I am a Ph.D. candidate in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), focusing on British and American Modernism. My dissertation, “The Einstein of English Fiction”: James Joyce, the New Physics, and Modernist Print Culture, uses periodical studies and genetic criticism to explore the impact of the relativity theories on the development of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). It looks at the manner in which magazines and books that popularized Einstein affected arguments about literary form in British avant-garde and general print culture, turning up previously unstudied pamphlets and radio broadcasts at the British Library and the BBC Archives. I also have strong research interests in textual scholarship and digital humanities with an emphasis on archives. One of my digital humanities projects, The Ecclesiastical Proust Archive, combines aspects of an edition and an archive in order to find new ways of exploring Proust, narrative, and media.
In addition to being a researcher and teacher, I have been an instructional technologist with the Macaulay Honors College since Fall 2004.