Education
Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2024
Dissertation: “Multidimensional Kinships: Black and Indigenous Environmental Thought”
Graduate Certificate, Multicultural and Transnational Literatures, East Carolina University, 2015
M.A., English, concentration in Creative Writing (Poetry), East Carolina University, 2012
B.A., English, Ohio University, 2009
Specializations: Native American/Indigenous literature, African American literature, Appalachian studies, Environmental Justice and Nature Writing, Ecocriticism
Awards and Recognition
Poem “Blue Ghosts,” nominated by Moss Puppy Magazine for a Best of the Net Award, 09/2024
Recipient, High Country Humanities Travel Fund Award, 02/2024
Recipient, Keith Cushman Graduate Prize for Scholarly Publications for "The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women's Poetry," 12/2023
Finalist, WCU College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, 02/2023
Attendee, Summer PhD Residency Program, National Humanities Center, 07/2020
“Faculty Favorite” WCU student-athlete (football) nominated award, 11/2019
Poem “The Mighty Ohio” was a finalist in the 2019 Still: The Journal poetry contest, 10/2019
“Faculty Favorite” WCU student-athlete (volleyball) nominated award, 09/2018
Recipient, UNCG Fowler-Feather Scholarship for Graduate Summer Study, 07/2019
Poem “In A Sleepy Little County” was a finalist in the Still: The Journal poetry contest, 09/2017
Scholarly Publications and Research
Edited Volumes
Co-edited with Laura Wright. Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place, University of Georgia Press, 2023.
[305-page volume; 16 essays; co-authored introduction; authored chapter on Robert Gipe (listed below)]
Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (editor). West Virginia University Press, 2019.
[360-page collection; authored 14-page introduction and creative nonfiction piece (listed below)]
Special Issues
Co-edited with Z. Zane McNeill. Special Issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies: Speculative Fabulation: Queering Appalachian Futurisms, June 2022.
[co-authored introduction; authored two book reviews and one “community note” (listed below)]
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Another Anthropocene: Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Coastal Indigenous Poetry,” special issue of American Literatures on Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere. Ed. Brian Railsback, forthcoming.
“Gothic Realism in Charles Dodd White’s Short Fiction,” Iron Mountain Review, forthcoming.
“Water As Memory, Water as Kin: A Hydrological Analysis of Hogan’s Solar Storms and Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2024.
“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry,” special issue of North Carolina Literary Review on Native American Literature of North Carolina. Ed. Kirsten Squint, vol. 32, 2023, 88-105.
“Blue Balls: Masculinity and Hypothermia in the Short Stories of Ron Rash,” special issue of The Journal of Short Story in English on the work of Ron Rash. Eds. Frédérique Spill and Randall Wilhelm, vol. 74, 2021, 123-136.
“‘Wildness Was Nothing to Admire’: African American Environmental Thought and the Importance of Place in Stephanie Powell Watts's No One Is Coming to Save Us,” North Carolina Literary Review, vol. 28, 2019, 19-31.
Book Chapters
“Unsilencing Indigeneity: Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Ecologies, and the Continuation of Settler Colonialism,” Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future, Eds. Zane McNeill and Rebecca Scott. University Press of Kentucky, 2024, 79-104.
“Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves,” Cli-fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction. Eds. Debra Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky. University of Virginia Press, 2023, 63-78.
“An Ecofeminist Reading of Trampoline as Insight into Appalachian Oppression,” Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place. Eds. Laura Wright and Jessica Cory, University of Georgia Press, 2023, 129-144.
“A Tale of Two Pities: Life in a Dual NTTF Household” (co-authored with John McHone), Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non Tenure Track Faculty in Writing Studies. Eds. Rachel Sanchez, Meg McGuire, and Jessica Edwards, Utah State University Press, 2021, 119-130.
Non-Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journal Contributions
“Taking PRIDE in One’s Community: How Local Rural Pride Events Nurture Queer Futurity, An Interview with Travis A. Rountree,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, June 2022, 88-96. Community note.
