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Contents

• Current Status
• Education
• Research Interests
• Teaching Experience
• Awards and Honors
• Professional Activities
• Technical Skills
• Professional Affiliations
• Conferences
• Invited Presentations
• Academic Podcasting

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2025 - 2026.

Current Academic Status/Employment

Ph.D. Texts & Technology, University of Central Florida (expected 2029)

• Specialization: Digital Humanities

Graduate Certificate, Digital Humanities in the Age of AI, University of Central Florida (expected 2027)

Adjunct Professor. Department of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida, August 2024-Present.

Education

M.A. Literary, Cultural and Textual Studies, University of Central Florida, (2025)

• Final Project: Decolonialism Independent Study

  • Advisor: Dr. Amrita Ghosh, Ph.D.

B.A. English Literature, University of Central Florida (2023)

• Honors in the Major Thesis : Political Bodies in the Ulster Myth Cycle: Space, Conflict, and Comedy in “Scéla Mucce Meicc Da Thó.”

  • Advisors: Stephen C.E. Hopkins, Ph.D (Chair), Alison Hudson, D.Phil, Christian Beck, Ph.D.

Research Interests

Cultural Studies; Digital Humanities; Irish Studies; South Asian Studies

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record

• ENC 1101: Sociocultural Construct for Community Situated Writing.
  • Spring, 2026 (3) Sections, Mixed-Mode; Fall, 2025 (1) Section, Face-to-Face; Fall 2024, (2) Sections, Face-to-Face.
• ENC 1102: Sociocultural Construct for Research Writing.
  • Fall 2025, (2) sections; Spring 2025, (2) Sections.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Joyner, Veronica. ENC 4280: Technical Writing Style, Spring 2024.

• Pugh, Tison. ENL 3378: Harry Potter Studies, Spring 2024.

• Applen, JD. LIT 4433: Literature of Science and Technology, Fall 2023.

• Pugh, Tison. LIT 3132: Legend and Literature of King Arthur, Fall 2023.

Awards and Honors

Fellowships

• Graduate Presentation Fellowship, Fall 2025. $500.

• Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, 2023-2024. $5,000.

• Graduate Presentation Fellowship, Fall 2023. $500.

• Student Research Grant, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Central Florida, Spring 2023. $750.

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Office of Undergraduate Research, Summer 2022. $2,000.

Grants and Scholarships

• Patricia Angley Memorial Scholarship, Department of English, Fall 2023. $1,000.

Other Awards

• Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Department of English, Spring 2023.

• Outstanding Digital Humanist, Department of English, Spring 2023.

Professional Activities

• Treasurer. Texts & Technology Student Organization, October 2025 - Current.
  • Responsibilities included but are not limited to:

• Organizer. 2025 English Symposium, University of Central Florida, August 2024 - March 2025.

  • Thematic development for the conference and CFP.

  • Graphic design and program booklet layout.

• Associate Editor. The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal.

  • Encouraged the publication of undergraduate research and pre-professional scholarship.

  • Assisted students throughout the writing and revision process.

  • Co-led workshops on publication strategies.

  • Edited all essays for publication.

  • Lecture: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Track 2, Publishing Workshop series for the UCF Undergraduate Research Journal.

  • Reviewed resumes with the hiring committee.

  • Helped select potential applicants and judged editing tests for interviewees.

  • Co-lead interviews and co-selected the final candidate with the Faculty Editor.

Digital Humanities Contributions

• Select XML entries in Johnson’s Dictionary Online, a complete, searchable online edition of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1st and 4th folio editions (1755 and 1773).

Technical Skills

• Programming & Scripting: HTML, CSS, JS, Python XML (TEI encoding)

• Version Control & Development Tools: Codeberg, Git, GitHub, VSCodium, Visual Studio Code

• Design & Media Tools: Adobe Creative Cloud, GIMP, Scribus

• Publishing & Content Management: Markdown, Cargo Collective

Professional Affiliations

• Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)

• Modern Language Association (MLA)

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

Conferences

International Conferences

• “Constraining Generativity: Rethinking Experimental Literary Futures through Collaborative Authorship and ‘Recapitating Massive,’” Electronic Literature Organization, York University, Toronto, Canada, July 2025.

