About Me

I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor at Methodist University. I earned my PhD in the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) program at Clemson University in 2021. My dissertation, Altared Bodies: Evangelical Purity Rhetorics in the Age of Sexual Politics, won the Victor J. Vitanza outstanding RCID dissertation award in April 2022 and was one of three finalist for the Religious Communication Association’s Top Dissertation award in 2022.

My research interests center on cultural and feminist rhetorics with specific attention to gender, sexuality, reproductive rhetorics, and religious trauma. I have recent scholarship in KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society, Intraspection: A Journal of Rhetoric Culture and Style, Canopy Forum, as well as several edited collections. I am currently working on a book project focusing on the rhetorics of Purity Culture. My research and teaching continue to evolve from my investments in building just, equitable, and communal frameworks for bodily autonomy.