EMPLOYMENT
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Associate Professor, Department of English, 2023-present
Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2020-23
Affiliations: Minor in Digital Humanities, New Media and Culture Certificate, Center for the Study of Women in Society
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Assistant Professor of English, 2016-20
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Ph.D. in English, 2016
Minor: History of Science
Languages: French, Computer Programming
M.A. in English, 2011
New York University, New York, NY
B.A. in English and American Literature, 2009
B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2009
Honors: summa cum laude; Highest Honors, English Department
RESEARCH
Monograph
Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. 272 pages.
Peer-Reviewed Digital Project
Principal Investigator and Project Director, London Stage Database, londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
Articles
- “Re-mediating The Female American: Collaboration and Situated Knowledges in the Digital Humanities Classroom.” Co-authored with Rachel Combs, Kathleen Gekiere, Kimberly Olivar, and Nikki Cain. Resources for American Literary Study 45.1 (2023): 31-63. https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.45.1.0031
- “From Manual to Digital: Women’s Hands and the Work of Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 52 (2023): 491-516. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/883244
- “Nobodies and Somebodies: Embodying Precarity on the Early Modern English Stage.” Theatre Survey 63.2 (2022): 205-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000072
- “Plague Literature and Pandemic Pedagogy.” Restoration 45.2 (2021): 37-46. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/849021
- “Recovering the London Stage Information Bank: Lessons in Preservation from an Early Humanities Computing Project.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11.3 (2017). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/3/000321/000321.html
- “Archives, Numbers, Meaning: The Eighteenth-Century Playbill at Scale.” Co-authored with Mark Vareschi. Theatre Journal 68.4 (2016): 597-613. https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0108
- “‘Virtue is as much debased as our Money:’ Generic and Economic Instability in Love’s Last Shift.” Modern Philology 114.1 (2016): 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1086/686632
- “‘An infusion of the modern spirit into the ancient form:’ Textual Objects and Historical Consciousness in George Eliot’s Romola.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 62 (2012). http://erudit.org/revue/ravon/2012/v/n62/1026002ar.html
Book Chapters
- “Materialisms and the Cultural Turn in Digital Humanities.” In Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, 167-184. Edited by Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.
- “Plotting the ‘Female Wits’ Controversy: Gender, Genre, and Printed Plays, 1670-1699.” In Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn, 35-59. Edited by Laura Estill, Diane Jackaki, and Michael Ullyot. Tempe: Iter/Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
Reviews
- “Trivial Pursuit: The Anecdote as Evidence in Theater History.” Review of English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800, for Eighteenth-Century Life 49.1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11523800
- Corrosive Solace: Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 for Eighteenth-Century Studies 57.4 (2024): 569-571. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a931703
- The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. 4. for Early Modern Women 17.2 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1086/721909
- Literature in Context for Reviews in Digital Humanities 3.2 (2022): https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.72a81b60
- Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship for Renaissance Quarterly 72.3 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2019.359
- Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries for British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2012): https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/digital-defoe
Public Humanities Projects
Selected Awards
External
- NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level III), 2024-27
- ASECS Innovative Course Design Award, 2019
- NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level II), 2018-19
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Award, 2017, 2013
