Education

PhD in english, Literature and Cultural Theory (2022)

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Dissertation: Ghost Lands: Spirit, Space, and the Construction of Cosmology in Native Ghost Stories

MA in English (2017)

Western Kentucky University
Thesis: Strange Things Keep Happening to Me: Postcolonial Identity and Henry James’s Ghosts

BA in English, minor in music (2015)

Austin Peay State University

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of Writing and Humanities (2024-present)

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

director, lead teaching artist, founding member (2018-present)

Milwaukee Queer Writing Project at Woodland Pattern Book Center

Pre-College Services Coordinator (2022-present)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee TRIO and Pre-College Programs

Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Honors (2023-24)

Marquette University

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing and Humanities (2021-2024)

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

Adjunct Professor of English (2023-2023)

Marquette University

Graduate Teaching Instructor of English (2017-2021)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Graduate Teaching Instructor of English (2015-17)

Western Kentucky University

Graduate Assistant Faculty Liaison (2015-17)

Western Kentucky University Division of Extended Learning and Outreach

High school English and music instructor (2014)

Advantage Learning Center

EDITORIAL Experience

Editor-in-chief, Layout designer, publicity and outreach manager (2024-present)

R2: The River Rat

associate Editor, poetry editor, assistant fiction editor (2018-2020)

Cream City Review

Graphic Designer (2018-2019)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Creative Writing Department

Staff interviewer (2015-2017)

Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal

Manuscript submissions editor (2015-2017)

Steel Toe Books

Layout Designer, submissions Editor (2013-2015)

Red Mud Review

Managing editor, chief copy editor, features editor (2012-2015)

The All State

Marketing and Publicity manager (2011-2015)

Tennessee Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts

Nonfiction submissions Editor (2014)

Zone 3

Publications

Poetry

“Love Song.” Foglifter, forthcoming.

“Plagal Cadence.” Foglifter, forthcoming.

“Prelude.” Foglifter, forthcoming.

“Repeat, First and Second Ending.” Foglifter, forthcoming.

“With Devotion.” Foglifter, forthcoming.

“The City Where I Met You Viewed from the Air.” The Cortland Review, forthcoming 2025.

“Ars Poetica for West Tennessee.” Wildness Journal, vol. 39, 20 Sept. 2025, https://readwildness.com/39/scruton-tennessee.

Polyphony for Hallucinated Voices. Ben Tinterstices Editions, 2025.

“Illuminated Manuscript.” Screen Door Review, vol. 20, 21 June 2025, https://www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/.

“Queer Ode for Molly Dyeing Fabrics in the Park.” Screen Door Review, vol. 20, 21 June 2025, https://www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/.

“Self-Portrait as Tarot Devil.” Screen Door Review, vol. 20, 21 June 2025, https://www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/.

“Trans Tarot Reading.” Pleiades, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2024, pp. 281.

“Letter for __________.” Carve Magazine, Fall 2023, pp. 61.

“In the Femme Future.” The Mantle, no. 21, 23 Dec. 2023, https://themantlepoetry.com/issue-21/cj-scruton/.

Craig, Clinton J., and CJ Scruton. “We Could Do Something We Have Yet Figured Out.” The Hunger, no. 13, 15 Dec. 2023, https://www.thehungerjournal.com/we-could-do-something.

“Counterpoint for Prophetic Voices.” The Account, 31 Oct. 2023, https://theaccountmagazine.com/article/scruton23/.

“I Pretend My Dreams Were about You Again.” Nashville Review, vol. 41, 20 Oct. 2023, https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/18749.

“Across the Country We Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” The Cincinnati Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023, pp. 183-84.

“Ars Poetica as Escape Route.” The Cincinnati Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023, pp. 185-86.

“My Camera Roll Shows Trees that Aren’t Standing Anymore.” Wildness Journal, no. 31, 28 Aug. 2023, https://readwildness.com/31/scruton-trees.

