Research Areas

Renaissance literature, intellectual history, history of the book, feminist historiography, history of feminist thought

Biography

I’m a PhD candidate in French with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS). In my dissertation, I study how French Renaissance writers variously defined, endorsed, and rejected theories of historical narrative in their literary texts. I also work on feminist intellectual history, especially the history of feminist thought in the twentieth century and—more recently—the role of the counterfactual in contemporary feminist historiography and literature. 

Before coming to Berkeley, I graduated from Miami University with a BA in French and English Literature and an MA in French. I then read for an MSt in Modern Languages at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. I finished my Oxford degree with a Distinction, having also won the faculty's Gerard Davis Prize for the best MSt dissertation on a topic in French literary studies. I was subsequently honored at Oxford's Encaenia ceremony in 2021 for my performance on the MSt.

I am a recipient of the Berkeley Fellowship and, as of 2023, I'm the REMS Graduate Representative. Outside of school, I like to play tennis, rollerblade, hike, and watch rom coms.

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed

"Being 'time-bound': Montaigne on touch, contagion, and the contemporary." Early Modern French Studies 46, no. 1 (2024): 16-33. [published online January 2023]

Public writing

"Women's Land and Language: Huntington, Vermont" (with Annabel Barry, Anna Park, and Jadie Stillwell). Public Books. February 29, 2024.

"Compulsory heterosexuality, past and present: Adrienne Rich and the Lesbian Masterdoc." The Heteropessimism Cluster, edited by Annabel Barry, Caroline Godard, and Jane Ward. Post45: Contemporaries. July 13, 2023.

"Introduction" (with Annabel Barry and Jane Ward). The Heteropessimism Cluster, edited by Annabel Barry, Caroline Godard, and Jane Ward. Post45: Contemporaries. July 13, 2023.

"Happening captures the horrifying everydayness of illegal abortion." LitHub. May 4, 2022.

"Residual time." Diacritics blog. August 5, 2020.