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2015
Internal
- Faculty Mentor for SURF Humanities Fellow, 2024
- Provost’s Summer Stipend for Humanities Faculty, University of Oregon, 2022
- Sustainability Fellowship, Mellon Just Futures Initiative, University of Oregon, 2021-22
- Book Publication Subvention, Oregon Humanities Center, 2021
- Gender Grant, Center for Women and Gender, Utah State University, 2017
Funded Project Participation
- Advisory Board Member, “Theatronomics” (European Research Council), University of Galway, 2021-23
- Collaborator, “Powering Digital Humanities Teaching and Learning with Static Web Approaches” (NEH), University of Oregon and University of Idaho, 2021-22
- Project Lead, “Social Justice in Digital Spaces” (Tanner Charitable Trust), Utah State University, 2019-20
- Participant, “Sustaining Digital Humanities” (NEH), Brigham Young University, 2019
- Visiting Faculty Member, “Early Modern Digital Agendas: Network Analysis,” (NEH), Folger Shakespeare Library, 2017
- Research Assistant, “Visualizing English Print” (Mellon Foundation), University of Wisconsin, 2012-13
Invited Talks
- “Speculative Enterprise.” Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture, Columbia University, 2025
- “Not Acted These Twenty Years”: What Eighteenth-Century Theater Can Teach Us about Sustaining Digital Humanities.” Early Modern Lecture Series. Center for Print, Networks, and Performance, Carnegie Mellon University, 2024
- Pre-performance talk for A Bickerstaff’s Burying. ASECS Theatre and Performance Studies Caucus (virtual), 2021
- “The London Stage Database: Recovering Past Digital Humanities Projects for Future Users.” Digital Matters Speaker Series, University of Utah, 2019
- “The London Stage Database.” Radcliffe Seminar: National Theaters Across the Channel, Harvard University, 2018
Invited Plenary and Semi-Plenary Sessions
- “Shakespeare in the London Stage Database.” Semi-Plenary Panel, SAA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2019
- Closing Plenary Panelist, Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities, Weber State University, 2019
- “Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research.” Fellows Panel, ACLS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2018
Conference Presentations
- “Intermedial Remediations: Periodical Sources in the London Stage Database,” ASECS, virtual, 2025
- “Engaging Family Historians through Open Scholarship,” ASECS, Toronto, 2024
- “Digital Exhibit: The London Stage Database,” SAA, Portland, 2024
- “‘You Are Literally Here:’ Where Your DH Project Lives, and Why It Matters,” ASECS, St. Louis, 2023
- “Reparative Processing in the Digital Humanities Classroom.” Digital Pedagogy Institute, virtual, 2022
- “Reckoning with Race in Behn’s Emperor of the Moon.” ASECS, Baltimore, 2022
- “The London Stage and the Invisible Work of Women,” ASECS, virtual, 2021
- “Gender, Race, and Colonial Science on the Restoration Stage.” MLA, Seattle, 2020
- “Beyond Oroonoko: Staging Colonial Science in Behn’s Emperor of the Moon,” ASECS, Denver, 2019
- “Financial and Professional Networks in the Restoration Theater,” MLA, New York City, 2018
- “Women at the Theater-Finance Nexus: The Case of Susanna Centlivre,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, 2017
- “The South Sea Bubble, the Periodical Press, and the Event Structure of Colley Cibber’s The Refusal,” ASECS, Minneapolis, 2017
- “From Humanities Computing to Digital Humanities,” with Todd Hugie, Utah Digital Humanities Symposium, Salt Lake City, 2017
- “Predatory Lending: The South Sea Bubble and The Conscious Lovers,” ASECS, Pittsburgh, 2016
- “Digital Preservation 1.0: The Curious Case of the London Stage Information Bank (1970-78).” MLA, Vancouver, 2015
- “Querying The London Stage: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Performances.” ASECS, Williamsburg, 2014
- “Quantifying Generic Change in Late Restoration Drama.” MLA, Boston, 2013
- “Confronting the Problem of Historical Knowledge in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year.” ASECS, San Antonio, 2012
On-Campus Lectures and Talks
- “AI and the Humanities.” Humanities Matter Series, Oregon Homanities Center, 2024
- “Inclusive Teaching at UO.” Teaching Engagement Program, 2023
- “Environmental and Sociotechnical Sustainability in Digital Humanities Pedagogy,” Futures of Work Symposium, Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute, 2022
- “Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763.” OHC Works-in-Print series, Oregon Humanities Center, 2022
