Curriculum Vitae.

EDUCATION

Emory University

Ph.D. in English, 2016

Boston University

M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry), 2008

Columbia University

Columbia Publishing Course, Graduate School of Journalism, August 2005

Harvard University

A.B. cum laude in History and Literature (honors thesis, magna cum laude), 2005

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Centenary College of Louisiana

Assistant Professor, English, 2018-present

Emory University

Visiting Assistant Professor, English and Creative Writing, 2016-2018

PUBLICATIONS

Poetry Book

The Borrowed World. Winner of the Able Muse Book Award.  San Jose, CA: Able

Muse Press, July 2016.

Poetry in Periodicals

Paris Review (forthcoming 2021); The Common 19 (April 2020); Crab Orchard Review 23:2 (October 2018); Literary Matters 10:3 (Summer 2018);32 Poems (Spring/Summer 2017); Literary Matters 9:3 (Spring/Summer 2017); Poetry Daily (November 2016); Blackbird (November 2015); Southwest Review 100:2 (Spring 2015); Iron Horse Literary Review 17:2 (April 2015); Unsplendid 5.3 + 6.1 (July 2014) and 2:2 (2009); The Raintown Review 11:1 (February 2013) and 10:2 (February 2012); New Ohio Review Issue 12 (Fall 2012); Harvard Divinity Bulletin 40.3-4 (Fall 2012); South Loop Review Vol. 12 (2012); Able Muse Issue 11 (Summer 2011); Sewanee Theological Review 55:2 (Spring 2012); Measure 4:2 (2009); Literary Imagination 12:1 (2010).

Journal Articles and Reviews

“‘New with Loss’: Armen Davoudian’s Swan Song.” Kenyon Review (forthcoming Jan/Feb 2021).

“Interpretive Imagination: Jonathan S. F. Post’s A Thickness of Particulars.” Literary Matters 10:3 (Summer 2018).

“Traveling Figures and Figures of Travel in the ‘The Arkansas Testament’: Derek

Walcott’s Quarrel with the American South.” The Global South 10:1 (Spring 2017): 85-106.

“Anthony Hecht’s Little Book.” The Hopkins Review 7:3 (Summer 2014): 336-345.

“Poet in Profile: Natasha Trethewey: Poem Analysis of ‘Give and Take.’” The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation 1:2 (Summer 2015).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

At Centenary College of Louisiana: Introduction to Literature; Creative Writing workshops (Poetry, Fiction, Literary Journalism); Contemporary Poetry, British Literary Traditions; Americans in Paris; Utopias in Literature and Film; Literature and Landscape; Writing, Editing, Publishing; First-Year Writing.

At Emory University: Writing about Literature (Ghost Stories; 20th-Century Literature of Self Discovery); Creative Nonfiction; The 20th-Century American Lyric, Contemporary American Poetry, Introduction to Fiction Writing; Expository Writing (Metaphors in Our Lives; Writing About War in the 20th Century); Memory and the Lyric; Introduction to Poetry Writing; Intermediate Poetry; Research Methodology.

At Boston University: Introduction to Creative Writing

At National Cathedral School: Creative Writing and English courses. 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Traveling Ghazal: Shahid Ali Reimagines Loss and the Scale of Elegy.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2019.

“The Winding Stair: Teaching Formal Poetry.” Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Tampa, FL, March 2018.

“Metaphor, Measurement, and Poetic Limits: Sinéad Morrissey’s Parallax (2013).” Southern Chapter of American Conference for Irish Studies, Lexington, KY, March 2017.

“Eavan Boland’s Infinite Ireland: Women, History, and the Imaginary List.” Southern Chapter of American Conference for Irish Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 2016.

“‘Cold Philosophy’: Poetry, Poetics, and the Sciences.”American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, March 2016.

“Seamus Heaney: The Place of Writing.” American Conference of Irish Studies, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2015.

“My Twin, My Brother: T.S. Eliot, Charles Baudelaire, and the Moral Imagination.” T.S. Eliot 34th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, September 2012.           

“Lists that Remember: Memorialization in Michael Longley and Eavan Boland.” American Conference of Irish Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2012.

“Accursed Poets: Translating Baudelaire and his Followers.” Southeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2011.

Graduate Students Poetry Circle. Southeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2011.

SELECTED EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Editorial Assistant for Poetry Editor, The Atlantic                               2007-2008

Editorial Assistant, Palgrave Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press                  2005-2006

REFERENCES AND FULL CV

Available upon request.