I’m really delighted (and still a little shocked) to announce that I won the prestigious Faculty Member of the Year award for 2026. This award is student-driven, which makes it all the more humbling to receive. All credit for this award is definitely due to my students, who I assume must have done some kind…

I’m really excited to announce that I won a Faculty Research Grant to study AI in education, which I am VERY excited about! Here’s an excerpt from my proposal: Perhaps no topic of discussion has been more perplexing in the past five years than the use of generative AI (such as ChatGPT) in the classroom….

I’m really pleased to announce that I won the 2026 New Faculty Member of the Year Award at The W. This award goes to any faculty member who joined The W campus within the last five years and its purpose is “to reward the hard work of a newer faculty member in supporting the academic…

In August 2025, I found out that I was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS). I’ve been a member of AAS since graduate school, and I’m a huge fan of their work. I’m so excited to do what I can to help this amazing adaptation organization continue to…

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be presenting for the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies’s Adaptation SIG (special interest group). Kristen Figgins: “Adaptation at the Edges: The Pedagogical Merits of Near Adaptations in Canonical Conversation.”  This will be online at 4-5pm (UK time) and the link is here: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85493269855?pwd=jHer3ugID8vNDhsIHaM3fCLV7oxz5i.1

I’m very pleased to announce that beginning in Fall 2021, I will be an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi University for Women in lovely Columbus, MS. I’m excited to join a team of professors who are passionate not only about their own research, but also teaching an incredible generation of future scholars and well-rounded…

With the success of the ADAPTATION TODAY listserv, I’m now pleased to announce the founding of Adaptation Today, a website focused on providing a sense of community, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst all scholars interested in adaptation. The site began as a conversation at SAMLA in November 2023 about how scholars in adaptation studies can become…

I’m really excited to announce that I have started a listserv called Adaptation Today. Here’s the blurb about it: ADAPTATION TODAY is an international electronic discussion group (or “listserv”) devoted to adaptation studies. Available to anyone with access to the Internet through a university computer system or commercial service gateway, in the shape of a…

I’m so excited to announce that starting in January 2023, I will be an Assistant Editor for the fabulous, the fantastic Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, a project that I’ve been following closely since its inception in 2020. Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) is a wonderful project that came out of the call to “Undiscipline Victorian…

I’m excited to announce that beginning in May 2023, I will be teaching with the Gender Studies program at the University of Arkansas. Gender is a hugely important part of my research, so it’s a thrill to work on developing new courses for this exciting program. Some of the courses I’m working on are: I’ll…

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be guest editing a special issue of South Atlantic Review titled “Adapting the Victorians.” The issue should be debuting in Winter 2023, and I couldn’t be more excited about the prospect. The South Atlantic Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the South Atlantic Modern Language…

I am pleased to announce that I passed my dissertation defense on November 10, 2021 with no major revisions.