“No Nightmares during the Tornado Warning.” Leavings Literary Magazine, no. 4, 16 June 2023, https://www.leavingslitmag.com/4/no-nightmares-during-the-tornado-warning.

“On the Way to Church Camp You Miss the Border between Nightmare and Memory.” Leavings Literary Magazine, no. 4, 16 June 2023, https://www.leavingslitmag.com/4/on-the-way-to-church-camp-you-miss-the-border-between-nightmare-and-memory.

“Sex, with Sensory Overload.” Peatsmoke Journal, 15 Oct. 2022, https://www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2022-poetry/cj-scruton.

“Séance.” Quarterly West, vol. 106, 1 July 2022, https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-106-scruton.

“In Transfemme Quarantine.” Shenandoah, vol. 71, no. 2, 20 June 2022, https://shenandoahliterary.org/712/in-transfemme-quarantine/.

“Self-Portraits in Jurassic Park.” Shenandoah, vol. 71, no. 2, 20 June 2022, https://shenandoahliterary.org/712/self-portraits-in-jurassic-park/.

“Harbingers.” CutBank Literary Journal, 12 Nov. 2021, http://www.cutbankonline.org/all-accounts/2021/10/all-accounts-and-mixture-harbingers-by-cj-scruton.

“Four-Step Guide to Being the Final Girl.” The Lumiere Review, 27 Sept. 2021, https://lumierereview.com/cj-scruton.

“Diagenesis.” New South, 24 July 2020, https://newsouthjournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/scruton-two-poems.docx.pdf.

“A Mosasaur Hums Softly in Her Sleep.” New South, 24 July 2020, https://newsouthjournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/cj-scruton-1.pdf.

“Town Called Fireflies.” Barrow Street, 2020, pp. 98.

“Coonhound.” 30 Poets, 30 Poems: A Clarksville Anthology, edited by Barry Kitterman, Clarksville/Montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council, 2020, pp. 54.

“Winter Solstice, 2019.” The Hunger, 1 June 2020, http://www.thehungerjournal.com/winter-solstice-2019-cj-scruton.

“Ghost Keeps Trying to Sing Love Songs.” Foglifter, vol. 5, no. 1, 2020, pp. 37-38.

“Morphology 6.” The Indianapolis Review, 1 May 2020, http://www.theindianapolisreview.com/morphology-6/.

“Morphology 3.” Juked, vol. 17, 2020, pp. 42-44.

“Ghost Contemplates the Shape They Found on the X-Ray.” The Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2020, pp. 89.

“On the Long Way Walking.” Poetry South, vol. 11, 2019, pp. 40.

“Storm Season, Tennessee.” Poetry South, vol. 11, 2019, pp. 41.

“Pareidolia,” “Ghost Sings a Hymn,” “Ghost Tries to Remember the Hymn’s Middle Voices,” “TV Exorcism,” and “Ghost Is Disturbed to Find the Walls Impermeable.” Heavy Feather Review, 21 Aug. 2019, http://www.heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/08/21/scruton/.

“Morphology 2.” Homology Lit, 1 Aug. 2019, http://www.homologylit.com/issue-three/.

“Ghost Hums as They Think of Love” and “Morphology 1.” Puerto del Sol, 5 July 2019, http://www.puertodelsol.org/single-post/2019/07/05/Two-Poems.

“Moon Men.” Quarter after Eight, vol. 25, 2019, pp. 86-87.

“Planting.” North American Review, vol. 304, no. 1, 2019, pp. 44.

“A Supermarket in Kentucky.” Harpur Palate, vol. 17, no. 2, 2018, pp. 103-04.

“Tarot Reading at the End of the World.” The Hunger, 15 May 2018, http://www.thehungerjournal.com/issue-2.

“Midnight Feature.” apt, 9 Apr. 2018.

“They Still Find Bones from Time to Time.” Anastamos, no. 2, 2017, pp. 70.

