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CURRICULUM VITAE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, AUBURN UNIVERSITY

2015-present

DIRECTOR, 18THCONNECT.ORG

2018-present

EDUCATION

  • PhD, English. University of Missouri (2009)​

  • MA, Writing Women in Great Britain and North America, 1740-1835. Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, England. (2006)​

  • BA, English.  Bryn Mawr College (2003) cum laude with departmental honors​​

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Media cultures from 18th century to today, genre emergence, analog-digital boundaries in games, tabletop roleplaying games, "actual play" and other performances tied to games.

 

Expertise in "very long" eighteenth century (1660-1835), history of the book, print and manuscript culture, adaptation, closure and endings, correspondence, narrative theory, trans-generic interactions, olfactory language and spaces (past and present), the history and future of fan labor.

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Methodologies: bibliographic, digitally-inflected, including the creation of databases with linked open metadata.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Game Studies, Narratology, History and Future of the Book and Media Objects, History of Genres, Long Eighteenth-Century British and American Literature, Gender.

 

Digital methods in all courses, Active Learning classroom practitioner.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

 

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Refereed Publications

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Forthcoming

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  • "Declaring Independence: The Search For Authenticity in Actual Play." for Essays on Indie Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Ed. Stephanie Hedge. Studies in Gaming Series, McFarland, 2025. (November 2024)

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Under Review

  • (with Maria Alberto) Actual Play (an In Focus dossier for Journal of Cinema & Media Studies)

  • "Expanding Exandria: Narrative Adaptation & Compression in Critical Role" (essay for How Do We Want To Do This?: Critical Essays on Critical Role edited by Christopher Stuart, Lauren Woolbright, and T Passwater.

  • (with Emily M.N. Kugler) "Playable Partners: Spectrums of Queer Possibility in Indie Video Games" (essay for Pop Enlightenments: The Eighteenth Century Now, edited by Madeleine Pelling & Emrys Jones)

 

Work In Progress​​​​

  • Manuscript Novels 1760-1900 (database)

  • How Stories Are Played: How Actual Play Performances Reimagine Creative Ownership, Authenticity, and Genre. (monograph)

  • A Literary History of Alternative Circulation in the Age of Print (monograph)

  • (with D20Collective) A Critical Introduction to Dimension 20.

  • "State of Play" Editor's Introduction to "Beyond the Dungeon: Tabletop RPGs, Actual Play, and Very Longform Storytelling Now" (Post45 Contemporaries Cluster)

  • (with Emily M.N. Kugler) "Possible Past Times" (article)

  • “The Strange Afterlife of Austen’s Cancelled Chapters of Persuasion” (article)

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Other Public Writing

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Recent Book Reviews

For The Review of English Studies

  • Review of Havens, Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print (2020)

  • Review of King, Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (2019)

  • Review of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin (2018)

For The Scriblerian

  • Review of Orr, Novel Ventures (2018)

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Digital Projects

Project Lead

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  • Reading Games & Gameplay (with Evan Torner & Media Production Group)

    • Edited short-form video explainers on ideas in analog game studies and Actual Play. Currently in post-production on series pilot. Includes guest appearances from game designers and performers. (Pilot includes designer Gabe Hicks)

  • Critical Prof/Tabletop Office Hours

    • Vlog content recapping class sessions for TTRPG/Games classes.

  • Playing the Eighteenth Century (with Emily M. N. Kugler)

    • Digital video content on connections between the 18th century and modern games.

  • Critical Role Bibliography/CritRoleBib (with Maria K Alberto, @RaeLynFox, & @FirbolgForest)

    • A crowdsourced, minimal-computing bibliography for academic work on the transmedia phenomenon Critical Role

  • Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Print

    • Metadata and encoded editions of never-published manuscript fiction, 1750-1900

  • Poly Grandison: A Collaborative Digital Edition (a TypeWright-enhanced Project)

    • A digital edition of Samuel Richardson's final novel, Sir Charles Grandison.

