Education:

BA, History, University of Denver, 2007

• Thesis: “Losing Picture Perfect: Physiognomy and the Threat of the Foreign Other in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes”

Comparative Politics and Human Rights, Joseph Korbel Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 2009

Research Interests:

I am interested the various conceptions of British/Irish identity among the lower, working, and middle classes at the apex of Imperial power in the United Kingdom. I primarily study cultural and literary history to examine the creation of British identity through narrative, and the ways in which the representation and perception of that identity changed in relation to threats felt from outside during the course of the 19th century.

  
Awards and Fellowships:

Irish Studies Fellowship, Boston College

Conference Presentations:

"The Villain as Other: Foreign Criminals in Victorian Literature," Heroes and Villains Conference, Oxford, September 2011.

"Pseudoscience and the Danger of the Foreign Other in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes" University of Colorado-Boulder, September 2010.

"Dickens and the City: The personification and vibrancy of 19th Century London" Poster Presentation, Portrait of the City Conference, Dublin, December 2010.