Academic CV

Education

Master of Arts, English

University of Delaware (2025)

Museum Studies Certificate

University of Delaware (2025)

Bachelor's of Arts, English

University of Delaware (2023)

Awards

University Graduate Scholar Award

University of Delaware (2025-2026)

University Graduate Scholar Award

University of Delaware (2024-2025)

Professional Experience

Research Intern, First State National Historical Park (2025)

Created a Lenape-centric program titled “Cultural Change Through Trade”
Designed four Ranger Talks for the general public on the topic of cultural change through trade.

Research Intern, Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs (2025)

Created the African Americans of Revolutionary New Castle Database
Research African American residents and enslaved persons in New Castle, Delaware, during and around the Revolutionary War period through a variety of historical documents, including manumission records, land records, probates, wills, and census records.

Scholarship & Creative Work

Published:

“The Impossible-Possible Task of Finding Hidden Voices”

Article published in the HCA Newsletter (2025)

“The Woman"

Fiction short story published in Caesura Literary Magazine (2023)

Performed Written Work:

“Deadlines and Other Things”

playscript performed by E-52 Theatre Club, University of Delaware (2022)

“SASTpocalypse”

playscript performed by E-52 Theatre Club, University of Delaware (2021)

Presentations

"Legacy and Landscape: Henry and Catherine's Story"

Middletown Historical Society, Middletown, DE September 2026

John Dickinson Plantation, Dover, DE September 2026

"Eye of the Writer: How the Unconscious Controls Depictions of Race"

Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Philadelphia, March 2025

"Skin and Race in Ex Machina"

Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Delaware, May 2023

Teaching

Undergraduate:

“Introduction to Science Fiction and Fantasy” Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware (2024)

Cofacilitate classroom discussions for 50 students
Responsible for grading 20-25 students
Facilitate one major class lecture
Cofacilitate one major text

“Seminar in Composition” Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware (2023)

Cofacilitate classroom discussions for 27 students
Responsible for the grading and conferencing of 5 students
Responsible for one major class lecture and collaboration on a second major class lecture
Hold student office hours

“Studies in Popular Fiction: Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts” Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware (2023)

Cofacilitate classroom discussions for 50 students
In charge of grading for 25 students
Responsible for tracking class attendance
Facilitate 2 class lectures

Academic Service Work

Graduate Fiction Editor, Caesura Literary Magazine, University of Delaware (2023-2026)

Manage fiction genre submissions, guide undergraduate editors in the submissions process, and copyedit submissions.

Undergraduate Editor, Caesura Literary Magazine, University of Delaware (2021-2023)

Participate in the submission selection process and edit submissions.

Editor, E-52 Theatre Club Newsletter, University of Delaware (2021-2022)

Create, organize, and publish the theatre club newsletter twice a year.

Volunteer Work

Membership Chair, Maclary Elementary PTA (2018-2022)

Create and oversee fundraising activities for school programs, recruit new members, educate parents and guardians about the PTA and their events, collect and record membership dues.