I teach at Penn State University, where I recently earned a Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition. My scholarly and teaching interests include feminist rhetorics, historiography, visual rhetorics, multimodal composition, and technical writing. My current book project explores rhetorics (and rhetorical silences) of unwed pregnancy in the United States. This project builds upon my dissertation, “Secrets and Silences: Rhetorics of Unwed Pregnancy Since 1960,” which won the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s 2013 James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award. 



I graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Mount Union (formerly Mount Union College), an M.A. in English from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, and an M.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at Penn State, I served as the Assistant Coordinator for the PSU Graduate Writing Center, was a Center for Democratic Deliberation fellow, and served as a teaching mentor for Penn State’s Rhetoric and Writing program.

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I will soon join the faculty of the University of Alaska, Anchorage as an Assistant Professor of English.