education

• 2020 | Master’s English | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
  • Thesis: "Queer YA Graphic Novels and Queer/Crip Embodiment Through Autocritography."
  • Chair: Dr. Marsha Bryant
• 2018 - Present | PhD English | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
  • Dissertation: "A Prayer for Something Better": Trans Worldmaking in Comics/Zines
  • Chair: Dr. Margaret Galvan
• Oct. 2017 | Writing Creative Nonfiction with Evelyn Hampton | Frequency Writers | Providence, RI
• 2011 - 2015 | B.F.A. Illustration + Creative Writing Minor | Moore College of Art and Design | Philadelphia, PA
• July 2012 | Design + Architecture Summer Semester | Acadia University | Rome, Italy

publications

artistic

• See comics for comics publications.

academic

• See writing for academic publications.

research & presentations

• Dec. 2023 - present | Drawing a Dialogue Presents: Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene - interview series
• Oct. 2022 | ““This is the kind of society I’m looking for, anyway”: Krysta Morningstarr & The Radical Potential of Prisoner’s Comics,“ Conference presentation | 9th Quarry Farms Symposium: Abolition Studies | The Center for Mark Twain Studies
• May 2022 | “Mutual Aid Pedagogy as Accessible Teaching,” Roundtable presentation with F. Stewart-Taylor, Nicole Green and Cara Wieland | Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
• Dec. 2020 | “Building Collaborative Spaces: Learning from Crip Communities,” Digital roundtable, co-organizer and moderator | Panelists Ashanti Forson and Sky Cubacub | Constructing Communities: Exploring Access through Education & Art | University of Florida
• Nov. 2020 | “Nuts and Bolts: Writing,” Digital roundtable with Delta Omar and Jarod Roselló
• June 2020 | “Nuts and Bolts: Penciling,” Digital roundtable with Mar Julia and Estrella Vega | Radiator Comics
• May 2020 | “Nuts and Bolts: Story Development,” Digital roundtable with Jessica Garcia, Jayro Lantigua, and Jarod Roselló | Radiator Comics
• Feb. 2020 | “Critical Pedagogy + Disability Justice,” Roundtable presentation with F. Stewart-Taylor and Cara Wieland | Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy Conference | University of Florida
• June 2019 | “Community Repair Through Queer Prisoners’ Comics-Making: ABO Comix as Queer Utopia,” Conference presentation | Comics & Politics: The 2nd Annual Conference of the Comic Studies Society | Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
• Apr. 2019 | ImageText Comics Reading, organizer and presenter | UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: ImageText in Motion | with F. Stewart Taylor & Tom Hart | University of Florida
• Feb. 2019 | “Logical Thinking Through Collaborative Comic-Making,” Conference presentation | Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy Conference | University of Florida
• Dec. 2018 | “What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?” Moderator, Roundtable with Carta Monir and Sunmi | Comic Arts Los Angeles
• July 2018 | Guest lecturer at the University of the Arts | collaboration with Cathy G. Johnson
• 2017 - present | Drawing a Dialogue - scholarly podcast | collaboration with Cathy G. Johnson

teaching

• University Writing Program, Mentorship Fellowship for ENC1101 (one section, Fall 2021)
• ENC2210, Technical Communication (one section, Summer 2021)
• ENC1145, Writing About: HIV/AIDS Art and Literature (one section, juried course proposal, Spring 2021)
• ENG2300, Film Analysis (one section, Spring 2020, Fall 2021)
• ENG3246, Professional Communication for Engineers (one section, Spring 2020)
• AML2410, Issues in American Literature: Life Writing in the Margins (one section, juried course proposal, Fall 2019)
• ENC1102, Rhetoric and Academic Research (one section, Summer 2019, Spring 2019)
• ENC1101, Introduction to College Writing (one section, Fall 2018)

grants & awards

• Swann Fellowship, Library of Congress, Jan. 2025
• University Writing Program Mentoring Fellowship, 2021-2022.
• Carol L. Tilley Travel Grant for presentation at the 2nd Annual Comic Studies Conference, June 2019.
• Graduate Student Council Grant for presentation at the 2nd Annual Comic Studies Conference, June 2019.
• PRISM Award, Best Short Form Comic for See Me, July 2019.
• Grinter Fellowship for study at the University of Florida, August 2018.
• PRISM Award Nomination, Best Short Form Comic for Flux, July 2017.
• Small but Might Arts Grant for Woven, 2018.
• Freida M. Fehrenbacher International Travel Fellowship for travel to Seoul, Korea, 2014.
• Penny Fox Internship Fellowship for internship with Boom! Studios, 2014.