Education
M.A.; M.Phil. (French literature), New York University
B.A. (foreign languages), Austin Peay State University
Research interests
Early modern literature and thought (French and Latin); 16th-century medical writing; Eco-criticism; Renaissance lexicography and philology; medieval thought, especially medicine and its reception; classical reception broadly.
I am a PhD Candidate writing a dissertation entitled "Natural Contemplations: Medicine, Poetry, and Ecology in Early Modern France," which focuses on the interconnectedness of "nature" and "thought" in the early modern period. I work largely on French and Latin medical texts, grammars, and didactic poetry, as well as vernacular prose. I was awarded a Georges Lurcy fellowship (2021–22) and am a pensionnaire étranger at the École normale supérieure in the Département des sciences de l'Antiquité. Outside of my dissertation research, I have written more broadly on classical reception (especially in early modern lexicography and commentaries). I also serve as summer teaching faculty in Classics (Latin) at the Latin-Greek Institute at CUNY/Brooklyn College.
Publications:
Définir la nature à la Renaissance : le monde et le sexe dans l'atelier du lexicographe (forthcoming, 2022, in Albineana, Classiques Garnier)
'nunc incipit' — Occitan Grammar as Ecology (under revision for French Studies)
Selected Conference Papers:
Mistranslating "Physiology": Separating Nature and Thought in the 17th Century
(Vivamente — CSMBR, Pisa, 2022)
Composing the Body: Typographical Anatomy in Early Modern France
(RSA, Dublin, 2022)
(In)humanus: Terence's H.T. and Early Modern Humanism
(NeMLA, Baltimore, 2022)
Medicine and Metamorphosis: The Case of the Ovide moralisé
(Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2021)
Soul, Life and Discourse: Montaigne's Ethics and Ontology of the Nonhuman
(MLA, Chicago, 2019)