Ph.D. in English. Stony Brook University, 2012

Dissertation: "From Mourning to Meditation: Theorizing Ecopoetics, Thinking Ecology"

Committee: Rowan Ricardo Phillips (director), Peter Manning, Susan Scheckel, and Lynn Keller

Competency fields: 19th and 20th Century American Literature. Ecopoetics & Ecocriticism.

B.A. in English & History. Summa cum laude. State University of New York at Geneseo, 2004

Honors Thesis: Modern American Bohemianism

Academic Awards & Honors

Morton E. Kahn and David Erdman Award for Best Dissertation [Dept. of English] (Stony Brook 2012)

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student [university-wide] (Stony Brook 2012)
Alan Babich Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching [Dept. of English] (Stony Brook 2011)
Mellon Interdisciplinary Dissertation Fellowship (Stony Brook 2010)
Thomas Flanagan Paper Prize for Best Paper by a Doctoral Student [Dept. of English] (Stony Brook 2008)
Presidential Fellowship (Stony Brook 2007-2009)
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa (Geneseo 2004)
Beauchamp Award in English for Outstanding Graduating Senior in English (Geneseo 2004)
Byrnes Scholarship for Outstanding Graduating Senior in History (Geneseo 2004)

Writing Honors