Welcome! I am a librarian and archivist, a scholar of early modern English literature, and an experienced educator.
Currently, I serve as the Digital Collections Archivist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Before beginning that position, I worked in a variety of archives and libraries in the Boston area, including the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, and the O'Neill Library at Boston College. While in those roles, I earned an MSLIS at Simmons University with a concentration in Archives Management.
Before moving into a career in library science, I worked for over a decade as a scholar and teacher of English literature. I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in English literature, focusing on medieval and early modern literature. My dissertation was about the poet John Milton's responses to seventeenth-century English Sabbath debates. After graduate school, I worked as an English professor at Walla Walla University, earning tenure there. I taught courses for the English Department and Honors Program on academic writing and research, medieval and Renaissance literature, religion and literature, and literary theory. I also served for a year as Director of the Honors Program. I have published articles in peer-reviewed journals including The Seventeenth Century, Religion and Literature, and Milton Studies. My article in Milton Studies won the James Holly Hanford Article Award, presented annually by the Milton Society of America for the best article on John Milton. I continue to be an active scholar, and my research interests include early modern English literature, religious history and biblical studies, gender studies, and book history.