I am a literary scholar of early modern British literature and culture. At its widest points of inquiry, my research focuses on how meaning is constructed through the material forms of a text. With that framework, I have presented and published scholarship on George Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, Francis Quarles, and John Milton. My current book-length project explores a particularly literary mode of devotion facilitated by the combination of devotional poetry and the physical characteristics of early modern books.

I graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA (English Teaching) and MA (Literature) before attending The University of Alabama as a graduate student fellow in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies to complete my PhD in early modern British literature. I am on track to defend my dissertation by January 2026.

In developing my research agenda, I have had the opportunity to work closely with the archival communities at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D. C.. I am an active research affiliate of the Christian Poetics Initiative, a global research network supported by Yale’s Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts, and I also maintain professional memberships with the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, the John Donne Society, and the Sixteenth Century Society.

At the University of Alabama, I teach a variety of courses including First-Year Writing, Academic Research, Literature Surveys, and Honors College Special Topics. In 2025, I was awarded the University’s premier award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student.

In addition to my professional responsibilities, I enjoy going for long drives, being outside with my dog, and cheering for Utah Jazz basketball.