“We Will Remember Bees.” Stoneboat Literary Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2017, pp. 90.

“Stone Tape Theory.” CutBank Literary Journal, 29 Sept. 2017.

“Picking up Pecans.” Salamander, vol. 43, 2017, pp. 153.

“Brushfire.” The Meadow, vol. 7, 2017, pp. 44.

“Huldufólk.” Whiskey Island, vol. 68, 2016, pp. 42-43.

“Tree Branch Elegies” and “Mercy.” Fourth and Sycamore, 12 July 2016.

“Divining” and “Coupling.” Superstition Review, 29 Apr. 2016, http://www.superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue17.

“Five Vignettes from Boystown, Chicago.” Dewpoint, vol. 6, 2016, 54-56.

“Haunt.” Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, 17 Jan. 2016.

“Asheboro, N.C.” Appalachian Heritage, vol. 43, no. 4, 2015, pp. 82.

“Engulf.” Off the Coast, vol. 21, no. 3, 2015, pp. 66.

“Sprout.” Lines + Stars, 5 Aug. 2015, http://www.linesandstars.com/category/summer-fall-2015/.

“Chaff” and “Suspended.” Gravel, 1 June 2015.

“Pit.” New Mexico Review, 15 May 2015, nmreview.nmhu.edu/pit/.

Creative Nonfiction

“Grave.” SmokeLong Quarterly, forthcoming 2025.

“All I Think of Is What I Look Like in Your Dreams.” Autofocus, 18 Sept. 2023, https://www.autofocuslit.com/mag/in-your-dreams.

“You’re in Love.” Shenandoah: The Peak, 1 Jan. 2023, https://shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/youre-in-love/.

“How to Read Narcissus Flowers.” North American Review Blog, 4 Feb. 2019, http://www.northamericanreview.org/open-space/.

PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION, AND OTHER EXHIBITED WORK

Scruton, CJ, and Nicholas Andre Thompson. “Polyphony for Hallucinated Voices.” Constant Practice, 27 Sept. 2025-20 Nov. 2025, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin.

“confessional iii (lake michigan).” This Is Where I’m Coming From: And I Will Tell You Mine, 14 June 2025-2 Nov. 2025, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin.

“In Transfemme Quarantine.” Word Wall / Pared Palabras, permanent installation, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin.

“confessional i (new summer, putting on makeup).” Pay It No Mind, 13 June 2025-4 July 2025, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin.

“confessional ii (sleepless, writing in circles).” Pay It No Mind, 13 June 2025-4 July 2025, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin.

“confessional iv (wildfire season, cooking while my love sleeps in the other room).” Pay It No Mind, 13 June 2025-4 July 2025, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin.

“In Transfemme Quarantine.” Pay It No Mind, 13 June 2025-4 July 2025, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin.

Other Prose Writing

“Fischberger’s Variety.” Riverwest Radio Ghost Walk Zine, edited by Jill Capicchioni, Riverwest Radio, 2024, pp. 16-17.

“Account: Gaps, Transition, and the Full Story.” The Account, 31 Oct. 2023, https://theaccountmagazine.com/article/scruton23/.

“Prompt #34: Queers in Love at the End of the World.” Woodland Pattern Book Center Prompts + Projects, 11 Apr. 2021, http://www.woodlandpattern.org/project/queers-in-love-at-the-end-of-the-world.

“A Letter from the Editor.” Cream City Review, vol. 44, no. 2, 2020, pp. 6-7.

Ben-Oni, Rosebud, et al. “On (Not) Mourning Our Icons.” The Kenyon Review Blog, 29 Oct. 2019, http://www.kenyonreview.org/2019/10/on-not-mourning-our-icons/.

“Interview with Erin Slaughter.” Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, 21 Jan. 2017.

“Interview with Patricia Colleen Murphy.” Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, 16 Oct. 2016.

