I earned my Ph.D. in Communication, Information, & Media from Rutgers University in 2024. Prior to Rutgers, I got my master's degree in English from Georgetown University, as well as a B.A. in English and B.S. in Secondary English and Communication Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Before returning to academia for graduate-level education, I gained experience as a high school English teacher in central Pennsylvania.

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Beginning in Fall 2025, I will be a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University, where I will be teaching undergraduate-level courses and continuing to develop my ongoing research.

 

Most recently, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Library & Information Science at Rutgers University where I united my research interests in social media, political rhetoric, news, and identity to complete a wide variety of mixed-methods projects. Further, I am seeking to expand my dissertation work on the weaponization of child-centered rhetorics in online political speech. My research has been published in venues such as New Media & Society and The International Journal of Communication. 

 

I am an alumna of the Eagleton Institute of Politics Graduate Fellowship Program, and I have won both research and teaching awards.

 

When I am not pursuing my professional goals, I love to garden,

cook, read for pleasure, and snuggle with my dog, Penelope.