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 and Ecopoetics
Awards and Recognition
Chapbook Disposable received an honorable mention in Sheila-Na-Gig Editions' First Chapbook Contest, 2024
Poem “Blue Ghosts,” nominated by Moss Puppy Magazine for a Best of the Net Award, 2024
Recipient, High Country Humanities Travel Fund Award, 2024
Recipient, Keith Cushman Graduate Prize for Scholarly Publications for "The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women's Poetry," 2023
Finalist, WCU College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, 2023
Attendee, Summer PhD Residency Program, National Humanities Center, 2020
“Faculty Favorite” WCU student-athlete (football) nominated award, 2019
Poem “The Mighty Ohio” was a finalist in the Still: The Journal poetry contest, 2019
“Faculty Favorite” WCU student-athlete (volleyball) nominated award, 2018
Recipient, UNCG Fowler-Feather Scholarship for Graduate Summer Study, 2019
Poem “In A Sleepy Little County” was a finalist in the Still: The Journal poetry contest, 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.
“‘We are one ecology’: How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change,” special issue of Comparative American Studies: An International Journal on “Wild Possibility”: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene. Eds. Wendy McMahon and Rebecca Tillett, 2025.
“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. Kirstin 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, 2020, 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 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 Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival: Affects, Matterings, and Literacies Across Appalachia by Caleb Pendygraft, Journal of Appalachian Studies, forthcoming
Rev. of Girlhood x A Haunting by Jessica Rae Bergamino, RHINO, May 2025
Rev. of Kings of Coweetsee and The Woman with the Stone Knife, both by Dale Neal, North Carolina Literary Review, April 2025
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: A Regional Studies Review, 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
“Crawdads Guide Me Home,” Tributaria, edited by Sherry Cook Stanforth, Richard Hague, and Michael Thompson, forthcoming
“My Father Loves Joni Mitchell,” Sheila-Na-Gig online, forthcoming Summer 2025
“Ode to the Pill Bug,” Poetry in Plain Sight, North Carolina Poetry Society, May 2025
“No Word for Blue,” Humana Obscura Anthology, March 2025
“Borage,” Humana Obscura Anthology, March 2025
“Power Dynamic, May 2023,” Women Speak, vol. 10, edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour, January 2025
“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
“Autumn on the Tuckasegee River,” Appalachian Review, Fall 2023
“Blue Ghosts,” Moss Puppy Magazine, October 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.
Public-Facing Writing
“Progesterone Hypersensitivity: How Pregnancy Can Make You Allergic to Your Own Hormones,” Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine, Dec. 2024.
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
“Getting Published in Appalachian Studies” (roundtable); “Reading of the Women of Appalachia Project,” Appalachian Studies Association, Cookeville, TN, March 2025
“Managing Submissions: Providing Literary Criticism to Your Peers” (breakout session), North Carolina College Media Association, Boone, NC, February 2025
“Environmental Kinship and Community Recognition in Lumbee Literature,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2024
“How Can Appalachian Journal Support Trans-Mountainous Connections?” International Mountain Studies Conference, Boone, NC, October 2024 *Proposal accepted, but conference cancelled due to Hurricane Helene damage
“Environmental Kinship and Community Recognition in Lumbee Literature” Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, virtual conference, April 2024
“Moving (in the) Mountains: Disability and the Evolution of Place,” Appalachian Studies Association, Cullowhee, NC, March 2024
“Expansive Environmentalism in the 19th century: Sarah Winnemucca, Hannah Crafts, and Tesseracting Planes,” Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies, Charlotte, NC, February 2024
“Ecologies of Place and Resilience,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Spotlight, virtual event, February 2024
“Helping Students with Severe Mental Health Challenges,” Rhetoric and Composition Institute event held by the English Department at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, February 2024
“Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2024
“Natasha Trethewey and Being Native to Coastal Mississippi,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2023
“Engaging TEK in Appalachia,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, virtual presentation, event held in Portland, OR, July 2023
“Doing Scholarship on the Non-Tenure Track,” Hills and Hollers Non-Tenure Track virtual conference, June 2023
“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry,” Southeast Native Studies annual conference, Pembroke, NC, March 2023
“Reading the Archive for Early Indigenous Children’s Literature,” New Directions in Indigenous Book History, virtual symposium, March 2023
“The Importance of Including Indigenous Literature in Appalachian Studies;” “Reading from I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing,” Appalachian Studies Association, Athens, Ohio, March 2023.
"August Wilson's Place in Affrilachian and Appalachian Literature," August Wilson Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2023
“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry,” Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies, Charlotte, NC, February 2023
“Poetry Forms, Their Craft, and Their Uses,” virtual visit to undergraduate poetry workshop taught by Austin Hart (Dept. of English), Shaw University, October 2022.
“Appalachian Literature’s Global Connections,” virtual visit to undergraduate course titled “Regional and Ethnic Literature” taught by Dr. Sudakar Jamkhandi (Dept. of English), Bluefield State College, October 2022.