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Advisory Board Member

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  • Electronic Enlightenment (2022-)

  • Digital Sepoltuario

  • Jane Austen's Desk [in development, UNC]

  • The Database of Eighteenth-Century Stage Properties [in development]

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PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks, Workshops, & Class Visits​

  • “Gaming: Past and Futures: A Workshop” (with Gabe Hicks, Emily Kugler, and Jeff Stormer) Invited Plenary Workshop, From Hogarth to Hypebeast: The Materiality of Popular Cultures: Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware. April 2023.

  • “The Game of Research” Keynote, University of West Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference. October 20, 2022.

  • Guest Lecture, “Studying Actual Play” University of California, Irvine GDIM 53. Roleplaying and Improvisational Play Course. March 2023.

  • Guest Lecture, “Studying Actual Play” University of Cincinnati Game Studies Course. March 21, 2022.

  • Guest Lecture, "Actual Play and Tabletop Roleplaying Games" University of California, Merced Game Studies Course. March 1, 2021

  • Guest Lecture, "I've Got All My Dragon Lore Over Here: Dragons in Critical Role and Dungeons & Dragons" Purdue University Dragon course. November 10, 2021.

  • Guest Lecture, "Narratology and Tabletop Roleplaying Games" Bradley University Critical Game Studies Course. October 28, 2021.

  • “Unpublished, Uncensored: Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Manuscripts.”  Symposium on Hester Thrale. UCLA/Clark Library. September 24-5, 2021.

  • (with Emily M.N. Kugler) "Before Bridgerton: Austen-Inspired Games and the Challenges of Representation" Jane Austen Days, Jane Austen Society of North America- Eastern PA Region. March 13, 2021.

  • "Controlling Vocabulary: The Language and the Silences of Archival Practice" Kean University, April 4, 2019.

  • “How to Study Anonymous: Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Austen” English-Speaking Union of Atlanta. September 27, 2018.

  • Women in Book History 1660-1832 Research Group Symposium (Folger Shakespeare Library, March 2019)

  • "Eluding Print: Manuscript Fiction and the Survival of Scribal Practices in the Age of Print" Women in Book History 1660-1832 Research Group Symposium (Vancouver, August 2018)

  • “The Death and Afterlife of Austen and Staël: Sanditon and Corinne from those who loved them" Jane Austen Society of Atlanta, December 2017.

  • "Novelties: New Directions in Long 18th Century Fiction Studies and DH" Plenary Roundtable with Marta Kvande and Laura Mandell, November 16, 2017.

  • “Manuscripts and Metadata: Recovery through Reorganization.” Keynote, University of Tulsa Graduate Conference, October 2017.​

  • "Manuscript Fiction in the Archive: Database and Introduction to Examples in the Mendenhall Collection." Presentation to Early Novels Database Group, University of Pennsylvania, July 2, 2016.​

  • “What We Talk About When We Talk About Smell.” University of Missouri Department of English Colloquium Speaker, Columbia, MO. October 24, 2014.

  • “Considering Johnson’s ‘Nose of the Mind’.” Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. April 4, 2014.

  • "Penning Perfume." George Washington University. February 21, 2014.

  • "Reading Smell in the Eighteenth Century"  University of West Georgia, GA.  October 24, 2013.

  • "On Beyond Endings: Sarah Fielding's Reader Education."  As Chawton Visiting Research Fellow. Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire, UK, 11 February 2009.​

 

National/International​

  • Organizer, BigBadAcademy Symposium, BigBadCon 2024.

  • Panelist, "Researching, Preserving, and Sharing TTRPG Communal Knowledge" BigBadCon 2024.

  • Panelist, "Criticism, Critique, and Actual Play" BigBadCon 2024.

  • (with Emily M.N. Kugler) "Playing the Romantic: Integrating Games into the Classroom" North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) August 2024.

  • Symposium Organizer (with Evan Toner and Adrian Hermann) Analog Games as Medium & Media, University of Bonn, May 2024.

  • Panelist, “(Non) Academic Study of TTRPGs” BigBadCon 2023.

  • Roundtable Participant, “ISECS as a Platform for DH Convergence” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, July 2023.

  • Symposium Organizer (with Evan Toner and Adrian Hermann) Analog Games as Medium & Media, University of Bonn, June 21-27, 2023.

