I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Kettering University, where I teach and research across climate change and resilience, ecocriticism, and science and technology studies.

I am also the Principal Investigator of “Climate Resilient Flint: Building Community-Driven Climate Resilience through Hyperlocal Science-to-Civics Learning in Flint, MI,” a project in partnership with Flint community organizations and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Environmental Literacy Program (Award Number: NA22SEC0080008). In March 2022, I completed an environmental resilience consultancy project for “Building Research Capacity for Sustainable Water and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa” (BRECcIA), which was spearheaded by the University of Southampton, U.K.

I have taught the environmental humanities at Goshen College and Purdue University. My courses are interdisciplinary and urge students to explore and question how we engage with each other and our environment. For excellence in undergraduate teaching, I was awarded the Purdue Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award in 2018.

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Ph.D., Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University (2019)

MSc., Literature and Transatlanticism, Edinburgh University

B.A., English, Royal Holloway, University of London