University of California, Riverside

Graduate Student, English

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Thesis Title: Arrested Developments: The Queer Politics of Reimagining Childhood

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside. I specialize in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, children's and adolescent literature, film and media, gender and sexuality, queer and feminist studies, and age. Although I have many academic interests, my recent writing, research, and teaching focus on issues of temporality, intimacy, kinship and domesticity, property and consumption, race, and intertextuality.

Currently, I am working on my dissertation, "Arrested Developments: The Queer Politics of Reimagining Childhood." This project examines the radical politics of queer literary, filmic, and artistic productions that, through reimagining and revising children's fiction, critique the heteronormative child-adult binary.

I am a graduate teaching fellow in UCR's Department of English, the coordinator for the UCR GradPREP Graduate Student Mentoring Program, a mentor for the UCR LGBT Resource Center's Allies Safe Zone Program, a co-founder and member of UCR's Queer Theory Working Group, and a graduate representative for this year's Andrew W. Mellon Workshop in the Humanities, "Medical Narratives: Telling an Interdisciplinary Story of Suffering and Hope." I am both a former assistant director for UCR's University Writing Program and a former GradPREP Graduate Student Mentoring Program mentor. I am also a 2011-12 UCR Dissertation Year Fellowship recipient.

I have a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies and a M.A. in Cultural Studies and American and British Literature from Kansas State University.

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