Academic Employment

Assistant Professor of Digital Art, Ecology, and Communication, Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, current position

Research Appointment, Department of English, University of Oregon, 2022-2023

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Oregon, Spring 2022

Dissertation: “Re-mediating Ireland: The Nature of Modernization in 20th Century Irish Culture”

Chairs: Mark Quigley and Sarah Wald

M.Ed., College of Education, University of Oregon, Spring 2022

M.A., Literary Studies, Leiden University, 2008

B.A., Literary Studies (Algemene Literatuurwetenschap), Leiden University, 2007

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Aural Interruptions: The Politics of Sound in Teresa Deevy’s Radio Plays”. Review of Irish Studies in Europe, Vol. 7, no. 1 (2024): pp. 7-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32803/rise.v7i1.3240.

“‘The bog is a technology of its own’: Rupturing the Logic of Natural Resource Development in Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s The Pipe,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Vol. 31, No. 1 (2024): pp. 176-199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isac048.

“Decolonizing Irishness: Assertions of Afro-Irish Self-Determination in Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley’s Seaview and Melatu Uche Okorie’s This Hostel Life,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 25, no. 6 (2023): pp. 775-804. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157311.

“Teaching the Ocean: Literature and History in the Study of the Sea,” co-authored with Hayley Brazier, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Vol. 30, no. 2 (2023): pp. 262-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa131.

“‘The Eden of the future…looking like the banished past’: Reading Riparian Agency in Deep Time in Ciaran Carson’s Belfast Confetti,” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Vol. 25, no. 1 (2021): pp. 17-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2021.1893206.

“The View from Mrs. Kelly’s Window: Reframing Agency and Land in the Congested Districts Board Photographs,” Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies special issue on Ireland and the Environment, Vol. 55, no. 3&4 (Fall/Winter 2020): pp. 95-128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2020.0018.

Honors and Awards

Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant, 2023-2024

College of Education, Rose Davis Scholarship and College of Education Alumni Scholarship, 2021-2021

Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) Research Grant, 2020-2021

Commendation of Equity and Inclusion in the Teaching of Argumentative Writing, 2018-2019

International Association of the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Postgraduate Scholarship, 2019

Notre Dame IRISH Seminar 2018 Tuition Fellowship, 2018

General University of Oregon Scholarship, 2016-2017

Steingart Fellowship, 2014-2015

Jane Campbell Krohn Graduate Fellowship in Literature and the Environment, 2014-2015

Conferences and Presentations

“Media, Myth, and Music: Reclaiming the Land and Languages of Afro-Ireland in Denise Chaila’s Anseo,” ASLE Biennial Conference, July 2023

“Aural Interruptions: The Politics of Sound in Teresa Deevy’s Radio Plays,” ACIS 2023 Annual Conference, June 2023

“Representing Afro-Irish Self-Determination: Filmic and Literary Strategies in Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley’s Seaview and Melatu Uche Okorie’s This Hostel Life,” IASIL 2022 Annual Conference, July 2022

“Rewriting Ireland: Intersections of Race and Citizenship in Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley’s Seaview and Melatu Uche Okorie’s This Hostel Life,” ACIS 2021 Annual Conference, June 2021

“Ephemeral Environments: How the History of Radio and Seán Ó Riada’s Our Musical Heritage Construct the Irish West,” IASIL 2019 Annual Conference: Ithir Na critice/The Critical Ground, July 2019

“Imperialism of the Mind: The Structural Violence and Satire of Colonial Science and Technology in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Bray House,” ASLE 2019 Biennial Conference, June 2019

“Energy Ecologies: Climate Change and Colonial Legacies in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Bray House,” ACIS 2019 Annual Conference, March 2019

“Modernizing Tradition: Ethnography and Photography as Framing Revival and Unionist Ideologies in the Congested Districts Board Archive,” ACIS 2018 Annual Conference, June 2018

“Material Time: Entangled Discursive and Material Histories in Ciaran Carson’s Belfast Confetti.” Presenter, ASLE Biennial Conference, June 2017

Teaching and Research Interests

Twentieth-century Irish and British literature; twentieth-century African and Caribbean anglophone literature; studies of literature and the environment; postcolonial theory; inclusive pedagogies

Professional Training

Politics, Culture, and Identity Specialization, University of Oregon, anticipated Winter 2022 – a graduate certificate program in which PhD students engage in interdisciplinary research through seminars, guest-speaker series, and dissertation workshops

Advanced Graduate Teaching Initiative, University of Oregon, anticipated Winter 2022 – a series of workshops to align teaching practices with the scholarship on teaching and learning

Teaching

University of Oregon – Instructor of Record

Introduction to Environmental Literature, Winter Quarter 2019

Introduction to Environmental Literature (Online), Spring Quarter 2020

College Writing I, WR 121, Fall Quarter 2015

College Writing I, WR 121, Winter Quarter 2016

College Writing II, WR 122, Spring Quarter 2016

College Writing II, WR 122, Fall Quarter 2016

College Writing II, WR 122, Spring Quarter 2017

University of Oregon – Teaching Assistant

Science, Technology, and Gender: Reproductive Practices & Technologies, WGSS 331, Spring 2022

Women, Work, and Class, WGSS 341, Winter 2022

Bodies and Power, WGSS 221, Fall 2021

Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms, WGSS 251, Spring 2021

Transborder Children’s Literature, WGSS 250, Winter 2021

Bodies and Power, WGSS 221, Fall 2020

Foundations to the English Major, ENG 303 (Close Reading), Spring 2018

Foundations to the English Major, ENG 302 (Literary Theory), Winter 2017

Sea Education Association – Instructor of Record

SEAScape Oceans and Society, Session 1, 2017

SEAScape Oceans and Society, Session 2, 2018

SEAScape Oceans and Society, Session 1, 2019

Service

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

Independent/Contingent Advocacy Officer, January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 (elected)

University of Oregon

Assistant Director of Composition, Summer 2017 to Spring 2019 (appointed)

Mesa Verde ecocritical reading group, Coordinator, 2016 to present (volunteer)

English Department Council, Graduate Student Representative, 2016 to 2017 (elected)

Search committee, T/t Assistant Professor of African Literatures and Media, Graduate Student Representative, Winter 2016 (appointed)

Universiteit Leiden

Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment, Webmaster, 2012-2014 (volunteer)

Professional Affiliations

International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)

American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE and ASLE-UKI)

Modern Studies Association (MSA)

European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE)

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)

Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) 

Languages

English (native), Dutch (fluent), French (intermediate), Irish (beginner)

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