Ph.D. Students

Justin specializes in print culture, book history, and textual studies – especially as these fields apply to early modern England and early colonial America. While at Boston College, Justin aims to contribute to emerging conversations surrounding the ever-increasing demands for archival democratization by practicing primary source-grounded, faithfully-researched literary and textual criticism. In doing so, he hopes to elucidate individual histories within larger, collective narratives about early modern England and early colonial America to provide crucial, tangible contexts for contemporary discussion and debate in his field.

In addition to his studies in the English Department, Justin is Doctoral Fellow at the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy. There, his research explores the extent to which the printing press – as the preeminent tool for media dissemination – played an important role in the fostering and hindering of the replication of early modern English politics, aesthetics, and economic practices in the early American colonial world.

Justin holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Augusta University and a master’s degree in English from Loyola University Chicago. When he is not reading or writing for his courses or research, Justin is working as an editorial assistant for a number of scientific and economic journals.