PhD student, writing instructor, and theatre critic. Founder and editor of Rhetorical Review.
Education · Teaching · Publications · Theatre Reviews · Funding · Service · Presentations
Education
2023–Present
Doctor of Philosophy, Writing and Rhetoric
Graduate Assistantship
University of Utah, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
Salt Lake City, UT
2019–2022
Master of Arts, English Literature
Graduate Certificate, Rhetoric & Writing Studies
Weber State University
Ogden, UT
2006–2010
Bachelor of Arts, English and Music (Double Major)
Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i
Laʻie, HI
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 · BYU–Hawaiʻi
First-year English Literature and Composition course at BYU-Hawai’i that focuses on teaching necessary college-level reading and writing skills.
ENGL 1010 · Weber State University
First-year English Composition at Weber State University focuses on teaching necessary college-level reading, writing, and technological skills (Adobe Rush is required) by incorporating four class projects: Documentary Review, Editorial, Literature Review, and Documentary.
ENGL 2010 · Weber State University
Second-year English Composition and research course at Weber State University that teaches students how to research, write academic papers, and present their research in a digital format. In Flex, Hybrid, Asynchronous, and Face-to-face formats.
WRTG 2010 · University of Utah
Intermediate Academic Writing and Research is a writing-intensive course that satisfies the state of Utah’s required writing mandate, which is in place across all its colleges and universities. It aims to equip students with the writing skills necessary for success across the University of Utah’s various majors and departments. It provides tools for composition, argumentation, and analysis that are essential for the wide range of professional and personal scenarios you will encounter outside of the academy.
Writing 2015
Intermediate College Writing & Research focuses on combining writing and research skills. This course is co-taught by English Instructors and full-time research librarians. However, English Instructors are responsible for grading courses. Students completing this course will be able to use an academic library, the Internet, and library databases to successfully identify, access, evaluate, and use information resources to support academic success and lifelong learning. It also incorporates Adobe software.
EIL 315
This non-native English-speaking course improves academic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while studying different content areas. Emphasis is on applying skills in their concurrent university classes.
Writing 4950 · University of Utah (TA / Course Planning)
Focus on non-Western rhetoric and socio-cultural exigencies in the Borderlands. Co-taught with Dr. Romeo García for two sections in 2024, and designed and taught my own section in the Spring of 2026 with an emphasis on BIPOC and Indigenous Methodologies.
ENGL 2100: Technical Writing · Fall 2025
Professional writing in technical fields, contextualizing assignments in real-life work situations. Adaptation of writing strategies to cultural, social, and political contexts. Composing diverse workplace documents. The course may include a Service Learning component.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 with a grade of C or better
ENGL 1100: Intro to Popular U.S. Literature · Fall 2025
This course explores popular US Literature through a study of genre; focus varies by semester. Using close reading, analysis, and discussion, the course investigates complex social issues as represented in multimodal texts. Applying critical and scholarly approaches, students will develop a deeper understanding of how popular US literature and culture influence and shape one another.
Publications
Accepted: “Creative, Embodied, and Activist Approaches to Archival Research: Fostering a More Inclusive Future.” Writers: Craft and Context, 2026.
Review of Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest. Shakespeare Bulletin, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. doi.org/10.1353/shb.2023.a908002
“Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On.” Quidditas, Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association (RMMRA), vol. 44, 2023. Read the article
“Wisdom Comes with Years” (2nd place, non-fiction) and “No Longer Warm.” Kula Manu, BYU–Hawaiʻi Undergraduate Literary Journal, 2010.
Theatre Reviews: Utah Theatre Bloggers & Front Row Reviewers
- Brilliance and Breakdown: PROOF at Fellowship Theater
- The Weight of Silence: The World Premiere of THE BIG QUIET
- Wasatch Theatre Company’s ON GOLDEN POND Makes Waves
- Suspense and Social Commentary with SLAC’s Whitelisted
- Voodoo Theatre Company’s Rendition of SEMINAR is a Masterclass in Wit and Wordplay
- CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde the Musical: A Duality of Theatrical Brilliance
- Tarzan, Starring Original Broadway star Josh Strickland, Swings and Soars at Tuacahn Center for the Arts
- Broadway Bound Shucked Delights Audiences with Big Vocals at Friday’s Premiere in Salt Lake City at Pioneer Theatre Company
- The Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theatre Brings Elton John and Tim Rice’s Musical Aida and it is a Smashing Success
- UFOMT Provides an Operatic Aida That is Dramatic and Powerful
- PYGmalion Theatre Company’s Near Mint is as Wonderful as the Opening Day of Baseball Season
- Weber State’s Thought-Provoking New Musical Matchstick Girl Could Provide Theatre-goers an Alternative to Holiday Staples
- Don’t Miss Hamlet: Salt Lake City’s Unique Adaptation by Parker Theatre
- Get Ready to be Blown Away by Wasatch Theatre Company’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Good Company Theatre’s Developmental Production, To Saints and Stars, is Out of This World
- After Waiting for 25 Years, Opera Goers Thrill to Utah Opera’s The Flying Dutchman
- Get Ready to Laugh at OPPA’s Greater Tuna
- Spotlight Interview: Rising Musical Artist and Teacher, Quesley Ann Bunch Quesley in Concert! at On Pitch Performing Arts in Layton
- Don’t Miss Your Chance to See Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) at On Pitch Performing Arts in Layton, or You Will Say “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”
- Sanctuary Theatre Company Debuts New Performing Space with Hilariously Irreverent Production of Avenue Q
- Catch the Closing Weekend of OPPA’s Jekyll & Hyde Before It’s Too Late
- CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s Something Rotten! is a Hilarious and Provocative Parody of Shakespeare and Musicals
- Tuacahn Center for the Arts Produces a Magical, Imaginative, and Comical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical
- “The Sun is Gonna Shine Again” When You See Bright Star at CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
- In Layton On Pitch Performing Arts’ Little Women is Full of “Astonishing” Moments
- The Good Shepherds at the Syracuse Amphitheater Brings Light to a Pertinent Issue
- Immaculate Attention to Detail in CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s A Murder is Announced Brings Style to a Familiar Whodunit
- On Pitch Performing Arts Production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid is “Positoovity” Charming
Funding & Awards
- $500 Scholarship, HopeGiver 2025 Winter Semester, I Can. I Am. Foundation (2025)
- $1000 Scholarship, HopeGiver 2024 Fall Semester, I Can. I Am. Foundation (2024)
- $500 College of Humanities Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Utah (2024)
- $750 Travel Award, CCCC Annual Convention (2024)
- $5,000/Year Humanities ESRR Graduate Fellowship, Arts Endowment Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, University of Utah (2023-2027)
- $500 Travel Award, Rocky Mountain MLA (2022)
- David O. McKay Scholarship Recipient, Brigham Young University–Hawaiʻi (2006)—Four-Year Full Ride Tuition Scholarship (1 of 2 awarded to incoming freshmen from Hawaiʻi)
Service, Accomplishments & Certifications
- IRB Approved for my Ethnography Research Project towards my dissertation: An Exploratory Qualitative Ethnographic Research Analysis of Decolonial Themes Through Shakespeare Adaptations in Writing 4950, University of Utah, April 2024
- Received a Professional Development/Certificate of Recognition for Presenting at “Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands,” 2024.
- Served as a Utah Shakespeare Festival Words Cubed (New Play Development Program) Reader: provided feedback on ten new works, 2023-2024 & 2024-2025
- Graduate Student Representative on the COH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force at the University of Utah, 2023-2024
- Participant of the 2023 Salt Lake MLA Summer Institute for Reading and Writing Pedagogies at Access-Oriented Institutions with Dr. Darin Jensen (Salt Lake Community College, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies) and Dr. Christie Toth (University of Utah, Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies)
- Adjunct Representative for the TA Selection Committee of the Master’s English Program of Weber State University, March 2023
- Nominated for Outstanding University Teaching Awards at Weber State University, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023
- Certificate of Achievement for participating in Weber State University’s 10-week Course, Higher Education Academy, an in-depth dive into the inner workings of the history of higher-ed in the State of Utah for Staff and Faculty, December 2022
- Participant of a funded three-week National Endowment for the Humanities Transforming Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Adaptations, Education, and Diversity Summer Institute in Ogden, UT, July 2022, with Dr. Deborah Uman (Dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities at Weber State University) and Dr. Jennifer Flaherty (Professor of English at Georgia College).
- Library Student Advisory Committee: Weber State University with Wendy Holliday (Dean of Library), 2022
- Footnote for contributions to David Hartwig’s Publication “Local Interventions: Civic Engagement through Shakespearean Performance” in Shakespeare Bulletin, 2021
Conference Presentations & Panels
2026
• “Conference and Our Conversations.” (Accepted)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). March 4–7, 2026 — Cleveland, OH.
2025
• “Glimmering Nows: Writing and Storying as Un/Stable Liberatory Collaboration.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). April 9–12, 2025 — Baltimore, MD.
• Panelist, “Sustaining a Community College: TYCA West and the Professional Apprenticeship Program.”
TYCA West. June 12, 2025 — Salt Lake Community College.
Panel organized by Christie Toth (University of Utah), Darin Jensen (SLCC), and Mary Winsor (SLCC).
2024
• “A Panel Discussion on the Use of AI in the Humanities: A Call to Action to Consider the Accessibility of Aural Learning (Combined with Visual Learning).” August 23, 2024.
• “Rhetorical Sound: A Call to Action to Consider the Accessibility of Aural Learning.”
Computers & Writing Conference. June 20–22, 2024 — Fort Worth, TX.
• “A Decolonial Approach to Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theater.”
University of Wisconsin–Madison Rhetoric Society of America Spring Symposium (Virtual). April 11–12, 2024.
• “Rhetorical Sound: A Call to Action to Bring Back Aural Listening and Learning into College Classrooms.”
Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) Conference. April 3, 2024 — Spokane, WA.
• “A Decolonial Approach to Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theater.”
Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands. March 7–9, 2024 — San Antonio, TX.
• “Rhetorical Sound: A Call to Action to Consider the Accessibility of Aural Learning.”
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) Annual Conference (Virtual). February 1–2, 2024.
2023
• “Rhetorical Sound: Bring Back Aural Listening and Learning into College Classrooms.”
TYCA-West. September 29, 2023 — Salt Lake Community College, Taylorsville, UT.
2022
• “Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). October 2022 — Albuquerque, NM.
• “Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On.”
54th Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference: Navigating Medieval Spaces: Real and Imagined. June 16–18, 2022 — University of Utah.
2021
• “Decolonializing Stanley Fish’s ‘Interpretive Communities’ for Academic Culture.”
University of Utah Building Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Symposium. November 2021.
• “Satan and Mankind: A Shared Interpretive Community in Paradise Lost.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), originally scheduled for October 2020; presented online in 2021.
2010
• “No Longer Warm” (Poetry Reading).
Weber State University’s 25th National Undergraduate Literature Conference. Creative Writing — Poetry. April 2–4, 2010.