  • Organizer and Workshop Facilitator, "Sir Charles Grandison: The Poly Digital Edition" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, April 2022.

  • Panelist, "Jane Austen and Radical Inclusion" (Just-in-Time Session) Modern Language Association. January 9, 2022.

  • (with Emily M.N. Kugler) “Possible Past Times: Games as Antiracist Pedagogy” Antiracist Pedagogy and the Long Eighteenth Century (Roundtable). Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference November 2021.

  • (with Emily M.N. Kugler) 'What shall we play at?': The Artful World of Regency Inspired Games on our Tables and Screens" Jane Austen Society of North America Annual General Meeting, Chicago 2021. [panel withdrawn]

  • Panelist, "Austen After 200" Salon Session, British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS). August 18, 2021.

  • Panelist, "Defining Publication: Literary and Legal Landscapes; Or, What We Talk about When We Define Publication"  (Roundtable) SHARP 2021 (July 2021).

  • Chair, "Ecco is dead! Long live ECCO!" British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. January 2021.

  • Panelist, "Zooming through the Eighteenth Century" Pedagogy Caucus for American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Virtual Session. April 17, 2020.

  • Panelist [on future of Digital Humanities and 18th Century Studies], "Presidential Session: Innovating the Next Fifty Years of ASECS" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.  St Louis, MO, March 2020. [postponed to ASECS 2021 for COVID-19]

  • Roundtable Participant [On 18thConnect and Peer Review], “Reviewing #C18dh Scholarship” [Digital Humanities Caucus] American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.  St Louis, MO, March 2020. [cancelled]

  • "Quick Start to creating metadata for 18thConnect.org" (Workshop) International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh July 2019. 

  • "The Accidentally Anonymous" in “Absence in the Archives: New Methods for Representing Exclusion” [Bibliographical Society of America] American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.  Denver, CO, March 2019.

  • Participant, "Plugging into Eighteenth-Century Studies: From C18-L, ECCO, and MOOCs to Instagram, Vimeo, and Scalar” (Roundtable) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.  Denver, CO, March 2019.

  • “Never-Published Fiction and Retelling the History of Genre"  “New Theories and Histories of Eighteenth-Century Genre” (Roundtable) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference.  Orlando, FL, March 2018.

  • “Manuscripts and Metadata: Taxonomizing Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Print.” Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference. Philadelphia, PA. October 2017.

  • “Jane Austen, Fangirl: Austen among the Amateur Authors.” Jane Austen Society of North America Annual General Meeting, Huntington Beach, CA.  October 2017.

  • “Was it published? Is it fiction? The case of Piozzi’s Una and Duessa.” British Association for Romantic Studies Conference. York, UK. July 2017.

  • “Gifts of Love: an 1824 manuscript translation of Corinne.” Chawton De Stael/Austen Conference. July 2017.

  • “Archiving Anonymous.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies.  Minneapolis, MN. March 2017.​

  • “Manuscript Fiction and Case Law: Coterie Circulation in the Age of Print.” States of the Book Conference at the United States Military Academy, West Point. September 2016.

  • Chair/Organizer, “Rethinking the Academic Conference.” (Workshop) American Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2016.

  • "Performing Frankenstein in the South: Sex, Race, and Science Across the Disciplines" “Adapting the Eighteenth Century: Pedagogies and Practices” American Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2016.

  • “Reading between distant and close, or, how to work with grubby data" American Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2016.

  • “Smelling Women.” Aphra Behn Society Conference, Seton Hall, NJ. November 2015.

  • Roundtable Participant, “Books and the Larger World of Objects in the Long Eighteenth Century.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies. Los Angeles, CA. March 2015.

  • Roundtable Participant, “Women’s Caucus at Forty.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies. Los Angeles, CA. March 2015.

  • "'Bad smells’ and ‘fragrance’: Reading Mansfield Park Through the Eighteenth-Century Nose.” Jane Austen Society of North America. Montreal.  October 9-12, 2014.

  • "Considering Johnson's 'Nose of the Mind'" Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region.  Columbus, OH. April 4-5, 2014.

