Coming Up: On April 21, 2025, I’ll be having a conversation with Claire O’Callaghan, Editor in Chief of Brontë Studies, in celebration of Charlotte Brontë’s birthday. This event is hosted online by the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. Follow the link for more information.

I was thrilled to be one of the recipients of the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Science Distinguished Recent Alumni Awards. Thank you to Ted Koditschek from the History Department for nominating me! The ceremony was held on March 6, 2025. The best part was revisiting my alma mater for a week and seeing all of the interesting work their current History and English majors are doing.

Image from Wikimedia Commons

I recently received the Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize for my piece on the early reception of Jane Eyre and the novel’s complex feminist legacy. Check out the journal’s Instagram announcement here and click on the link below for the essay.

I’m honored to have received the 2024 National Council on Public History Excellence in Consulting Award for my work on the Mina’s Place of Business project at Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

For more information, see the NCPH award announcement linked below.

Image courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Image courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park

You can read more about the “Mina’s Place of Business” project and my work in this feature published by the National Park Foundation.

Click here to hear my recent guest appearance on the Ghoulfriends podcast! We discussed Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1871-72) and queer Victorian vampires.

Follow the link below for a write-up about my public history work on the University of Missouri College of Arts & Science website.