I am a PhD Candidate in English at 91抖阴 Berkeley, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies. This year, I am reipient of the Una Fellowship, awarded to an outstanding woman graduate student in the field of history, at the Townsend Center for the Humanities. In 2024, I received the Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship from Berkeley's Program in Critical Theory.
My research聽focuses on the moral problems and panics through which transsexuality has become a fulcrum in global politics. My dissertation project,聽Transsexual Sympathy: A Rhetoric of Transition,聽offers an antitransphobic history of British liberalism, moral psychology, and sentimental literature, with a focus on fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. An article drawn from my dissertation, "Our Androgynes, Ourselves: The Trans Allegory in Coleridge's聽Aids to Reflection," appeared in聽Studies in Romanticism.聽A polemic against the prevailing assumptions of trans historiography, "The Unhistorical School of Trans History," is聽forthcoming from聽SEL this summer.
Additional research interests include feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis, and the history of science.