  • "One Scent Three Ways: Sulfur in the Eighteenth Century."  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, VA, March 2014.

  • Roundtable Participant, "Wormius in the Land of Tweets: Archival Studies, Textual Editing, and the Wiki-Trained Undergraduate."  (Society for History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing panel). American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, VA, March 2014.

  • Roundtable Participant, "Teaching the Eighteenth-Century History of the Book."  East-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, PA. November 2013.

  • “Running to the Smelling-Bottle: Scented Objects in Women's Fiction”  Chawton House Conference on Women’s Writing.  Chawton House Library, UK, July 4-6, 2013

  • "Recovering Landmarks of Scent in the Eighteenth-Century Novel" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland, OH 2013.

  • Roundtable Participant, “Teaching Jane Austen in Emerging Contexts”  Modern Language Association.  Boston, 2013.

  • Chair, “Teaching Jane Austen in Challenging Circumstances” Modern Language Association.  Boston, 2013.

  • “’The Art of Making Art’: The Power of Money in Adaptations of Jane Austen On (and Off-Off-Off) Broadway” (with Chase Bringardner, Department of Theatre).  Jane Austen Society of North America Annual General Meeting.  Brooklyn, NY, October 6-7, 2012.

  • Chair/Organizer, “Reading Richardson in Mid-Century” (Richardson Society Roundtable) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, TX 2012.

  • Roundtable Participant, "Across Media, Across Genres: Methodologies for Comparing the Novel and the Theater” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.

  • Roundtable Participant, "From Dissertation to Publication” (Women’s Caucus Roundtable) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.

  • Chair/Organizer, “Richardson's Corpus: New Research” and “Richardson's Corpus: New Research Working Group” (for Samuel Richardson Society) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.

  • Chair/Organizer, "Recovering the Performed Eighteenth Century." (Roundtable) East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 4-6, 2010.

  • "Text, Playtext, Promptbook: The Intersecting Lives of Scott's Guy Mannering" East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS), Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-6, 2010.

  • Sanditon's Journey: The Fate of Austen's Final Fragment in Context" British Women Writers Conference. College Station, TX April 8-11, 2010.

  • "When a good end is hard to find: backmatter, indices, and novel endings" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Albuquerque, NM. March 18-21, 2010.

  • Chair/Organizer, “Age of Burney: A Roundtable” (for Frances Burney Society) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM, 27-9 March 2010.

  • "Sacred Taboos: Mary Brunton's Posthumous Packaging" East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS), Lehigh University, October 8-11, 2009.

  • "Cataloguing "The End" -- Reconsidering Closure and the Rise of the Novel" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, March 27-9, 2009

  • Roundtable Participant (with Janine Barchas, Deidre Lynch, and Peter Sabor), “Historicizing Jane Austen” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, March 27-9 2009

  • Chair, "Beginnings and Endings: Locating Boundaries, Crises, and Turning Points in the (Very Long) Eighteenth-Century" (as Graduate Caucus Co-Chair) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA. March 2009.

  • "Jane Austen: End or Beginning?" Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Chicago, IL, October 4, 2008

  • Chair, "Richardson in the Twenty-first Century: A Roundtable" and "Beyond Clarissa: Sir Charles Grandison in Conversation" (for Samuel Richardson Society) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR March 28-9, 2008.

  • “Identification Reconsidered: Beyond Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Novels” South-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SE-ASECS), Auburn, AL, February 15, 2008

  • "Napoleon on the Margins: Creating an End To the Revolution” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MW-ASECS), Kansas City, MO, October 12, 2007

  • "Life's Endings: Seeking Closure in Burney's Court Diaries" Young Researchers Panel, UK Burney Society, Windsor, UK, July 7, 2007

  • "Wanderer’s End: Understanding Burney’s Approach to Endings" Frances Burney Society, Tucson, AZ, October 26, 2006

  • "Beyond Sentimental: Conflicted Sympathies In Late Georgian Comic Opera" Aphra Behn Society Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, October 30, 2005

  • "Schools Beyond (and Before) Scandal: Situating The School for Scandal” English Graduate Conference. University of York, York, UK, June 18, 2005

  • "Text, Playtext, Promptbook: The Covent Garden Promptbook edits of Guy Mannering, 1815-1834"  Eighteenth-Century Post-Graduate Seminar. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK,  May 28, 2005

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At Auburn University​

  • "Manuscript Fiction: An Introduction." Pebble Hill, 2016.