- “Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763,” English Department Works-in-Print series, University of Oregon, 2022
Panels and Conferences Organized and Chaired
- Roundtable Co-Organizer, “How WE Built this: Collaborative Work in the Digital Humanities (In Memory of Scott Enderle),” ASECS, Toronto, 2024
- Panel Co-Organizer, “Performance and Digital Technologies,” ASECS, St. Louis, 2023
- Session Co-Organizer, “Sustainability and the Politics of Digital Humanities Infrastructure,” International Digital Humanities Conference, virtual, July 2022
- Roundtable Organizer, “Centering Marginalized Voices in Digital Humanities,” ASECS, Baltimore, 2022
- Roundtable Co-Organizer, “Interfaces,” ASECS, Denver, 2019
Workshop Participation
- “Anti-Capitalist Form: A Seminar with a Common Text.” ASECS, Toronto, 2024
- “Anti-Racist Pedagogies.” University of Texas-San Antonio (virtual), 2021
- “Restoration Theater: Re-Activating the R/18 Repertoire.” Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Chicago (virtual), 2021
- “The Mississippi Bubble: Unpacking an Early Modern Economic Catastrophe.” Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Chicago (virtual), 2020
- “Extracting Cultural Networks from Thematic Research Collections.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2017
- “Transcribing and Describing Primary Materials in TEI.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2013
- “The Folger Digital Folio of Renaissance Drama for the 21st Century.” Folger Shakespeare Library, 2012
TEACHING
Courses Taught at University of Oregon
- ENG 645: Technologies of Empire
- ENG 486/586: New Media and Digital Culture
- ENG 470/570: Technologies and Texts (DH Capstone)
- ENG 448: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
- ENG 410/510: Digital Storytelling
- ENG 250: Literature and Digital Culture
- ENG 205: Genre – Plague Literature
- ENG 105: Introduction to Literature – Drama
Courses Taught at Utah State University
- ENG 6330 Haunted by History: The Deep Eighteenth Century
- ENG 4360 Studies in Film
- ENG 4300 Shakespeare
- ENG 3325 Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- ENG 2600 Literary Analysis
SERVICE
Service to the Field
- Board Member, SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Johns Hopkins University Press (2024-present)
- Peer Reviewer, Huntington Library Quarterly, Digital Humanities Quarterly, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Routledge Press, 18thConnect, Folger Institute, and IEEE VIS (Visualization for Digital Humanities) Sub-Conference
- Co-Chair, ASECS Digital Humanities Caucus, 2017-19 (Member, 2015-present)
Service to University of Oregon
Administrative Appointments
- Director, Minor in Digital Humanities, Department of English, 2022-present
- Co-Designer and Domain Liaison, Cultural Analytics Emphasis, Data Science Initiative, 2022-present
- Interim Director, New Media and Culture Certificate, Graduate Division, 2023-24
Conference and Workshop Organization
- Member, Planning Committee, Data|Media|Digital Graduate Symposium, 2023, 2024
- Workshop Co-Organizer, “Navigating Generative AI in Scholarship and Pedagogy,” 2023
Technical Advisory Service
- Faculty Web Development Consultant, Department of English, 2023
- Web Content Manager, Academic Support Unit #3, 2023
- Instructional and Administrative Content Accessibility Advisory Collaborative, 2023
- Web Administrator, Minor in Disability Studies, 2022-23
- RFQ Evaluation Team Member, Collaborative Learning Annotation Tool, UO Online, 2021
- Faculty Participant, Annotation Tools for Canvas Pilot, UO Online, 2021-21
Committee Service, University
- OVPRI Review Council, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, 2024-2026
Committee Service, Department of English
- Ad Hoc Committee on the English Major, 2024-25
- Search Committee, Digital Rhetoric, 2023-24
- Disability Studies Executive Board, 2022-23
- Data Committee, 2021-22
- Digital Humanities Advisory Board, 2020-22
Service to Utah State University
Interdisciplinary Leadership
- Co-Founder, Coordinator (2016-2018), and Chair (2018-2020), DH@USU Digital Humanities Working Group
Committee Service, Department of English
- Chair, Course Development Committee, Digital Humanities, 2018-20
- Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate Literature, 2016-20
- Curriculum Committee, Master’s in English, 2016-20
- Search Committee, Director of Composition, 2018-19
- Admissions Committee, M.S. in Technical Communication Program, 2018
- Ad-Hoc Committee, Composing a Commitment to Diversity Statement, 2017
