Education

EDUCATION

06/2017-Present Florida State University (Anticipated Completion June 2023)
PhD in English
Area of Specialty—Indigenous Studies and Intersections in Early America
Dissertation: “Proto-American Explorer Narratives as Maps: Interactive Cartographic Representations of the Proto-American Literary Past”; John Mac Kilgore, Major Professor

08/2018-05/2021 Florida State University
MA in Digital Humanities
Area of Specialty—Narrative Spatiality and Geographic Information Systems
Thesis: “Deep Mapping as Praxis to Decolonize the Proto American Past: ‘Centering Indigeneity in Imperialized First Contact Narratives Using GIS’”; Allen J. Romano, Major Professor

08/2014-05/2016 University of Alabama
MA in American Studies
Area of Specialty: Colonial to Early Republic—American Identity Thesis: “Defining a New People: ‘Native American Images in Revolutionary Newspaper Mastheads’”; Edward Tang, Major Professor

01/2010-12/2016 University of Alabama
BA in English
Minor in Creative Writing

01/2010-05/2014 University of Alabama
BA in Communication-Journalism
Minors in English and Creative Writing