I am an interdisciplinary scholar-curator, educator, and museum leader. I currently serve as Director of Public Engagement at the Yale Peabody Museum, where I lead cross-functional teams across exhibitions, education, and public programming. Previously, I held a range of roles related to curatorial research, academic engagement, and community partnerships at the Barnes Foundation, the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. I also teach in the fields of modern and contemporary art, visual culture, and mass media, including a popular course on the cultural politics of reality television.
As a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first century visual culture, literature, and popular media, my peer-reviewed research has appeared in American Literature, Modernism/modernity, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Grey Room, and I often write criticism and short-form essays for more public venues. I am currently finishing a book on the visual culture of antifascism from the 1930s to the present.
I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in June 2020 where I also held a postdoctoral fellowship until 2022. My research has been supported by fellowships from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Nicholson Center for British Studies, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. I earned my MA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and my BA from the University of South Carolina-Columbia. I also completed a certificate in Spanish Language and Culture at the Universidad de Granada. Between finishing my undergraduate degree and entering graduate school, I lived in Barcelona and taught English at a public elementary school in Igualada where I learned Catalan. I am originally from rural South Carolina.