Winner of Outstanding Graduate Journalism Thesis Award*: "their concept of beauty / is manufactured / i am not -rupi kaur": How Remediation Theory Reconciles Instapoetry's Genre, Branded Authenticities, and Critical Positionality*
Technology (AI, Virtual Reality, Social Media)
Print Culture History (Magazines, Feminism, Popular Literature)
Creative Writing (Pedagogy, Poetry & Nonfiction)
- "The Kenyon Review's 2024 Summer Reading Recommendations": Our Air by Nora Treatbaby - May 2024
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"Daddy," "Indifferent Dog," and "Too much has happened---" printed in Dogboy Zine - June 2023
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"A roundabout way of saying 'Se Busca Asesino'," in Ghost Proposal Issue 13 - March 20, 2023
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"At least 18 photos of fish," in Ekphrastic Review - Apr 9, 2022
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"Ghazal for Arjeet," in Going Viral, Austin Poets International's CoronaVirus Anthology - 2020
re•mediate, literary magazine Founding Editor, Issue-0 Launched Aug. 1, 2024
Black Warrior Review, graduate-run literary magazine, Univ. of Alabama Art & Design Editor, Issues 48.2, 49.1, 49.2, 50.1, and 50.2
- ""Crisis" as a Catalyzing, Generative Program in Writing Classrooms
Florida College English Association Conference
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"Docupoetics in 360: Experiments in Place-Memory as/in Virtual Reality"
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"I Think We're Getting Slobs": Americentric Bias in The Ugly American"
- "ChatGPoeT: Coaching AI & Poetic Forms" (Delivered virtually) -Sep 12-14, 2024
- "'The Only Character is an Old Woman, Fiercely Alive': How Ms. Magazine's Poetry Shaped What 'Liberation' Looked Like" Feb 3-5, 2023
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"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Our Stor[y/ies]? : A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of 2 Popular Histories of the United States"
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"Frank Lloyd When: Visualizing FSC's Archived Blueprints" (with the McKay Archives Center)
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"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?: A Literary Analysis of Popularly-Marketed Narratives of U.S. History"
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"On to Avalon": The History of Avalon Groves (with the McKay Archives Center)
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[Alabama Scholastic Press Association]{.underline} "Lit Mags For All: How to Start a Literary Arts Magazine Your Community Reads (x2, 2023 & 2024)
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[Lit]{.underline} Mag [Reading Club Chat with the Editors of]{.underline} [*Black Warrior Review*, Lit Mag News
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Writing Center Tutor Training Week, University of Alabama, by invitation of director
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Florida Southern College Career Services Center, by invitation of Jeannie Pond
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EN 508 (3D Poetics Course), University of Alabama, by invitation of instructor
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EN 200 Intro to Creative Writing Class, University of Alabama, by invitation of instructor
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Speaking of English: Senior Seminar Redux, Lakeland, FL
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MFA Creative Writing Graduating Student Readings (Sella Granata Gallery, U.Alabama)
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Night of the Aesthetes, mixed media showcase (Sella Granata Gallery, U.Alabama)
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Poets vs. Prose Fall Classic (Burrell Odom Park, Tuscaloosa, AL)
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Pure Products Reading @ the Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Tent (52nd Annual Kentuck Arts Festival, Northport, Alabama)
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Upperclass Student Reading, (Ora Mae Gallery, Holt, AL)
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"A Reading of Poetry" (University of Alabama)
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"American Idiots and International Friends" (University of Alabama)
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Art Night, Turbo Coffee, Tuscaloosa, AL
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Documentary Poetics Reading (University of Alabama, Zoom)
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Visiting Student Week Current Student Reading (University of Alabama, Zoom)
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First-Year Student Reading Series (University of Alabama, Zoom)
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EN 101 - Narrative Writing (Fall 2021 / Spring 2024)
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EN 102 - Research Writing (Spring 2022) - Theme: "Hidden in Plain Sight"
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EN 103 - Honors Composition (Fall 2023) - Theme: "Writing about Crisis"
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EN 200 - Introduction to Creative Writing (Spring 2023)
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EN 308 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop (Spring 2024)
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Aug 2020 - May 2021 Writing Center Tutor
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May 2 - June 30, 2021 Dissertation Writing Challenge Group Leader
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Sept. 16 - Oct. 28, 2020 Dissertation Writing Challenge Group Leader
- Summer 2018 Language School Intern (English Tutor, English Camp Leader, Marketing)
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Logistics Chair/Exhibition Committee, Electronic Literature Conference 2024, (Un)Linked, Electronic Literature Organization
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Graduating Student Reading Series (University of Alabama @ Sella-Granata Gallery)
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Visiting Student Week of Welcome Events (University of Alabama, Zoom)
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"Pride & Joy" Reading (at Turbo Coffee Tuscaloosa)
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First-Year Reading Series (at University of Alabama, Sella Granata Gallery)
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Second-Year Reading Series (at Turbo Coffee Tuscaloosa)
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"InDesign & The Creative Writer Studio Sessions," University of Alabama, 4 sessions
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Biannual MFA Clothing Swap & Donation Drive
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Electronic Literature Organization (Un)Linked Conference Performances, 2 nights, July 2024
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Gulf Coast, The Offing, & Black Warrior Review Offsite Reading, Seattle, WA, March 2023
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Puerto Del Sol & Black Warrior Review Launch Reading, Philadelphia, PA, March 2022
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Presentation Fellowship, UCF Graduate School - Funding to attend FCEA Conference, 2024
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2024-2028 Trustees Doctoral Fellowship - 4-years full funding for Ph.D. program.