Book Reviews
Rev. of Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival: Affects, Matterings, and Literacies Across Appalachia by Caleb Pendygraft, Journal of Appalachian Studies, forthcoming
Rev. of Kings of Coweetsee and The Woman with the Stone Knife, both by Dale Neal, North Carolina Literary Review, forthcoming
Rev. of In Plena Vita—The Full Life: Collected poems of Timothy Russell edited by Marc Harshman and Larry Smith, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, forthcoming
Rev. of The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go by William Woolfitt, Change Seven, July 2024
Rev. of Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, July 2024
Rev. of In Plena Vita—The Full Life: Collected poems of Timothy Russell edited by Marc Harshman and Larry Smith, Appalachian Journal, April 2024
Rev. of Primer by Dan Beachy-Smith and Kylan Rice, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, October 2023
Rev. of Down Here We Come Up by Sara Johnson Allen, Tupelo Quarterly, September 2023
Rev. of Night Wing over Metropolitan Area by John Hoppenthaler, Kestrel, August 2023
Rev. of The Best of the Adirondack Tales by W. H. H. Murray, H-Net, August 2023
Rev. of Appalachian Pastoral: Mountain Excursions, Aesthetic Visions, and the Antebellum Travel Narrative by Michael S. Martin, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, June 2023
Rev. of As Is by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Still: The Journal, June 2023
Rev. of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Laura Anna Reeve, Change Seven, April 2023
Rev. of Hillbilly Madonna by Sara Moore Wagner, Still: The Journal, October 2022
Rev. of Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia by Z. Zane McNeill, Journal of Appalachian Studies, June 2022
Rev. of The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels, Journal of Appalachian Studies, June 2022
Rev. of Magnolia Canopy Otherworld by Erin Carlyle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Summer 2021
Rev. of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz, Carolina Quarterly, June 2021
Rev. of A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t be Seen by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Still: The Journal, February 2021
Rev. of Anthropocene Blues by John Lane, The Goose, June 2019
Rev. of Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, Appalachian Heritage (now Appalachian Review), Winter 2019
Rev. of WWJD and Other Poems by Savannah Sipple, Appalachian Heritage (now Appalachian Review), Spring 2019
Rev. of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash, Appalachian Heritage (now Appalachian Review), Winter 2018
Digital Humanities
ed., “A Small River or Creek” by Quale-U-Quah, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/a-small-river-or-creek/
ed., “At Home with Nature” by Charles A. Eastman, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/at-home-with-nature/
ed., “Battle of the Owls” by Joseph M. Poepoe, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/battle-of-the-owls/
ed., “First Efforts at Rhyming” by “Two Little Indian Girls,” in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/first-efforts-at-rhyming/
ed., “How Morning Star Lost Her Fish” by Mabel Powers, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/how-morning-star-lost-her-fish/
ed., “Our Young Folks” by The Indian, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/our-young-folks/
ed., “Playing and Haying” by Eugene Dutton, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/playing-and-haying/
ed., “Stars” by Ga-Yu-Ga, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/stars/
ed., “The Eating of the Poi,” traditional Hawaiian song, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/the-eating-of-the-poi/
ed., “The Indian Girl” by Zitkála-Šá, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/the-indian-girl/
ed., “The Raven and The Fish Hawk” by Chief William Shelton, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/the-raven-and-the-fish-hawk/
ed., “Tradition of the Crows” by Louis George, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/tradition-of-the-crows/
ed., “Ye Old Council House” by Eagle Eye Thompson, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/ye-old-council-house/
ed., “Zunian Lullaby” transcribed and harmonized by Carlos Troyer, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/zunian-lullaby/
“Cherokee Female Seminary,” “Dutton, Eugene,” “Eastman, Charles Alexander,” “George, Louis,” “Poepoe, Joseph Mokuohai,” “Powers, Mabel,” Shelton, Chief William,” “Troyer, Carlos,” “Zitkála-Šá,” Author Biographies in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/author-biographies/
