduate seminar)
The Modern World (Core Humanities)
Queer Modernism
Globalization and Literature
University of Delaware, Dept. of English, Instructor (2013-2015)
Tools of Textual Analysis
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings—1660
Critical Reading & Writing
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor (2012-13)
Ulysses Reading Course
Temple University, Dept. of English, Instructor (2006-13)
Modernism, Media, and “Camparative Accoustomology” (advanced seminar)
Literature and Criticism
The Short Story
Introduction to Non-Fiction
Introduction to Literature
Writing for Business and Industry
First-Year Writing
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
The International Virginia Woolf Society
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Society for Novel Studies
REFERENCES
Available on request.