“Interview with Amy Wright.” Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, 14 July 2016.

“Interview with Loma.” Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, 11 Apr. 2016.

“Interview with Amy Pickworth.” Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, 17 Jan. 2016.

Scholarship and Other Academic Writing

Co-Editor, with Monika Elbert. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review: Special Issue on Hawthorne and the Environment, vol. 49, no. 1, 2023.

Elbert, Monika, and CJ Scruton. “Introduction: Hawthorne and Nature.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 49, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-6. Doi: 10.5325/nathhawtrevi.49.1.0001.

“‘Howling and Whistling in off the Sea’: Water, Supernatural Environments, and the Movement of Human and Nonhuman Souls in Conor McPherson’s The Weir.” Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic, vol. 3, 2022, pp. 69-92. Url: https://gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-iii/.

“‘A Kind of Privilege to Haunt’: Settler Structures, Land-Based Knowledge, and the Agency of the (Super)Natural in The House of the Seven Gables.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 48, no. 1, 2022, pp. 28-49. Doi: 10.5325/nathhawtrevi.48.1.0028.

“Along the Wayside: Notes from the International Poe and Hawthorne Conference in Kyoto, Japan, June 21-24, 2018.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 45, no. 1, 2019, pp. 93-96. Doi: 10.5325/nathhawtrevi.45.1.0093.

“‘From the Furthest Depths’: Poe’s ‘Perverse’ in Moby-Dick.” Kentucky Philological Review, vol. 29, 2017, pp. 27-36.

PERFORMANCES AND Invited Talks

POETRY AND MUSIC PERFORMANCES

Constant Practice: An Evening of Performances, 23 Oct. 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Music and Poetry Performance.

Pay It No Mind: A Kiki, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 28 June 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Music and Poetry Performance.

Manhole for the New Millenium Launch Reading, 2 May 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Emeritus Reading, 22 Oct. 2024. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

General Readings with General Things Press, 27 July 2024. Chicago, IL. Poetry Performance.

National Poetry Month Celebration with Saint John’s on the Lake, 16 Apr. 2024. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Evening with Spiral Editions, 7 Apr. 2024. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Here & Now: Work from MIAD Faculty, 25 Oct. 2023. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Pitymilk Press Reading at The Bell Tower, 6 Aug. 2023. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Gala Benefit for Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 3 Nov. 2022. Milwaukee, WI. Music Performance and Poetry Performance.

LitMarquette, 27 Sept. 2022. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Poetry in the Park, 14 Sept. 2021. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

The Hunger Halloween Reading, 29 Oct. 2020. Bowling Green, OH. Poetry Performance.

NEA Big Read Kick-Off, Woodland Pattern, 7 May 2020. Milwaukee, WI. Video Art Performance and Poetry Performance.

Reading at Woodland Pattern, 20 Mar. 2020. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.*

Juneau Park Poetry Festival, 20 July 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Vegetarian Alcoholic Press: Lit Fam IX, 10 July 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Poetry in the Park, 11 June 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

APSU Creative Writing Spring Reading, 30 Mar. 2015. Clarksville, TN. Poetry Performance.

Bread and Words, 24 Nov. 2014. Clarksville, TN. Poetry Performance.

ARTS Events hosted

R2: The River Rat Launch Celebration and Reading, 2 Dec. 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Multi-Genre Performance and Reading.

Constant Practice: An Evening of Performances, 23 Oct. 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Multi-Genre Performance and Reading.

R2: The River Rat Launch Celebration and Reading, 21 Apr. 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Multi-Genre Performance and Reading.

R2: The River Rat Launch Celebration and Reading, 3 Dec. 2024. Milwaukee, WI. Multi-Genre Performance and Reading.

Milwaukee Queer Writing Project Community Workshop at Woodland Pattern, 20 Apr. 2023. Milwaukee, WI. Arts Workshop.

