Biography

I graduated from the Andrews University English Department with a emphasis in composition and secondary education in 1999. Following that I spent four years teaching high school English at Broadview Academy in Illinois and seventeen years teaching high school English at Spencerville Adventist Acedemy.  The later years of my teaching at SAA focused on upper-division high school courses. I also chaired the high school curriculum committee for many years.

In the fall of 2019, I decided to transition to full-time academia at Western Michigan University. I began my PhD studies in literature in the fall of 2020. My areas of emphasis are Romantic and Victorian British literature, specifically film adaptations of texts from those eras. An additional area of interest is Agatha Christie's Golden Age mysteries, and my dissertation focuses on two of her texts and their 1970s and 2000s adaptations, paying special attention to the roles mothers, daughters, and wives/significant others play in the texts.

Current Research or Professional Activities

"'He that hath that Son, hath that life': Patriarchal Succession in Justin Kurzel's Adaptation of Macbeth (2015)." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 3, summer 2024, https://lfq.salisbury.edu/#gsc.tab=0.