  • Invited Speaker, “The Deserted Village.” Discovering Auburn Lecture. April 9, 2014.

  • “Teaching Jane Austen In The Literary Marketplace.” Conversations in Celebration of Teaching. September 20, 2013.

  • “Reading Smell in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Auburn Research Week Faculty Forum. April 3, 2012.

  • Invited Speaker, “Reading Smell in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Auburn English Graduate Association Colloquium. March 31, 2012.

  • Invited Speaker, Auburn Preparing Future Faculty. December 1, 2011.

  • Invited Speaker, Auburn English Graduate Association (EGA).  October 12, 2011.

  • Invited Speaker, "Conferencing and Publishing Early in Your Graduate Career.” Auburn Department of English MA Practicum. February 24, 2010.

  • Invited Speaker, “Eighteenth-Century Women.” Auburn Honors College Congress, February 15, 2010.

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

Research Fellowships

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Competitive Seminars​

 

Internal Competitive Grants

  • College of Liberal Arts Senior Faculty Semester Release from Teaching (Spring 2025)

  • Department of English Goods & Services Award ($5100) for Actual Play field research (2024)

  • CLA Harry M. Philpott Endowment for the Humanities Grant ($2500) for TTRPG Course (2023)

  • College of Liberal Arts Grant Writing Grant (2023)
    [asked to decline by Department of English]

  • CLA Summer Research Grant (2021)

  • Competitive Summer Research Grant ($10,000)

  • CLA Harry M. Philpott Endowment for the Humanities Grant ($2500) for Book Lab Cart expansion

  • Biggio Center Breeden Endowment Grant for Book Lab Cart ($4000, later supplemented with $3000 from Dean of Libraries and $1000 private donation) (2019)

  • SEC Faculty Travel Grant (collaboration with Laura Mandell and Margaret Ezell of Texas A&M) ($2400)

  • Provost Professional Improvement Leave, Fall 2017​

  • 2017 Course (Re)Design Grant, for incorporating digital methods modules into Core and Major courses ($5000) ​

  • "Manuscript Fiction 1760-1860" Intramural Seed Grant ($9000) 2016-2018.

  • Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities Summer Fellowship ($2500) 2016.

  • "The History of the Book in Theory and Practice" (with Derek Ross and Greg Schmidt)

  • Level 1 Intramural Grant ($8000) 2014.

 

Teaching Awards

STUDENTS

UNDERGRADUATE

Carson Barnes (2023-4)

Olivia Price (2022-3)

Noah Moon (2020-23)

Mary Grace Vinson (2018-2020, Fellow 2019-20)

Mary Butgereit (Fellow, 2017-18)

(now technical writer)

Carrie Hill (Fellow, 2017)

(now in MLIS Program, UNC)

Kelsie Shipley (Fellow, 2016-17)

(now PhD student, U of Delaware)

Tristan Brown (2016-17)
(now MA, Political Science, U Alabama)

Hannah Skjellum (2016-17)

(now PhD student, U of North Carolina)

Matthew Stinson (2016-17)
(MA in Horticulture, Auburn 2020)

Savannah Downey (2016)

Steven Winters (2015)

(now Resident Physician, Internal Medicine, Moses Cone Hospital)

COMMITTEE SERVICE

Adrianna Burton (PhD, UC Irvine)

Emily Spaunaugle (PhD, Wayne State U)

Kathryn Smith (PhD)

Louise Schulmann Darsy (MA ’24)

Lev Barrett (MA Creative Writing ’23)

Olivia Zeagler (MA English Ed, ’23)

Soroush Abedini (MA Creative Writing ’23)

Krista Grant (MTPC ‘22)

Katie Ballinger (MA, Creative Writing ‘22)

Hannah Stefancik (MTPC ‘22)

Tubah Mohiadat, MA (English 2021)

Dan Cone, PhD (History 2020)