Creative Publications
Poetry
“Ode to the Pill Bug,” Poetry in Plain Sight, North Carolina Poetry Society, forthcoming May 2025
“Power Dynamic, May 2023,” Women Speak vol. 10, edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour, forthcoming
“Autumn on the Tuckasegee River,” Appalachian Review, forthcoming
“Sealess,” Untelling, July 2024
“Lullaby in Lane Three,” Women Speak, vol. 9: 15th Anniversary Volume, edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour, March 2024
“Bad Track,” Women Speak, vol. 9: 15th Anniversary Volume, edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour, March 2024
“Mothman Attends the Nelsonville Music Festival," Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, November 2023
“Blue Ghosts,” Moss Puppy Magazine, November 2023
“Before Recycling the Beer Bottles at Night’s End,” MIDLVLMAG, July 2023
“Hunting Season,” Literary Heist, June 2023
“Of Flowers,” Heron Tree, June 2023
“Lagerstroemia indica,” Green Ink Poetry, May 2023
"The Smell of Memory," Appalachian Places, May 2023
"Ode to the Autumn Daffodil," Appalachian Places, May 2023
"Forked Tongue," Appalachian Places, May 2023
“Memories of a Cocktail Waitress Circa 2005,” The Whisky Blot, Apr. 2023
“Ohio Landscape Poem without xxxx,” Change Seven, Apr. 2023
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Sestina,” The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Mar. 2023
“Why I Cannot Can,” The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Mar. 2023
“Paper Mill Pantoum,” Still: The Journal, Feb. 2023
“13 Miles South of Louisa, KY,” Still: The Journal, Feb. 2023
“Atlantic Coast in the Endtimes,” Still: The Journal, Feb. 2023
“The Hocking, My Mother,” AvantAppal(achia), Dec. 2022
“Clotheslines: A Haiku Series,” AvantAppal(achia), Dec. 2022
"Farmer’s Market: A Ghazal," Women Speak, vol. 8, Dec. 2022
"The Land After Time: A Sestina," Women Speak, vol. 8, Dec. 2022
“The Year We Didn’t Send Leaves,” Northern Appalachia Review, Mar. 2022
“Life in the Time of Covid: A Stresstina,” Northern Appalachia Review, Mar. 2022
“The Mighty Ohio” (reprinted), I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, ed. Kari-Gunter-Seymour, Mar. 2022
“Image of My Estranged Grandfather at 94,” Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Oct. 2021
“Sky Burial,” North Dakota Quarterly, Nov. 2020
“The Mighty Ohio,” North Dakota Quarterly, Nov. 2020
“You Always Lose at HORSE,” Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Oct. 2020
“Do you hear that? They’re replying.,” Still: The Journal, Summer 2020
“Just beyond the hill, forage:,” Still: The Journal, Summer 2020
“Forsaken,” Still: The Journal, Summer 2020
“Tanya Berry called them the signs of evil,” Women Speak, vol. 5, Apr. 2020
“Elegy for the Original Burrito Buggy,” Essentially Athens, ed. Kari Gunter-Seymour, Nov. 2019
“Flash Flood Warning, Haywood County,” they will keep speaking the night, ed. Rob Budde, Oct. 2019
“Eulogy for a Forest,” Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Oct. 2019
“Awkward Social Anxiety Poem,” Coffee Poems, ed. Lorraine Healy, June 2019
“Part of the Problem” (reprinted), Women Speak, 10th anniversary collection, Feb. 2019
“On the Naming of Rivers,” Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Oct. 2018
“Part of the Problem,” Women Speak, vol. 3, ed. Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dec. 2017
“After the Ice Storm,” Sprout, Nov. 2014
“Carcinoma sounds like a village in Italy,” ellipsis..., Apr. 2014
“Philosophy, Frozen,” ellipsis..., Apr. 2014
“Long Ride Home,” Bohemia, Apr. 2014
“Paradelle for Catholic Guilt,” Menacing Hedge, Summer 2013
“Dreaming, Poorly Executed,” Menacing Hedge, Summer 2013
“Saying Farewell to South Carolina,” Menacing Hedge, Summer 2013
“My dear, I am bleeding,” Menacing Hedge, Summer 2013
“How I Explain to My Mother that She Should Not Eat the Sweet Tarts in the Freezer Because They’re Blotted with LSD,” Emerge, Dec. 2012
“Eleventh Step of Grieving,” A Poetry Congeries, May 2012
“Upright,” WTF: What the Fiction, Jan. 2012
Creative Nonfiction
“When A Saunter Starts to Taunt Her: Exploring the Outdoors with Disabilities,” special issue of The Goose on “Moving on Land,” edited by Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald, November 2023
"'You Can’t Go Home Again': COVID, Cancer, and 23 North," To Write the World: An Anthology of SE Ohio Writers. Ed. Wesley R. Bishop, Belmont County Library and North Meridian Press joint publication, October 2023
“Cornbread, Piss, and Figs: An Essay on Grief and Home,” Reckon Review, May 2023
“Uprooted,” Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jessica Cory, WVU Press, 2019.