Milwaukee Queer Writing Project Community Workshop at Woodland Pattern, 16 Feb. 2023. Milwaukee, WI. Arts Workshop.

Milwaukee Queer Writing Project Workshop with Roya Marsh, 12 May 2021. Milwaukee, WI. Arts Workshop.

LGBTQ+ Hour, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, 30 Jan. 2021. Milwaukee, WI. Video Art Performance and Poetry Performance.

NEA Big Read: Stephanie Burt Reading, Woodland Pattern, 7 June 2020. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Cream City Review Live!, Edith S. Hefter Conference Center, 18 Apr. 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Multi-Genre Performance and Reading.

United We Read, Riverwest Public House, 18 Oct. 2018. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Performance.

Milwaukee Celtic Society Bloomsday Celebration, 16 June 2018. Milwaukee, WI. Literary Reading and Lecture.

Still in Motion, Austin Peay State University, 23 Apr. 2015. Clarksville, TN. Music Performance and Dance Performance.

An Evening with Red Mud Review, Downtown Artists Cooperative, 26 Feb. 2015. Clarksville, TN. Poetry Performance.

LECTURES AND OTHER APPEARANCES

“Ghost Walk Spooky Talk.” Riverwest Radio, 24 Oct. 2024. Radio Interview.

“Folklore, Gender, and Reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Honors 200: The Shaping of the Modern Mind, 17-18 Mar. 2021. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Class Lecture.

“Folklore, Gender, and Reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Honors 200: The Shaping of the Modern Mind, 26-27 Oct. 2020. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Class Lecture.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee English Women-Identified Teachers Panel. 19 Sept. 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Panel Discussion.

*Cancelled due to health concerns.

fELLOWSHIPS AND Awards

Trio Award Finalist, Trio House Press (2025)

Frontier Debut Chapbook Prize Finalist, Frontier Poetry (2025)

Pushcart Prize Nomination (2024)

• • Nominated work: “Trans Tarot Reading,” originally published in Pleiades

Best New Poets Nomination (2024)

• • Nominated work: “My Camera Roll Shows Trees that Aren’t Standing Anymore,” originally published in wildness

Best New Poets Nomination (2024)

• • Nominated work: “Counterpoint for Prophetic Voices,” originally published in The Account

Best of the Net Nomination in Poetry (2023)

• • Nominated work: “Sex, with Sensory Overload,” originally published in Peatsmoke Journal

Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize Finalist, Willow Springs Books (2022)

Pamet River Prize Semifinalist, YesYes Books (2022)

Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2021)

Best of the Net Nomination in Poetry (2020)

• • Nominated work: “Winter Solstice, 2019,” originally published in The Hunger

Susan Tane Travel Grant, Poe Studies Association (2018)

Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2017)

Potter College of Arts and Letters Outstanding M.A. Student in English, Western Kentucky University (2017)

Wood Award, Western Kentucky University Department of English (2017)

Grenouille d’or first prize in Francophone literature scholarship, Austin Peay State University (2015)

Rachel Maddux Baker Creative Writing Award, Austin Peay State University (2015)

Summer Research Fellowship, Tennessee Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (2015)

Robert Frost Place Conference on Poetry Fellowship, Austin Peay State University Creative Writing Department (2015)

President’s Emerging Leaders Program Study Abroad Scholarship, Austin Peay State University (2013)

