Academic Work

Publications and Presentations

Additional paper and chapter abstracts accepted for 2025 submission - more to come!

Upcoming presentation: "Affirming Life (and Limb) in an Unlikely Place: Poe's Disturbing Medical Satire." (MLA 2026, Toronto)

Upcoming presentation: “‘Staying with the Trouble’ and the Subversive Hope of Contemporary Women Poets.” (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee)

Upcoming presentation: “Peace is Participatory: Responsiveness in Undergraduate English.” (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee)

Upcoming article: "Review of 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction by Emily Horton." (Fall 2025, JMMLA)

Presentation: “Fostering Connection Through Silent Discussion: What Does It Mean for Texts to be ‘in Conversation?’” Digital Discourse Inquiry Group, National Writing Project, 2024.

Presentation: “Incorporating Imaginative Response into Literature Study to Support Consideration of Voice, Audience, and Purpose.” Notre Dame of Maryland University MAT Program, 2022.

Paper: 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.

Presentation: “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.” Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference, 2018.

Presentation: “With Purpose.” McDaniel College, 2017.

Presentation: “Westminster Detective Library.” National Council for Undergraduate Research, 2017.

Presentation: “Stephen Dedalus’ Hunt for Individuation in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” Baltimore Jungian Working Group and McDaniel College Phi Beta Kappa Symposium, 2017.

Presentation: "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), Cornerstone University

ENG 226: Introduction to Creative Writing, Cornerstone University

ENG 315: Creative Writing Poetry, Cornerstone University

ENG 317: Creative Nonfiction, Cornerstone University

ENG 320: Advanced Writing Workshop (Fiction Focus), Cornerstone University

ENG 334: American Renaissance Literature, Cornerstone University

ENGL 109: Composition, Davenport University

COMM 120: Presentation Techniques, Davenport University

(Additional years of teaching at the middle and high school levels)