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Education
Ph.D. in English, University of California-Berkeley, expected May 2010. Advisor: Professor John Bishop.
M.F.A. in English, University of Iowa, May 2002. Concentration in fiction writing. Thesis: “Father and Mother: Two Novellas.” Advisor: Professor Ethan Canin.
B.A. in English, Stanford University, June 2000. Concentration in creative writing. Honors thesis: “The Loveliest Mummer: A Narrative Analysis of Ulysses.” Advisor: Professor Brett Bourbon.
Areas of Specialization
Modernism and the twentieth century; narrative and the novel; philosophy and literature; fiction writing.
Honors and Awards
Barbara H. Kurtz Award for outstanding record on completion of coursework, University of California-Berkeley, 2007.
Academic Progress Award, University of California-Berkeley, 2007.
Joel Fineman Prize for best essay by a first-year English graduate student, University of California-Berkeley, 2005.
Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2002.
Departmental honors, University of Iowa, 2002.
Iowa Arts Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2000.
Departmental honors, Stanford University, 2000.
Graduation with distinction, Stanford University, 2000.
President’s Scholar, Stanford University, 1996.
Teaching Experience
Instructor, English R1B: "In and Out of Realism," University of California-Berkeley, fall 2007.
Teaching Assistant, English 45C: Literature in English, Mid-19th Through 20th Century, University of California-Berkeley, fall 2006.
Reader, English 125E: The Contemporary Novel, University of California-Berkeley, fall 2005.
Instructor, English 8C:097: Fiction Writing, University of Iowa, summer 2001.
Publications and Presentations
“Allegory and Tyranny in Nabokov: Bend Sinister to
Lolita.”
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900,
University of Louisville, February 2007.
“Let the Day Perish” (fiction). The Southern Review,
summer 2004.
Professional Activity
Coordinator, James Joyce Working Group, 2006-2007.
Webmaster, English Graduate Association, 2006-2007.
Languages
Spanish; reading knowledge of German, French, Greek.
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