I received my PhD in English from Cornell University in 2016, where I completed a dissertation project focused on the nature of secularization in nineteenth-century British poetry with a particular focus on William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. My scholarship has appeared in the Hopkins Quarterly, European Romantic Review, New Literary History, and other venues.

I presently serve as the Interim Director of the Junior Fellows Program at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where I previously was an Étienne Gilson Post-Doctoral Fellow. My ongoing work at St. Mike's informs my present scholarly and personal interest in the role of intellectual friendship in academic life. I am especially passionate about the potential of "academic-adjacent spaces" to birth and sustain such friendships, an idea that I recently explored here.

My current research project draws on a rich historical array of thinkers—including Plato, Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Simone Weil, and Wendell Berry—to inquire into the moral shape of the intellectual life. The individual and collective discovery of this shape must, I argue, be at the core of any attempt to revitalize and reform the contemporary university.