• “Seen, Not Consumed: Decolonial Aesthetics and Refusing Dominant Framing from Kashmir to Belfast,” Early Researcher Conclave and Colloquium 2025: South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations, Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata, 23-24 June 2025.

National Conferences

• In Progress, Pending Acceptance. “Critical Making’s Debts and Extensions: Engaging Decolonial Epistemologies as Predicate,” Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026, Michigan State University, 13-17 April 2026.

• In Progress, Pending Acceptance. “Francoism: Markov-noveling for Decoding Eurotrash and Encoding Feminism in Jess Franco’s Cinema,” Society For Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, 26-29 March 2025.

• “From Kashmiri Theatre to Netflix: Hamid’s Colonial Relations, State-Mediated Cultural Productions, and Cinematic Propaganda,” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22-25 October 2025.

• “A Fluid Archives of Power: EPCOT’s World Showcase and Necropolitics, the Perception Machine of Global Cultures,” Bridges and Borders: The Archive, Carnegie Mellon University, Virtual, April 2025.

• “Prejudice and Material Control in Early Irish Literature: ‘Athairne & Amairgen’ and Otherness in the Ulster Cycle,” 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Mich. Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, May 2024.

• “‘I see a sweet country’: Ireland’s Borders and the Transhistorical Body of the Literary Feminine,” 2024 Bridges and Borders: Media (In)Forms Conference, Carnegie Mellon English Graduate Student Colloquia, Virtual, April 2024.

• “Spatiality in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Topology of a Phantom City: The Author as Cartographer,” Spatial Imagination in the Humanities, Texas State University, Virtual, May 2021.

Regional Conferences

• “Whose Memory?: Moving the Centre by Twining the EPCOT World Showcase,” Planetary Prisms: Solidarities, Transformations, and Resistances, 14th UCF English Symposium, University of Central Florida, March 2025.

• “‘Look at our revolutionary, pissing his pants’: Hamid, Adaptation, and State-Funded Depictions of Occupation and Innocence,” 2024 English Symposium, University of Central Florida, March 2024.

• “Scéla Muicce Meic Da Thó: The Ulster Cycle, Nationalism, and Spatiality in Belfast’s Murals,” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, October 2023.

• “From Dindshenchas to Place and Space: Spatiality and Medieval Irish Studies.” Virtual Undergraduate Research Conference (VURC), The Center for Interdisciplinary Writing and Research, Daytona State College, Virtual, April 2023.

• “Ancient Defenders in the Modern Body Politic: The Ulster Cycle’s Boy and Man Heroes” (Poster). Student Scholar Symposium, University of Central Florida, March 2023.

• “An Introductory Survey of the Old Irish Language” (Poster).Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Showcase, University of Central Florida, July 2022.

Invited Presentations

Panel Chair

• “Performance and Power in the Postcolonial Nation State.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22-25 October 2025.

• “Cultural Production, Identity, and Migration.” Planetary Prisms: Solidarities, Transformations, and Resistances, 14th UCF English Symposium, March 2025.

Panelist

• “Being a Good Research Mentee.” INTRO to Research Program, University of Central Florida, October 2022.

Academic Podcasting

Host & Interviewer

• “Interview with Christopher Norris (Steak Mtn),” YouTube, uploaded by Glenn Ritchey III, 19 May 2025. Recorded for ENC 1101: Sociocultural Construct for Community Situated Writing.

• “Interview with John Trefry (Inside the Castle),” YouTube, uploaded by Glenn Ritchey III, 19 Nov 2024. Recorded for ENC 1101: Sociocultural Construct for Community Situated Writing.

Interviewee

• “Episode 34: History Research Projects/Posters at the 2023 UCF Student Scholar Symposium Event,” Knights HistoryCast, from the UCF Department of History, published 21 May 2023.