My first degree, in Classics, was from Penn State University. I received my PhD, in Comparative Literature, from Stanford University in 2012 and joined the Spatial Humanities Project in 2013. My research primarily focuses on the literature and culture of the British and European eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with an emphasis on phenomena such as literary tourism and the creation of literary heritage sties. My broader interests include reception theory, the history of the book, and the cultural intersections of poetry and place. I have been a reviewer for the Year’s Work in English Studies, contributing the review of books and articles published on Romantic Poetry, since 2012.

Recent Conference Papers and Presentations

'Tasteless Swains and Trivial Strains: Poetic Miscellanies in Eighteenth-Century Oxford', A Miscellany of Miscellanies: Popular Poetic Collections and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, Launch Conference of the Digital Miscellanies Index, St Peter's College, Oxford, 17 September 2013.

'Form and Self-Transformation in de Campos’s Barrow-on-Furness', Everdayness and the Event: MSA 15, University of Sussex, Brighton, 29 August-1 September 2013.

'Pennant and the "Discovery" of the Lake District: A Literary GIS', Thomas Pennant’s Tours: Second Multidisciplinary Workshop, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 7-8 June 2013.

'Down the Duddon: Wordsworth and His Literary Pilgrims', Northeast Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 7 December 2012.

'Mapping "Wordsworthshire": Martineau and the Literary Geography of the Lakes', Modern Language Association 2012 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 5-8 January 2012.

'Independence, Nativity, and Seclusion: A Reading of Wordsworth's "To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth"', North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 2011 Annual Meeting, Park City, UT, 11-14 August 2011.

'Locality, Loco-description, and the Eighteenth-Century Sonnet', American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2011 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.

Other Academic Activites

Co-Organizer (with Dr Jo Carruthers), Landscape & Writing Workshop Series, Deparment of History and Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University

Volunteer, Victoria County History, 2012-14, Centre for North-West Regional Studies and Department of History, Lancaster University

Participant, 'Placing Morecambe' Workshop Series, Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University