I am a PhD Candidate in English at UC Berkeley, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies. In 2024, I received the Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship from Berkeley's Program in Critical Theory.
My research focuses on the moral problems and panics by which trans people have become widely legible in the Anglophone North Atlantic. My dissertation project, Transsexual Sentimentalism: A Rhetoric of Transphobia, delivers a program for antitransphobic critique by way of a trans feminist history of British sentimental literature and philosophy. An article drawn from my dissertation, "Our Androgynes, Ourselves: The Trans Allegory in Coleridge's Aids to Reflection," is forthcoming from Studies in Romanticism.
Additional research interests include feminist and queer theory, erotic literature, psychoanalysis, and the history of science.
