Curriculum Vitae
(Last Updated: September 2023)
(Last Updated: September 2023)
Adaptation Studies | Female Gothic | Film and New Media
PhD, English, University of Delaware, exp. 2026
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Leitch
MA, English, CUNY Brooklyn College, 2020
Thesis: "Where are the Children? Hollywood's Depiction of Scarlett O'Hara"
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey Minter
BA, English and Political Science, SUNY Binghamton, 2015
Study Abroad Winter 2013 Term: University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana)
Articles
Published:
“Plagiarism; or, Adaptation? A Renegotiation of the Reputation of William Wells Brown." Ampersand, BU American and New England Studies Program, March 2023, https://sites.bu.edu/ampersandjournal/2023/03/07/cat-champney/.
Under Review:
"Inferior Beings, Unnatural Mothers, and a Poodle: Domestic Politics Across Doyle's Lost World Legacy." Literature/Film Quarterly, 2023.
“Frankly, My Dear, These Vampires Don’t Give a Damn: The Vampire Diaries Adapts Gone with the Wind.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 2023.
Public Writing
“Adaptation in the First-Year Writing Classroom.” OneHundredTen.Org, University of Delaware, 2022 - 2023 https://onehundredten.org/2022/10/06/adaptation-in-the-writing-classroom/
Conference Presentations
“Plagiarism; or, Adaptation? A Renogiation of the Reputation of William Wells Brown." NEMLA, Buffalo NY, March 2023.
“Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘Yellow Smooches’: The Yellow Wallpaper as Hypotext,” SCMLA, Virtual, October 2022.
“Narrative Authenticity: MTV’s Catfish and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” CST: Critical Studies in Television, Virtual, July 2022.
“The Containment of The Birth of a Nation: Epidemiology and Immunization by “Sight” in P. Djeli Clark’s Ring Shout,” NEMLA, Baltimore MD, March 2022.
“Hello, Rhett Butler: The Vampire Diaries as an Archontic Text,” PCA Vampire Studies Association, Virtual, June 2021. Recipient of “Best Fledgling Presentation”
“The Death of Intellectual Superiority: Fanfiction’s Fight for Legitimacy Against Academic Elitism,” Brooklyn College Graduate Student Association, Brooklyn NY, May 2019.
Roundtables
"Gothic Women Fight Back: Revisionist Adaptation, Reckoning, and Reluctant Immortals." Gothic Now: Updates, Revisions, Adaptations & Mash-Ups, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia PA, (forthcoming 2024).
Graduate Student Instructor, University of Delaware, Fall 2022 - Present
Writing Tutor, University of Delaware, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022, Spring 2023 - Present
Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware, Fall 2021 - Spring 2021
Adjunct Lecturer, City College of Technology, Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College, Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
Grader, Koppelman School of Business, Brooklyn College, Spring 2020 - Spring 2021
Writing Tutor, Brooklyn College, Fall 2019 - Fall 2020
Transfer Student Success Coordinator, CUNY Research Foundation, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Instructor of Record:
ENGL 110: Seminar in Composition (regular and honors sections)
ENGL 1010: English Composition I
ENGL 1012: English Composition II
Early-College English Composition I (high school students enrolled in college courses)
Early-College English Composition II (high school students enrolled in college courses)
English Composition and New Media
Teaching Assistant
English Literature for Non-Majors: Agency in Speculative Fiction (Dr. Edward Larkin)
ENGL 110: Seminar in Composition (Dr. Christine Cucciarre)
Courses Shadowed
ENGL 380/WOMS 380: Jane Eyre and Its Legacies (Dr. Margaret Stetz)
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Delaware, 2022, 2023
Departmental Travel Award, Department of English, 2022
Best Fledging Presentation, Vampire Studies Association, 2021
Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship Recipient, Brooklyn College, 2019
Treasurer, UD English Graduate Student Organization, 2023 - 2024
President, Brooklyn College Graduate English Committee, 2019 - 2020
Conference Organizer, Brooklyn College Graduate English Committee, 2018 - 2019