Interested in Classics since childhood, I earned a BA in the University Scholars Program (Classics, Renaissance & Early Modern Studies, and German, summa cum laude) at Baylor University in 2019, receiving the F. Ray Wilson Award for Best Thesis in the Humanities. Thanks to the the Fulbright-University of York Postgraduate Award, I spent some time in York earning an MA in Renaissance Literature. Classics, however, remains my primary field, and I began my PhD studies at Princeton in 2020.

I am interested in Latin literature, especially poetry. My MA thesis dealt with the reception of Lucan as a model of republican authorship by two seventeenth-century English republicans, Lucy Hutchinson and Algernon Sydney. Besides Lucan, I am interested in Latin elegy, early modern classical reception, concepts of the republic, and time and narrative in literature. My article "The Elements of Slaughter: On a Prophetic Acrostic in Lucan, Bellum Civile 7.153-158" appeared in Classical Philology (January 2021). I enjoy working across methodologies and disciplines, bringing disparate areas of study into conversation with each other. My current dissertation work examines nonlinear and anomalous temporalities as alternatives to imperial time in Catullus, Propertius, and (most of all) Lucan.

In my free time, I sew and crochet, play the fiddle, and volunteer with my church. I enjoy reading and am especially a science fiction fan.