Longer version of my CV is available as a Word Document.
EDUCATION
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, University Park, PA
- Ph.D., French and Francophone Studies (May 2015)
- M.A., French and Francophone Studies (May 2010)
EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Gainesville, FL
- Assistant University Librarian, European Studies (August 2015 – Present)
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, State College, PA
- Digital Scholarship Services Graduate Assistant ( August 2013 – July 2015)
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, State College, PA
- Course Instructor ( August 2008 – August 2013)
Areas of Specialization
- European languages, literatures, and cultures (Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese).
- Nineteenth and twentieth century French and Francophone literature and history
- Decadence
- Book history and print culture studies
- Digital Humanities
GRANTS AWARDED
| Number | Role | Agency | Grant Title | Dates | Total Award |
| 1 | Co-PI | CRL | Reeling in the French Antilles: digitizing newspapers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1852 to 1929 | Jul. 2022 – Jun. 2023 | $9,048 |
| 2 | Investigator | French Embassy Miami | Francophone Artists, Bandes Dessinées and Diasporic Graphics | Jan. 2021 – May 2021. | $22,681 |
| 3 | Co-PI | UF CHPS | Francophone Comics: Reimagining Contemporary Culture | Dec. 2020 – Jun. 2021. | $3,000 |
| 4 | Investigator | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Film on a Boat: Digitizing Historical Newspapers of the Caribbean | Jan. 2019 – Jun. 2023 | $434,124 |
| 5 | Co-PI | NEH | Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute | Oct. 2018 –Sept. 2020 | $212,247 |
| 6 | Investigator | UF CLAS | Just English? | May 2018 – May 2020 | $10,000 |
| 7 | Co-PI | UF Libraries | Smathers Graduate Internship in Visual Anthropology | May – Aug. 2018 | $2,500 |
| 8 | PI | UF Libraries | Digital Scholarship at UF Workshop | Jul. 2017 – Jul. 2018 | $4,907 |
| 9 | PI | UF Libraries | Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Graduate Internship | May – Jun. 2017 | $2,500 |
CONFERENCES
Select International and National Conferences
- “Power to the Librarians: Lessons Learned from Union Work.” The Association of College and Research Libraries, Virtual. March. 2023.
- “Carrying on in a Pandemic: The Case of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH).” Poster. The Association for Computers and the Humanities 2021, Virtual. Jul. 2021.
- “Generous Thinking to Meet Community Needs with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC).” Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 2021, Virtual. Jun. 2021.
- “Bringing Visual Anthropology to the Academic Library: An Analysis of Student-Generated Social Media Photographs.” The Association of College and Research Libraries, Virtual. Apr. 2021.
- “Assessing an Academic Library’s Marketing Strategies to Promote Subject Specialists: A Mixed Methods Approach.” Poster. Library Assessment Conference, Houston, TX, Dec, 2018.
- “Graduate Student Internships in an Academic Library: A Case Study at the University of Florida.” Digital Library Forum 2018, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 2018.
- “Assessing the Effectiveness of Student-Generated PR Strategies in an Academic Library.” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2018.
- “Team Up: Collaborating with Public Relations Students to Promote Library Subject Specialists.” Poster. The Association of College and Research Libraries, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.
- “Children of Decadence: The Forgotten Children’s Literature of Rémy de Gourmont.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Annual Conference (“Languages of the Book”), Paris, France. July 2016.
- “Digital Humanities and French Cultural Studies.” 40 Years of Contemporary French Civilization Conference, Baltimore, MD. Sept. 2015.
- “Mapping Decadence.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Annual Conference (“The Generation and Regeneration of Books”), Longueil/Montréal, Canada. July 2015.
- “Women’s Instructional Writings in Nineteenth-Century France: A Digital Bibliography.” Women’s History in the Digital World, Bryn Mawr College. May 2015.
- “Decadent Imaginations: The Role of Illustrations in the Books of Joris-Karl Huysmans and Marcel Schwob.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Puerto Rico (UPR). Oct. 2014 (and organizer of session on “Dénicheurs, Decadence and Other Worlds: The Image and the Fait Divers”).
- “Mapping Decadence: Visualizing Relationships between Writers and Publishers.” Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Georgia State University. Oct. 2013 (and organizer of session on “Humanities in a Digital Age: Using Digital Tools for Research and Teaching”).
- « Clarimonde : femme fatale, vampire décadente ? » Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania/Villanova University. Oct. 2011.
Select Invited Talks
- “Faire sa place à l’étranger : ces francophones qui réussissent à l’international.” Association Internationale Francophone des Bibliothécaires et Documentalistes, Dublin, Ireland. July. 2022.
- “Exploring Digital Humanities Projects.” Virtual. University of Florida. March 2021.
- “The Agile Humanities Ph.D.: Careers in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.” The Pennsylvania State University. Mar. 2019.
- “Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies Digital Humanities Institute.” National Endowment for the Humanities Project Directors Meeting, Washington, DC. March 2019. With Laurie N. Taylor.
- “Intersections between International Studies and Digital Humanities.” International Studies/Digital Humanities Symposium, University of North Florida. March 2018. With Crystal Felima, Josh Gellers, Barry Mauer, and Tiffany Earley-Spadoni.
- “The Digital Library of the Caribbean and Digital Humanities: Opportunities and Resources for Research, Teaching, and Collaboration.” Keynote for the 12th Annual Symposium Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Florida. Jan. 2018. With Leah Rosenberg and Laurie N. Taylor.
- “Humanities Ph.Ds at Work: Career Paths in Librarianship.” The University of Florida. Sept. 2017. With Jessica Aberle and Megan Daly.
- “Issues in Humanities Data Sharing.” NFAIS 2016 Humanities Roundtable. Sept. 2016. With Clifford Anderson.