May 2018
University of Iowa, Doctor of Philosophy in English
Specializations: 19th c. British literature; animal studies; bibliography/textual studies; book history; digital humanities
Other credentials: University of Iowa Center for the Book graduate certificate
Dissertation: From Sentiment to Sagacity to Subjectivity: Dogs and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Director: Teresa Mangum)
May 2011
University of Virginia, Master of Arts in English
Specialization: Victorian literature
MA thesis: “‘Even a Dog Feels a Difference’: Dogs and Sympathy in Eliot and Dickens”
May 2009
Miami University, Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, with Honors in English
Majors: English Literature & Creative Writing
Other specialization: Spanish