About Me

I am an Associate Professor of Literature and Languages in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee as well as the university’s advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society. Additionally, I am an Instructor of Data Science for the Data Science and AI Academy at North Carolina State University.

I hold a B.A. in English Literature from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Medieval English Literature from the University of Leeds in Leeds, England, and a Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (Dissertation title: “Networked Artifacts: Materiality, Medieval Texts, and the Digital Response”; defense date: 22 June 2021) from NC State University, where I also earned a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. Currently, I am completing my Masters of Science in Data Science (M.S.D.S.) witha focus on bioinformatics at Christian Brothers University.

Previously, I was a visiting lecturer for the Digital Humanities Summer Minor at the University of California, Berkeley and taught the course, “Digital Humanities, Data, and Ethical Representation,” for the 2023 Summer Academy at the Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá, Colombia. I am the President for the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina, an Associate Editor for the journal, Digital Medievalist, and a former Review Editor for Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.