I am currently a PhD student in English with a concentration in Folklore at The Ohio State University where I am also the Graduate Administrative Associate for The Center for Folklore Studies. My main research interests include fairy tale, folktale, and myth retellings, fairy tales generally, speculative literature (particularly the Gothic and Fantastic), supernatural folklore (especially conceptions of magic and fairylore/witch lore), feminist theory, experimental literature, and digital media.

I did my undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College and my MA work in Folklore at George Mason University. I have studied abroad at Oxford University: Christ Church and the National University of Ireland: Galway as well.

Conference Papers:
2013 – The 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Orlando, FL
Will Present Paper: “Awakening the Darkness: Towards a Poetics of the Gothic Fairy Tale”

2013 – Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture Conference
London, UK
Will Present Paper: “Awakening the Darkness: Towards a Poetics of the Gothic Fairy Tale”

2012 – The American Folklore Society 2012 Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA
Paper: “Sleeping Monsters: Reclaiming the Scandalous History of ‘Sleeping Beauty’”

2012 – After Grimm: Fairy Tales and the Art of Storytelling Conference
London, UK
Paper: “Awake With New Dreams: Reconstructing Ideas of Sleeping and Waking in Feminist Contemporary Retellings of the Fairy Tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’”

2012 – The 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Orlando, FL
Paper: “‘A Girl Who is Both Death and the Maiden’: Reimagining Sleeping Beauty and Snow White as Gothic Monsters in Contemporary Fairy Tale Retellings”

2011 – The American Folklore Society 2011 Annual Meeting
Bloomington, IN
Paper: “Fairy Tales at War: Retelling Fairy Tales as War Narratives in Young Adult Literature”

2011 – MythCon: The 42nd Mythopoeic Society Conference
Albuquerque, NM
Paper: “The Mistress of Magic: Morgan le Fay and Conceptions of Celtic Paganism in Contemporary Arthurian Retellings”

Academic Reviews:
2013 – Folklore Forum
Review of The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Belazs
Translated and with an introduction by Jack Zipes

2012 – Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
Review of Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
by Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan

Awards:
2012 – The MAIS Department Award for Most Outstanding Thesis
George Mason University
Awarded for MA Thesis Entitled: “Dreams Within Dreams: The Sleeping Maiden Fairy Tales and the Gothic Aesthetic in Contemporary Retellings”

2012 – The MAIS Department Academic Excellence Award for Highest GPA
George Mason University

2010 – Elli Köngäs-Maranda Student Paper Prize
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society
Awarded For Paper Entitled: “Awake With New Dreams: Reconstructing Ideas of Sleeping and Waking in Feminist Contemporary Retellings of the Fairy Tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’”

2009 – New Folklore Student AFS Membership Award
George Mason University

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