Research and Teaching Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture; transnational American Studies; animal and animality studies; ecocriticism; environmental humanities; disability studies; neurodiversity studies; illness narratives; gender and sexuality studies; posthumanism; biopolitics.
Education
- PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Virginia
- MA, Literature and the Environment, University of Nevada, Reno
- BA, English, University of Pennsylvania
Academic Positions
- Fellow in Residence, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (January - June 2024)
- Professor of English-Language Literature, Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages, University of Oslo (2016 - present)
- Associate Professor of English-Language Literature, Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages, University of Oslo (2013 - 2016)
- Assistant Professor of English, Colorado State University (2008 - 2013)
- Visiting Researcher, Centre for Gender Studies, Uppsala University (2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Department of English, Syracuse University (2007 - 2008)