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EDUCATION

• M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Temple University, 2022
• Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University, 2010
• M.A., Department of English, Temple University, 2007
• B.A., summa cum laude with distinction in English, Rosemont College, 2002

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Chestnut Hill Therapy Collective, Philadelphia, PA
  Therapist, August 2022-present
• St. Luke’s Penn Foundation, North Wales, PA
  Mental Health Technician, May 2022-present
• The Therapy Group, West Chester, PA
  Intern, 2021-2022
  Practicum counseling trainee, 2021

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  Associate Professor of Instruction, 2017-present
  Assistant Professor of Instruction, 2011-2017

AWARDS AND HONORS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “‘That Flexible Flageolet’: Music, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism in George Du Maurier’s Trilby.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 21.4 (2019), 476-492.
• “Re-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and ‘the Jew’ in The Way We Live Now.” The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Routledge, 2017.
• “The Condition of Music in Victorian Scholarship.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44 (2016), 423-437.
• “The Chinese Language and the Saturday Review: A Case Study in Sinophobia’s Scholarly Roots.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015), 431-444.
• “Oscar Wilde in Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Exhibition.” Victorian Periodicals Review 48.2 (Summer 2015), 278-280.
• “Servants and the Victorian Sensation Novel.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54.4 (Autumn 2014), 835-851.
• “Music and New Woman Aesthetics in Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus.” Victorian Review 40.1 (Spring 2014), 135-154.

PAPERS PRESENTED

• “Sex and the Other: Changing Representations of POC in Romance Novels by White Authors.” Northeast Popular Culture Association, 20-22 October 2022.
• “Making Strangers: Sinophobia, Irrationality, and Categorization.” Tracing Xenophobia and Racism in the Era of COVID-19, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, October 28, 2020.
• “Simone de Beauvoir in the Classroom: Analytic and Existential Approaches.” Women in Core Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Temple University, 16-17 March 2018.
• “A Classic Case of Projection: Victorian Fears and Chinese Music.” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 22-23 September 2017.
• “A Canon By and For the Working Class: Reassessing the Role of Music Periodicals in the English Musical Renaissance.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of Delaware, 12-13 September 2014.
• “Reflecting and Diffusing Binaries: Vernon Lee’s Invention of Meme Theory and the Revision of History.” British Women Writers Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY), 19-21 June 2014.
• “Fear of Equality: Music and the Body at the Fin de Siècle.” The Prose Club Lecture Series, Rosemont College, 14 May 2014.
• “The Sound of ‘That Flexible Flageolet’: Homophobia in George Du Maurier’s Trilby.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Susquehanna University, 3-6 April 2014.
• “Questioning the Origins of British Sinophobia.” Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies, University of Delaware, 1-3 November 2013.
• “‘That Terrible Language’: Chinese, Typewriters, and Late-Victorian Sinophobia.” North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Southern California Dornsife, 23-27 October 2013.
• “Technology, Imperialism, and Victorian Perceptions of China.” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), 27-28 September 2013.
• “Inventing Inscrutability: The Chinese Language in the Saturday Review.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of Texas at Austin, 14-15 September 2012.
• “Listening to Vernon Lee.” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Pennsylvania State University at Abington, 26-27 March 2011.
• “The Troubled Song of Sappho: Writing Sappho as Musician, Not Poet.” Victorians Institute Conference, Converse College, 16-17 October 2009.
• “Trollope’s Anti-Anti-Semitism.” Trollope and Gender, University of Exeter, 17-19 July 2006.

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Counseling Association
• American Psychological Association
• Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology