Academic Work
Publications and Presentations
"Affirming Life (and Limb) in an Unlikely Place: Poe's Disturbing Medical Satire." MLA Annual Convention, January 2026.
“‘Staying with the Trouble’ and the Subversive Hope of Contemporary Women Poets.” MMLA Annual Convention, November 2025.
“Peace is Participatory: Responsiveness in Undergraduate English.” MMLA Annual Convention, November 2025.
"Review of 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction by Emily Horton." JMMLA, Fall 2025.
"Fostering Connection Through Silent Discussion: What Does It Mean for Texts to be ‘in Conversation?’” Digital Discourse Inquiry Group, National Writing Project, 2024.
“Incorporating Imaginative Response into Literature Study to Support Consideration of Voice, Audience, and Purpose.” Notre Dame of Maryland University MAT Program, 2022.
Larson, K., Savick, S., Segree, T., Buchanan, M., and Chaturvedi, A. Integrating Flourishing within PDS Partnerships to Support Students’ Mental Health and Wellbeing. School-University Partnerships, May 2022.
“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.” Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference, 2018.
“With Purpose.” McDaniel College, 2017.
“Westminster Detective Library.” National Council for Undergraduate Research, 2017.
“Stephen Dedalus’ Hunt for Individuation in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” Baltimore Jungian Working Group and McDaniel College Phi Beta Kappa Symposium, 2017.
"Rue Morgue Gone Rogue: Poe, an Information Revolution, and the Real Life American Sensation Tale." Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference, 2017.
Classes Taught
ENG 212: Writing in Culture (First-Year Composition)
ENG 226: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 315: Creative Writing - Poetry
ENG 317: Creative Nonfiction
ENG 320: Advanced Writing Workshop (Fiction Focus and Literary Fiction Focus)
ENG 334: American Renaissance Literature
ENG 380: Internship Experience
ENGL 109: Composition
ENGL 110: Advanced Composition
COMM 120: Presentation Techniques
Observations for secondary English education majors
Additional years of teaching at the middle and high school levels