CV

Last modified: September 2024
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Professional Appointments

  • 2020–present - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
  • 2019–2020 - Junior Assistant, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
  • 2016–2018 - Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Education

  • 2020 - PhD, English, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Dissertation: “Literature and the Production of Geography in Nineteenth-Century America”
    • Committee: Christopher J. Looby (chair); John Agnew; Michael C. Cohen; Sarah Tindal Kareem
  • 2014 - MA, English, University of California, Los Angeles
  • 2010 - BA with High Distinction, English, University of Virginia

Awards, Fellowships & Honors

  • 2017 - Emily Dickinson International Society Critical Institute Keynote Award (EDIS)
  • 2017–2018 - UCLA English Department Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • 2016 - Departmental Conference Travel Award (UCLA)
  • 2014–2015 - Mellon Foundation Graduate Pedagogy Working Group and Fellowship (UCLA)
  • 2014 - Departmental Summer Research Grant (UCLA)
  • 2013 - Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets
  • 2012 - Graduate Summer Research Mentorship with Christopher Looby (UCLA)
  • 2011 - UCLA University Fellowship

Publications

Book Chapters

  • “Dickinson’s Geographic Poetics,” in The New Emily Dickinson Studies, ed. Michelle Kohler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019).

Reviews

  • “Review of Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy, ed. Éric Athenot and Cristanne Miller.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 47, no. 3 (April 2018).
  • “Review of Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, by Edward F. Mooney.” Thoreau Society Bulletin (Spring 2017).

Conferences

Keynote

  • “Dickinson’s Interiors: A Theory of Authorship in the Todd Correspondence,” Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. Aug 11-12, 2017.

Panelist

  • “Bridging Cultures: The Power of Multilingualism in a Globalized World.” European Day of Languages Panel Discussion. Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University. September 26, 2024.
  • “Beyond Listening and Speaking: The Role of Writing in Fostering Critical Thought in Literature Students.” Nurturing Critical Minds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Education and the Workforce. Vilnius University. June 27-28, 2024.
  • “Charles Brockden Brown’s Magazines and the Birth of Critical Geography.” British Association for American Studies Annual Meeting. April 6-11, 2021.
  • “Emily Dickinson’s Narrative Cartography,” MLA Convention. New York City. Jan 4-7, 2018.
  • “Are not those your / Countrymen?”: Dickinson’s Defense in the Higginson Letters," Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting. Paris. June 24-26, 2016.
  • “‘Tumultuous Privacy’: Spatial Poetics and Dickinson’s Late Epistolarity.” Dickinson Institute Workshop. Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. Aug 7, 2015.
  • “Invocations of America: Space, Place, and Imagination in James Boswell’s Hebrides Journal.” PAMLA Annual Convention. University of California, Riverside. Nov 1-2, 2014.
  • “Post- and Trans-Human Bodies.” Panel respondent. Southland/Friends of English Graduate Conference, UCLA. May 30, 2014.

Teaching

Master’s (Vilnius University)

2022-present - Authorship and “the Author Question” in Literary Discourse
2021 - Graduate Research Paper Writing (with Linara Bartkuvienė and Rūta Šlapkauskaitė)

Bachelor’s (Vilnius University)

2019–present - Modern English III/IV: Text Analysis
2019–present - 19th-Century American Poetry & Society
2019–present - Literature of American Travel
2019–present - American Short Story
2020–2021 - History of English Literature

Bachelor’s (UCLA)

2016–2017 - English 4W: Critical Reading and Writing “Literatures of Death and Loss”
2013–2014 - English 4W: Critical Reading and Writing “Birds, Nature, and Human Selfhood”


Exam Committees

PhD (Vilnius University)

2024 - Radvilė Musteikytė, Ecocritical Studies of Literature in English. June 24.
2023 - Mikael Schultz Rasmussen, Ecocritical Studies of Literature in English. June 30.
2022 - Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo, English Literature from Modernism to Post-Postmodernism. Oct 7.
2022 - Andrius Ledas, The New Materialism in Literary Studies. Sept 17.
2021 - Andrius Ledas, English Literature from Modernism to Post-Postmodernism. Oct 4.


Thesis Supervision

Master’s (Vilnius University)

2022–2023 - Joseph Tobin
2021–2022 - Kornelija Viečaitė

Bachelor’s (Vilnius University)

2021–2022 - Žemyna Šliauterytė
2020–2021 - Lukas Kudoba; Emilija Šerkšnaitė
2019–2020 - Liora Medveckaja


Academic Service & Affiliations

Committees

2022–present - Master’s Thesis Defense Committee, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
2021–present - English MA Program Self-Assessment Committee, Vilnius University
2020–present - Bachelor’s Thesis Defense Committee, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
2016–2017 - Student Affairs Advisor, Scholarship Resource Center, UCLA
2014–2015 - Mellon Graduate Pedagogy Working Group, UCLA
2014–2015 - First-Year Student Mentorship Program Mentor, UCLA
2013–2014 - English Graduate Union President, UCLA
2013–2014 - English Library Committee, UCLA

Reviewer

Literatūra (Vilnius University Press)

Affiliations

British Association for American Studies
British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Emily Dickinson International Society
European Society for the Study of English
Modern Language Association