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, 11/2024
“Environmental Kinship and Community Recognition in Lumbee Literature”
International Mountain Studies Conference, Boone, NC, 10/2024
“How Can Appalachian Journal Support Trans-Mountainous Connections?”
*Proposal accepted, but conference cancelled due to Hurricane Helene damage
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, virtual conference, 04/2024
“Environmental Kinship and Community Recognition in Lumbee Literature”
Appalachian Studies Association, Cullowhee, NC, 03/2024
“Moving (in the) Mountains: Disability and the Evolution of Place”
Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies, Charlotte, NC, 02/2024
“Expansive Environmentalism in the 19th century: Sarah Winnemucca, Hannah Crafts, and Tesseracting Planes”
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Spotlight, virtual event, 02/2024
“Ecologies of Place and Resilience”
Rhetoric and Composition Institute event held by the English Department at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 02/2024
“Helping Students with Severe Mental Health Challenges”
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, 01/2024
“Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, 11/2023
“Natasha Trethewey and Being Native to Coastal Mississippi”
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, virtual presentation, event held in Portland, OR, joint biennial conference, 07/2023
“Engaging TEK in Appalachia”
Hills and Hollers Non-Tenure Track virtual conference, 06/2023
“Doing Scholarship on the Non-Tenure Track”
Southeast Native Studies Annual Conference, Pembroke, NC, 03/2023
“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry”
New Directions in Indigenous Book History, virtual symposium, 03/2023
“Reading the Archive for Early Indigenous Children’s Literature”
Appalachian Studies Association, Athens, OH, annual conference, 03/2023
“The Importance of Including Indigenous Literature in Appalachian Studies”
I also participated in a reading from I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio’s Poet Laureate, as part of the Women of Appalachia Project.
August Wilson Society, Pittsburgh, PA, biennial colloquium, 03/2023
"August Wilson's Place in Affrilachian and Appalachian Literature"
Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies, Charlotte, NC, annual conference, 02/2023
“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry”
Shaw University, Raleigh, NC (via Zoom), 10/2022
“Poetry Forms, Their Craft, and Their Uses,” undergraduate poetry workshop taught by Austin Hart (Dept. of English).
Bluefield State College, Bluefield, WV (via Google Meet), 10/2022
“Appalachian Literature’s Global Connections,” undergraduate course titled “Regional and Ethnic Literature” taught by Dr. Sudakar Jamkhandi (Dept. of English).
Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina, virtual presentation, event centered in Charlotte, NC, 04/2022
“Recovering Native American Children’s Nature Writing”
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Highlands Biological Station Study Abroad Program, Highlands, NC, 11/2021
“Microcosms of Appalachia,” undergraduate biology/ecology study abroad students taught by instructors Brent Martin, John Lane, and Lilly Knoepp.
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (via WebEx), 10/2021
“A Balancing Act: Navigating Writing, Teaching, and Scholarship,” graduate course titled “Creative Writing as a Profession” taught by John Hoppenthaler (Dept. of English).
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, virtual biennial conference, 07-08/2021
“Home is What You Make It: Remapping, Spatial Sovereignty, and Sense of Place in Lehua Taitano’s A Bell Made of Stones”
Appalachian Studies Association, virtual annual conference, 03/2021
“Queerness in Appalachian Lit: Interviews”
Bluefield State College, Bluefield, WV (via Zoom), 10/2020
“Appalachian Literature’s Global Connections,” undergraduate course titled “Regional and Ethnic Literature” taught by Dr. Sudakar Jamkhandi (Dept. of English)
Appalachian Studies Association, Lexington, KY, annual conference, 03/2020
“Fighting Homogenization and Queer Representation in Appalachian Literature”
*Accepted, but conference canceled due to COVID-19
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (via Skype), 01/2020
“Appalachian Environmental Writing,” graduate course titled “Climate Change Science and Art” taught by Dr. Katherine Martin (Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources).