“Recovering Native American Children’s Nature Writing,” Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina, virtual presentation, event centered in Charlotte, NC, April 2022
“Microcosms of Appalachia,” undergraduate biology/ecology study abroad students from UNC-Chapel Hill taught by instructors Brent Martin, John Lane, and Lilly Knoepp, Highlands Biological Station Study Abroad Program, Highlands, NC, November 2021.
“A Balancing Act: Navigating Writing, Teaching, and Scholarship,” virtual visit to graduate course titled “Creative Writing as a Profession” taught by John Hoppenthaler (Dept. of English), East Carolina University, October 2021.
“Home is What You Make It: Remapping, Spatial Sovereignty, and Sense of Place in Lehua Taitano’s A Bell Made of Stones,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, virtual conference, July 2021
“Queerness in Appalachian Lit: Interviews;” “Reading from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, vol. 23,” Appalachian Studies Association, virtual conference, March 2021.
“Appalachian Literature’s Global Connections,” virtual visit to undergraduate course titled “Regional and Ethnic Literature” taught by Dr. Sudakar Jamkhandi (Dept. of English), Bluefield State College, October 2020.
“Fighting Homogenization and Queer Representation in Appalachian Literature,” Appalachian Studies Association, Lexington, KY, March 2020. *Proposal accepted, but conference cancelled due to COVID-19.
“Appalachian Environmental Writing,” virtual visit to a graduate course titled “Climate Change Science and Art” taught by Dr. Katherine Martin (Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources), North Carolina State University, January 2020.
“Tommy Pico’s Questioning of ‘Traditional Indianness’,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2019
“Gothic Realism in Charles Dodd White’s Short Fiction,” Emory & Henry Literary Festival, Emory, VA, October 2019
“Voices of the Mountains” reading and event, Bluefield State College, Bluefield, WV, September 2019.
“The Frozen Deaths of Ron Rash;” “Reading from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, vol. 21,” Appalachian Studies Association, Asheville, NC, March 2019
Environmental Thought and the Importance of Place in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One is Coming to Save Us,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Birmingham, AL, November 2018
“Robert Gipe’s Trampoline and Appalachian Ecofeminism,” Appalachian Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH, April 2018
“Seeking the Supernatural in South American Lit,” Pop Culture Association/American Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 2017
“Mindfulness in Language” (co-presented with Carrie Murray, Pitt Community College) North Carolina Teaching and Learning Association, Asheville, NC, 03/2017
“Merging Appalachia and Ecocriticism: The Examination of a Subgenre,” Appalachian Studies Association, Blacksburg, VA, March 2017
“From Gatewood to Davis: How Technology Changes the Way We Write About the Appalachian Trail,” Humanities Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2015
“Nature and Environmental Poetry,” 6th-12th grade students taught by instructor Kevin Dublin, Duke Young Writer’s Camp, Durham, NC, June 2014.
“An Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Poetry,” 12th grade AP English course taught by Brandon Paul, Northside High School, Pinetown, NC, December 2011
“Here, And/Or There: Having Two Writing Centers on Campus,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Tuscaloosa, AL, annual conference, February 2011
“Buried Imagery: Poems from a Burial Ground,” English Graduate Student Organization, Greenville, NC, April 2011
Selected Conference and Panel Administration
Chair, “Appalachian Environmental Creative Nonfiction” panel, Appalachian Studies Association, Cullowhee, NC, March 2024
Chair, “Appalachian Writing Communities” panel, Rooted in the Mountains, Cullowhee, NC, September 2023
Moderator, “Lost and Found in Indigenous America” panel, Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, Greensboro, NC, May 2023
Chair, “Appalachian Mental Health Reflected in Literature” panel, Rooted in the Mountains, Cullowhee, NC, September 2022
Chair, “Queer Appalachian Literature” panel, Appalachian Studies Association, virtual, March 2021
Chair, “Reading from Mountains Piled upon Mountains” panel, Appalachian Studies Association, Asheville, NC, March 2019
Chair, “Eco-Centered Modes and Frameworks of Appalachian Literature” panel, Appalachian Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH, April 2018
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 and Program
FT RC Gen-Ed Faculty at large, RC Gen-Ed Program Committee
Cold Mountain Review Committee
Moderator, Capstone Day
Guest speaker (invited), graduate bib and methods seminar taught by Mr. Trevor McKenzie
Appalachian Studies Scholarship Committee
University
AppState MHFA Committee
Guest speaker (invited), High Country Humanities event, “Portraying Indigenous Peoples: Educator, Cast and Crew Workshop”
Support Facilitator, Western North Carolina Research for Resilience and Recovery (WNC R3) Workshop
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, 2023
Instructor Training, Mental Health First Aid, 2021
Step UP! Bystander Intervention, 2021
Bi+ Certified (additional certification through SafeZone), 2020
UNC Coaching Skills Seminar, 2020
Teaching Online with Impact (updated), 2020
Teaching Online with Impact (pilot,) 2019
GreenZone Certification, 2017
SafeZone Certification, 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