“Just Do the Next Right Thing”: Hope, Character, and Moral Action in Frozen II
My Surprise Wedding to Jesus: The Weirdest Thing I’ve Ever Done and What I Learned
“In Defense of Partying.” June 2025.
“Dear America, Let’s Party.” June 2025.
“Why Wicked Was My Favorite Christmas Movie.” Christmas letter written in January 2025.
“A Self in Woolf’s Clothing: The Author from the Inside Out in A Room of One’s Own.” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW), Washington, DC, October 2024.
“Throwing Shade at Netherfield: Helping Students Understand Bad Manners in Pride and Prejudice.” ALSCW, Houston, TX, October 2023.
“What the Bible Actually Says About Female Modesty.” Written for Anna Megill in August 2023.
“Good Girls: Female Agency and Convention in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.” PhD diss. Princeton University, 2019.
“Peas to Cranford: Consuming Food and the Novel.” Victorians Institute, Asheville, NC, November 2018. Winner of the Patrick Scott Award for Best Graduate Conference Paper! (See p. 4 if you want to learn how to suck oranges #cranfordstyle)
“The Flat Heroine: Flat Character and Agency in Miss Marjoribanks.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 47, no. 4 (2019): 1-31.
“Secret Agents: Agency without Responsibility in The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Studies in Romanticism, 57, no. 4 (2018): 539-56.
“The Problem with the China: Food and Gender in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park.” The Sigma Tau Delta Review 10 (2013): 66-75.
“No Triumph without Loss: Problems of Intercultural Marriage in Tolkien’s Works.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Review 10 (2013): 69-87.
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