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, annual conference, 11/2019
“Tommy Pico’s Questioning of ‘Traditional Indianness’”
Emory and Henry Literary Festival (invited talk), Emory, VA, 10/2019
“Gothic Realism in Charles Dodd White’s Short Fiction”
Bluefield State College, Voices of the Mountains event, Bluefield, WV, 09/2019
Invited talk/reading from Mountains Piled upon Mountains
Appalachian Studies Association, Asheville, NC, annual conference, 03/2019
“The Frozen Deaths of Ron Rash”
I also organized a reading from Mountains Piled upon Mountains and participated in the Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel reading.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Birmingham, AL, annual conference, 11/2018
“Environmental Thought and the Importance of Place in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One is Coming to Save Us”
Appalachian Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH, annual conference, 04/2018
“Robert Gipe’s Trampoline and Appalachian Ecofeminism”
Pop Culture Association/American Studies Association Joint Conference, San Diego, CA, annual conference, 04/2017
“Seeking the Supernatural in South American Lit”
North Carolina Teaching and Learning Association, Asheville, NC, annual conference, 03/2017
“Mindfulness in Language” (co-presented with Carrie Murray, Pitt Community College)
Appalachian Studies Association, Blacksburg, VA, annual conference, 03/2017
“Merging Appalachia and Ecocriticism: The Examination of a Subgenre”
Humanities Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA, annual conference, 04/2015
“From Gatewood to Davis: How Technology Changes the Way We Write About the Appalachian Trail”
Duke Young Writer’s Camp, Durham, NC, 06/2014
“Nature and Environmental Poetry,” 6th-12th grade students taught by instructor Kevin Dublin
Northside High School, Pinetown, NC, 12/2011
“An Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Poetry,” 12th grade AP English course taught by Brandon Paul
Southeastern Writing Center Association, Tuscaloosa, AL, annual conference, 02/2011
“Here, And/Or There: Having Two Writing Centers on Campus”
English Graduate Student Organization, Greenville, NC, annual conference, 04/2011
“Buried Imagery: Poems from a Burial Ground”
Selected Conference and Panel Administration
Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Cullowhee, NC, 03/2024
Chair, “Appalachian Environmental Creative Nonfiction” panel
Rooted in the Mountains annual symposium, Cullowhee, NC, 09/2023
Chair, “Appalachian Writing Communities” panel
Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, Greensboro, NC, 05/2023
Moderator, “Lost and Found in Indigenous America” panel
Rooted in the Mountains annual symposium, Cullowhee, NC, 09/2022
Chair, “Appalachian Mental Health Reflected in Literature” panel
Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, virtual, 03/2021
Chair, “Queer Appalachian Literature” panel
Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Asheville, NC, 03/2019
Chair, “Reading from Mountains Piled upon Mountains” panel
Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Cincinnati, OH, 04/2018
Chair, “Eco-Centered Modes and Frameworks of Appalachian Literature” panel
Academic Appointments and Teaching Experience
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Editor, Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, 2024-Present
Graduate Affiliate faculty, Appalachian Studies program, 2024-present
Affiliate faculty, English Department, 2024-Present
English Lecturer, 2023-2024
RC 2001: Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
ENG 2120: African American Literature
ENG 2040: World Literature (taught as Global Indigenous Literature)
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
English Associate Instructor, 2023
English Instructor, 2020-2023
English Lecturer, 2016-2020
ENGL 101: Writing and Rhetoric [including LC versions]
ENGL 202: Writing and Civic Life [including LC versions]
USI 130: University Studies [including with ASP program]
ENGL 206: Literature and the Environment
ENGL 429: Studies in Professional Writing (taught as Environmental and Nature Writing)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Copyeditor, School of Nursing, 2019-2021
Pitt Community College, Winterville, NC
Writing Center Coordinator, 2014-2016
Beaufort County Community College, Washington, NC
Writing Center Assistant Director/Lead Tutor, 2014
Beaufort County Community College, Washington, NC
Adjunct English Instructor, 2014
