Education

M.A., English and Comparative Literature – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2026)

• Teaching Fellowship
• Graduate Certificate in Literature, Medicine, and Culture, 2024
• Education Fellow Certificate, 2021
• Field: Twentieth-Century American Literature
• Focus: Health Humanities / Trauma Studies
• MA Thesis Title: “Countdown to zero”: Systemic Racial Oppression and Black Social Death in Wideman’s “Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies”
• MA Thesis Director: Prof. Jane F. Thrailkill

M.A., English Literature – DePaul University, Chicago, IL (2010)

• Graduate Assistantship
• Graduated with distinction
• Cumulative GPA: 3.975 / 4.0

B.A., English – Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL (2008)

• Minor: Creative Writing
• Donald C. Harrison Honors Program Scholar
• Thomas E. Jernigan Honors Scholar
• Graduated magna cum laude
• Cumulative GPA: 3.859 / 4.0
• Major GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

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