University Courses Taught

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

WRTG 120: Processes of Inquiry

HUMT 121: Introduction to Humanities: Culture, Intersectionality, and Humanity

WRTG 200: Critical Conversations

HUMT 340: Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies

HUMT 340: Native Narrative: Land, Nature, and Decolonization

HUMT 340: Queer Theory and Narrative

HUMT/WRTG 340: Strategies for Poetics

HUMT/WRTG 340: Queer and Trans Life-Writing

HUMT/WRTG 340: Writing Apocalypse and Dystopia

HUMT/WRTG 340: Writing Nature: Poetics and Ecology

HUMT/WRTG 340: Writing Horror

HUMT 380: Service Learning: Theory and Practice of Social Change

WRTG 400: Senior Seminar: Writing Horror

Marquette University

ENGL 1001: Foundations in Rhetoric

HOPR 1955H: Honors First-Year Seminar: Culture, Fear, and How Monsters Get Made

ENGL 2012: Well Versed: Poetry Appreciation

ENGL 3250: Life-Writing, Creativity, and Community

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

ENG 101: Introduction to College Writing

ENG 102: College Writing and Research

ENG 215: Introduction to English Studies

Western Kentucky University

ENG 100: Introduction to College Writing

Conference Presentations

Scruton, CJ, et al. “Marquette Writes: Creative Writing as Research Practice.” Klingler College of Arts & Sciences Research Poster Session, 8 Nov. 2022, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Poster Presentation.

“Jordan Peele’s Us and the (Il)Legibility of Political Collectives.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 4-7 Nov. 2021, Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Milwaukee, WI. Presentation.

“Nonhuman Narration and the Ghostly Conversations of LeAnne Howe.” Native American Literature Symposium, 4 Apr. 2020, Mystic Lake Hotel and Casino, Prior Lake, MN. Presentation.*

“Ghosts and the Undead as Living Landscape.” Native American Literature Symposium, 2 Apr. 2020, Mystic Lake Hotel and Casino, Prior Lake, MN. Presentation.*

Cho, Su, and CJ Scruton. “Disruptive Disclosures of Identity and a Pedagogy of Non-Attunement.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 28 Mar. 2020, Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Presentation.*

“‘Desire’s Last Stand’: Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan and the Queer, Feminist Erotics of Process.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 15 Nov. 2019, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL. Presentation.

“Have You Ever Seen a (Straight) Ghost?: Erotohistoriography, Technology, and the Queer Potential of Paranormal Investigations.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 15 Feb. 2019, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Presentation.

“‘Le pays des Montagnais, quelque illusion’: Translingual Narration and the Native Landscapes of Yves Thériault’s Ashini.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 16 Nov. 2018, Kansas City Marriott Downtown, Kansas City, MO. Presentation.

“The ‘Not-Ghosts’ of Men and Race in Poe and Hawthorne.” International Poe and Hawthorne Conference, 22 June 2018, Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel, Kyoto, Japan. Presentation.

“Student Perception of Personal Disclosure.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University First-Year English Graduate Pedagogy Conference, 5 Dec. 2017, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Poster Presentation.

“Forever Wandering: Ghosts and the Pan-nationalist Vision of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 10 Nov. 2017, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, OH. Presentation.

“‘Dépossédé du monde’: Possession and North American Identity in Anne Hébert’s ‘le Torrent.’” American Literature Association Symposium on the American Short Story, 21 Oct. 2016, Hyatt Regency Savannah, Savannah, GA. Presentation.

“‘From the Furthest Depths’: Poe’s ‘Perverse’ in Moby-Dick.” Kentucky Philological Association Annual Conference, 7 Mar. 2016, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. Presentation.

“Why I Took My Students to Bonnaroo: Reaching Readers and Teaching Journalism with Arts Events.” Associated College Press National College Media Convention, 1 Nov. 2014, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA. Presentation.

Panels moderated

“Eco-Criticism.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 4 Nov. 2021, Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Milwaukee, WI.

“Modes of Storytelling I.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 4 Nov. 2021, Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Milwaukee, WI.

“Reimagining the Gothic.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 16 Nov. 2018, Kansas City Marriott Downtown, Kansas City, MO.

Western Kentucky University English 100 and 200 Conference, 29 Apr. 2016, WKU, Bowling Green, KY.

“Multivalent Voices.” Western Kentucky University Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture, 20 Nov. 2015, WKU, Bowling Green, KY.

*Cancelled due to health concerns.