ENG 111: Writing and Inquiry
Miller-Motte College, Greenville, NC
Adjunct General Education/English Instructor, 2014
ENG 101: Composition I
Edgecombe Community College, Tarboro, NC
Adjunct English Instructor, 2013-2014
ENG 111: Writing and Inquiry
ENG 114: Professional Research and Reporting
DRE 099: Developmental Reading and English, Level 4
Craven Community College, New Bern, NC
Adjunct English Instructor, 2013-2014
ENG 111: Writing and Inquiry
ENG 112: Writing and Research in the Disciplines
ENG 114: Professional Research and Reporting
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2011-2012
ENG 1100: Foundations of College Writing
ENG 1200: Composition
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
University Writing Center Consultant, 2010-2012
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
First-Year Writing Studio Consultant, 2010-2011
Americorps, Chillicothe, OH
GED Course Instructor/Intern with Ross County Children’s Services, 2007-2008
Service and Leadership
Academic Service
Appalachian State University
Department
FT RC Gen-Ed Faculty at large, RC Gen-Ed Program Committee
Cold Mountain Review Committee
Moderator, Capstone Day
College
Guest speaker (invited), graduate bib and methods seminar taught by Mr. Trevor McKenzie
University
AppState MHFA Committee
Guest speaker (invited), “Portraying Indigenous Peoples: Educator, Cast and Crew Workshop” event
Western Carolina University
Department
Member, DEI and Writing Pedagogy Working Group,
Member, English Studies Department NTTF Collegiate Review Committee,
Guest speaker (invited), senior seminar on mental health taught by Dr. Mae Miller Claxton
Assessor, WRCS Assessment Committee
Member, ENGL 202 Outcome Revision Working Group
Ink selection committee (served three nonconsecutive years)
Member, Joyner Fund Committee
Member, DCRD Revision Team
Member, Antiracist Writing Pedagogy Working Group
Member, ENGL 101 Outcome Revisions & Textbook Selection Working Group
ENGL 202 Textbook Selection Committee
Guest speaker (invited), literature and the environment course taught
by Dr. Diane Martinez
Mentor, English Graduate Student Mentorship Program
College
Moderator, 2018 Graduate Research Symposium
University
Assessor, Liberal Studies Assessment (served three nonconsecutive years)
Guest Speaker on Plagiarism, Athletic Department
Virtual Academic Success Coach, 2020
Member, Rooted in the Mountains Symposium Planning Committee
Panelist, Student Athletic Association
Panelist, First Generation College Student Celebration
First Generation Student Advocate
Mentor, MAPS Mentoring Program
Pitt Community College
Tutorial and Academic Success Center Advisory Council
Volunteer Procter, Early College High School
East Carolina University
Discussion leader/panel facilitator (invited), Showing of The Lesser Blessed followed by discussion, Dr. Jessica Bardill, event organizer
English Graduate Student Organization Vice President
English Graduate Student Organization Treasurer
Guest speaker (invited), folklore course taught by Dr. Jim Kirkland
Community Service
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Ars Poetica Exhibit, Blowing Rock, NC
Poetry Judge
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Poetry Competition, Lewisburg, WV
Poetry Competition Judge
Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, Greensboro, NC
Member, Author Selection Committee
Asheville Farmstead School, Candler, NC
Secretary, Board of Directors
Member, Board of Directors
Eppes Middle School, Greenville, NC
Volunteer, “Poetry on Demand” table, Art and Literature Night hosted by Pitt County PAGE
Service to the Profession
Mentor, American Studies Association’s Environmental Justice Caucus
First Reader, CNF
Manuscript Reviewer
Article Reviewer
Comparative American Studies: An International Journal
Trainings and Certifications
Updated First Gen Student Advocate Training, 1/2023
Instructor Training, Mental Health First Aid, 10/2021
Step UP! Bystander Intervention, 3/2021
Bi+ Certified (additional certification through SafeZone), 10/2020
UNC Coaching Skills Seminar, 10/2020
Teaching Online with Impact (updated), Summer 2020
Teaching Online with Impact (pilot,) Summer 2019
GreenZone Certification, 9/2017
SafeZone Certification, 2/2017
Professional Memberships
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Appalachian Studies Association
American Studies Association
North Carolina Writers’ Network
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Alternate ROOTS
Council of Editors of Learned Journals