Education

PhD, Clemson University, 2025
MA, Clemson University, 2011
BA, Clemson University, 2009

Areas of Specialization

Film Rhetoric
Holocaust Studies
Digital Rhetoric
Service-Learning
Narrative Studies
Digital History Methods

Courses Taught

English 102: Rhetoric and Composition

Presentations

   • “Circulation Rhetoric: Foregrounding Algorithmic Knowledge in Digital Composition Pedagogy.” Rhetoric Society of Europe. Zagreb, Croatia. June 2025.
   • “Leveling Up: Video Games, Response-Ability, and Social Justice.” 2025 Digital Humanities Institute. Hosted by the Digital Humanities Collective of North Carolina via Zoom. April 2025.
   • “A Terministic History Lesson: Using Rhetorical Theory to Rethink Holocaust Pedagogy.” Rhetoric Society of America Madison Student Chapter Spring Symposium. April 2025. Presented via Zoom.
   • “Foregrounding the Human in the Humanities: Teaching About AI, Agency, and Cultural Memory.” Clemson Teaching Excellence Symposium. Clemson, SC. January 2025.
   • “It Wasn’t Just Auschwitz: Assessing Popular Culture's Impact on Spatiotemporal Holocaust Knowledge.” Popular Culture/American Culture Association of the South. Greenville, SC. October 2024.
   • “Automated History Lessons: Examining the Influence of AI on Modern Holocaust Representation.” Humanities in the Machine: AI's Academic Revolution. Clemson, SC. October 2024.
   • “Say ‘I,’ It's OK: Using Digital Play to Foreground Personal Identity in the Composition Classroom.” Computers and Writing. Fort Worth, TX. June 2024. Presented via Zoom.
   • “Beyond the Camps: A Critique of Holocaust Cinema’s Depictions of Displacement.” Rhetoric Society of America. Denver, CO. May 2024.
   • “Coding Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Analyzing Holocaust Visual Culture.” Rhetoric Society of America. Denver, CO. May 2024.
   • “This Work Is Based On…: Adaptation and Holocaust Knowledge in American Film and Television.” Popular Culture Association. Chicago, IL. March 2024.
   • “A New Kind of Denial: What a Recent Book Ban Says About Contemporary Holocaust Knowledge.” Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association. Portland, OR. October 2023.
   • “A Matter of Framing: Examining Social Media as a Scaffold for Teaching Video Production in Composition Courses.” Rhetoric Society of Europe. Tübingen, Germany. June 2023.