Kimberly Jones, PhD (English Education 2017)

Cari Casteel, PhD (History 2017)

(Now Clinical Assistant Professor of History, University of Buffalo)

Emily Kerzin, PhD (Clinical Psychology 2016)
(now Licensed Psychologist)

Todd Aldridge, PhD (English 2016) 

Cynthia Sampson, MA (English 2014)

(now PhD Louisiana State University)
Stacey Dearing, MA (English 2012)

(PhD Purdue University, now Teaching Assistant Professor of English at Siena College in Loudonville, New York)
Ashley Sandlin, MA (English 2012)
(now PhD candidate at U Minnesota)
Kirsten Iden, MA (English 2010)
(PhD 2016, Auburn University)

GRADUATES SUPERVISED

Sylvan Baker, PhD (in progress)

Phineas Dowling, PhD (2020)
Brit Henry, MA (2020)
Amy Childress, MA (2017)
Meredith Baumann, MA (2016)
Roberta Hirschbuehler, MA (2012)

GRADUATE STUDENT COLLABORATORS

Project Managers, 18thConnect.org

Elizabeth Brissey (PhD Student) (2019-present)

Hannah Stefanchik (2021)

Darbyshire Witek (MA 2019) (2018-19)
(now PhD Student and African American Public Humanities Fellow at University of Delaware) 

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Manuscript Fiction Project

Amanda Reeves (2020)

 

Poly Grandison

Soroush Abedini (2022)

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Book Lab Cart

Jack Hambly (2022)

Harrison Patten (2021)

Britt Henry (2019-2020)

(now PhD Student, University of Delaware)

SERVICE

DEPARTMENTAL

Member, Core Composition Assessment Institute (2023)

Recognition & Development (2019-22, Chair 2020-22)

Vision & Planning (2019-21)

English Club Advisor (2014-2019)

Early Modern Search Committee (2018)

English Department Graduate Studies Committee (2015-6)

Judge, Graduate Student Paper Award 2012 (MA level)
English Department Job Market Advising Committee (2011-3)
English Department Undergraduate Studies Committee (2012-5)
Assistant, London Graduate Research Trip (Summer 2011)
Organizer, Jessica Garratt lecture/visit (Fall 2010, 5 class visits in English and Art)
Member, Junior Special Committee on Peer Governance Structures (2010)
Research Culture Committee (2010-2011)

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY

Auburn University
Honors College Advisory Council (2018-present)

Digital Projects Working Group (2010-present)

Common Book Committee (2015-2018)

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College of Liberal Arts
College Budget Committee (2016-2020)

College Scholarship and Awards Committee (2015-present)

Judge, Graduate Research Forum (2010)
Participant Advisor, Undergraduate Research Forum (2012-present)

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Department of Theatre

Dramaturg, Frankenstein (Fall 2016)

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Selected Panels:

"Professors Are People Too" (2020)

"Ace That Class!" (Orientation Week 2019, 2020)
Conversations in Celebration of Teaching (2013)

TO THE PROFESSION

Organizer, BigBadAcademy Symposium (2024)

External Reviewer, tenure and promotion cases for candidates with digital humanities and/or game studies components to their research programs (2021-)

Member at Large, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2022-25)

Judge, ASECS Innovative Course Design Award (2021-22)

Evaluator (commissioned), Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume C. (2020)

Conference President, Aphra Behn Society (2019 Meeting)

Reviewer, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Novel, Review of English Studies, Scriblerian, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Review of English Studies

Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

Conference Organizer, Frances Burney Society (2014 Meeting, reviewed here)

Judge, Hemlow Prize (Burney Society)

President, Samuel Richardson Society (Founder 2007-present, elected President 2011)

Co-Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Digital Humanities Caucus (2017-2020)

Co-Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Caucus (2008-09)

Reviewer, Eighteenth-Century Novel, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, New Rambler, The Review of English Studies, Scriblerian

Panelist, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities

EDITORIAL SERVICE

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EDITORIAL/ADVISORY BOARDS

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Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures (2022-)
Papers of Bibliographic Society of America (2022-)

Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (2021-)

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ADVISORY
 

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