A very little about me
I’m a Chicago-based editor focusing mostly on academic writing. My wheelhouse is Literature and American studies, but I do a lot of genre hopping—I’ve worked with books and journals in History, Art History, English, Mathematics, and Medicine. I’m not wedded to any particular genre or idiom, so I love projects that push me to think in new ways or research new content areas.
In college I studied English, with a particular interest in nineteenth-century American literature and the environment. I’m fascinated by the immense imaginative space the landscape of the American West occupies in our national psyche, and the countless ways artists of every ideology and every medium have claimed it as their own. I explored this a little bit in a junior fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where I completed a senior thesis entitled “Mythologizing the West: Manifest Destiny, the Transcontinentals, and the Afterlife of the Frontier in American Culture.” I later presented my research at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s annual conference in 2017.
Right now, I’m playing an unreasonable amount of disc golf and getting really into analog synthesizers so I can play along with my favorite Tears for Fears records.