PhD Candidate, Loyola University Chicago, 2009 - Present; expected completion, 2015

MA, Loyola University Chicago, 2009

BA, Vanderbilt University, 2003

Historic Royal Palaces, Bursary for The Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World Conference, Kensington Palace, London, U.K., June 2012

Merit Award Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15

My broad research interests lie in the relationship between emotions and power structures. My dissertation analyzes the ways that affective rhetoric reflects the chainging relationship between the court and the public sphere in early eighteenth-century England. During this period, the public sphere took the court's place as arbiter of culture. By charting the changes in affective rhetoric, this project offers insight into the ways the monarch became part of the public sphere as the the court's influence declined.

"‘Share with me in my Grief and Affliction’: Royal Sorrow and Public Mourning in Early Eighteenth-Century England," Parergon 31.2 (forthcoming, Dec. 2014).

"'Share with me in my Grief and Affliction': Royal Mourning in the Public Sphere, 1702-1727", Midwest Confernce on British Studies, DePaul University, October 2013 (convener)

“Affective Relationships and Political Authority in the Commemoration of William III’s Entry into The Hague”, Midwest Conference on British Studies, Baldwin Wallace College, October 2010

“Love and Politics in the Exegesis of Hrabanus Maurus”, Midwest Medieval History Conference, Notre Dame University, September 2009

“Clothed in Virtue: The Imperial Body in Hrabanus Maurus’s Exegesis for Empress Judith”,  Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, St. Louis University, October 2008