I'm a PhD candidate in the English department, and I work on sixteenth and seventeenth-century British literature, with particular interests in poetry, religion, classical reception and the digital humanities. My dissertation research argues that the trope of co-extension in three-dimensional space played a distinctive role in the depictions of intimacy offered in the work of seventeenth-century thinkers such as John Milton, Thomas Browne and Margaret Cavendish, texts which provide distinctive accounts of what, for an early modern subject, might be disappointing about life in the body, while paradoxically affirming its centrality for the constitution of sociable selves.
Previously, as an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, I majored in Greek and Latin, as well as English with a creative writing focus, and I'm always happy to talk about very old or very new poems! I also enjoy skating very badly on the Midway Ice Rink, exploring the world of Chicago thrifting and perfecting my no-knead bread.