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Summer 2024 Summer Mentoring Fellowship - Project-based program planning E-Lit.Conference
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Summer 2023 Travel Grant to Granada, Nicaragua, for Creative Writing Thesis Research
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2020 - 2022 Graduate Council Fellowship
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2020 - 2021 Truman Capote Fellowship
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Outstanding Journalism Thesis by a Graduate Student, UA School of Communication and Information Sciences, April 6, 2024
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Outstanding Creativity in Print Design, Student Media Oscar Awards for Outstanding Student Creativity & Responsibility April 19, 2023
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3rd Place Graduate Paper Alabama Journalism Historians Association, Southeast Symposium, Panama City, FL, Feb. 5, 2023
- [Finalist for the Ultraslant Prize]{.underline} Ghost Proposal, Digital Literary Magazine, August 15, 2022
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Spring 2020 Joe P. Ruthven Award for Leadership, Graduation Award
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Outstanding English Senior, Modern Language Department
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James C. Rogers Outstanding Male Senior Award, Student Gov. Assoc.
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Diversity Initiative of the Year (Awarded with event co-organizers)
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Southern Ambassadors Rising Star, April 7, 2019
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Carroll and Lucy Teeter Journalism Award, Spring 2018
Categories: Literary Magazine Overall, Lit. Mag. Cover, " Art, " Art Portfolio, " Photography, " Poetry, " Poetry Layout, " Photography Portfolio, " Illustration, " Short Fiction, " Creative Nonfiction, " Carry-In : Illustration, " On-site: [Fiction / Illustration / Poetry]
MFA Representative, Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department, U. of Alabama, Fall 2022
Florida Southern Department of English & Modern Languages: First-year mentor
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Creative Writing Studies Organization
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Florida Digital Humanities Consortium
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Electronic Literature Organization
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Kappa Tau Alpha, National Journalism and Mass Communication Honor Society
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Lambda Pi Eta, Omega Iota Chapter, International Communications Honor Society
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Omicron Delta Kappa, Florida Southern College Circle, International Honor Society
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Sigma Tau Delta, Psi Epsilon Chapter, International English Honor Society
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Creative Writing Studies Organization Conference, Blacksburg, VA, Nov. 2024
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Florida College English Association Conference Ybor City, FL, Jan. 2025/Melbourne, FL, 2017
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Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, FL, Sept. 2024
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Digitorium: University of Alabama Digital Humanities Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, Sept. 2024
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Electronic Literature Conference, Virtual, July 2024
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American Journalism Historians Association, Southeast Symposium, Panama City, FL, Feb. 2023
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Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, 2021-2024
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Diversity and Inclusion Conference, Still We Rise: Resilience in Social Experiences, St. Petersburg, FL, Feb. 2020
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Association of Student Government Associations, Washington, D.C. Oct. 2019
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College Media Association Conference, 2018-2019
Adobe InDesign, Express, Google Drive / Suite
Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Snapchat, BeReal, Facebook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Zotero
Adobe Audition, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, Hootsuite, Wordpress
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Manuscript Layout W. artist Kalie Boyne to print graphic novel My World Belongs To Me
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Manuscript Layout W. poet Kwoya Fagin Maples to lay out section of poetry manuscript
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Illustrated Map Design W. nonfiction writer Kathryn Fitzpatrick's manuscript, hand-drawn map of CT
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Chapbook Layout W. poet Marzetta to layout [design print book collection The Garden
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Poetry Commission For Fiverr clients, formatted lines of poetry into concrete shapes
- As.Ti. - Medical School Applications & Secondaries, June-August 2024 (admitted)
- Ar.Ti. - Dental School Graduation Speech, May 2024 (delivered)
- Ca.Th. - Law School Applications, 2023 Cycle (admitted & waitlisted, accepted offer)
- Ca.Th. - Law School Applications, 2022 Cycle (admitted & waitlisted, deferred admission)
- Ca.Wh. - Master's Program Application, 2023 Cycle (admitted, deferred admission)
- Ma.Ga. - P.T. School Applications, 2022 Cycle (admitted to two schools)
- Sp.As. - Medical School Applications, 2021 Cycle (admitted)
- Mo.Mc. - Fulbright ETA Application (awarded upon later submission)
- Ar.Ti. - Dental School Applications, 2019 Cycle (admitted to two schools)