Other Service

Committee and Student Organization Service

Chapter Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, Omicron Epsilon, 2025-present

Secondary English Education Coordinator, Educator Preparation Program Reaccreditation Committee 2024-present

Secondary English Education Coordinator, National Council of the Teachers of English Reaccreditation Team 2024-present

Member, World Literature Curriculum Committee 2023-2024

Member, Student Experience Committee 2021-2022 Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee 2019-2021

President, Graduate Students in English Organization 2019-2021

President, Sigma Tau Delta, Chapter Lambda Zeta 2011-2012

President, Sigma Tau Delta, Chapter Alpha Alpha Iota 2009-2010

Fiction Judge, The Dillettanti Spring 2025

Peer-Reviewer, Public Humanities Journal: “How to Do a Public Dissertation” Fall 2024

Peer-Reviewer, Adaptation Journal: “‘A movie about flowers?’ Notes on the ecological turn in adaptation studies” Spring 2024

Board of Directors, Gateway Literary Press 2020-present

Judge, Jessie O’Kelly Freshman Essay Award 2019 & 2020

Judge, Best of the Net Contest, Sundress Publications 2017

Editorial Assistant, Sundress Publications 2016-2017

Judge, Fabulist Fiction Contest, The Gateway Review 2016 & 2017

Director, Evolving Voices Reading Series 2015-2016

Founding Director, Hector Mendez Reading Series 2013-2015

Founding Director, New Tech Odessa Writing Center 2013-2015

Director, Thursday Night Reading Series 2011-2012

Senior Tutor, University of Texas-Permian Basin Writing Center 2007-2010

Moderator, Eudora Welty Writers Symposium, Oct. 2025

Coordinator, Spring 2026 Advising Document, Oct. 2025

Founding Editor, Adaptation Today 2023-present

Assistant Editor, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom 2022-present

Website Developer, Boom or Bust Research Collection 2019-2020

Media Development Director, Graduate Studies in English Organization 2018-2019

Digital Media Coordinator, Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2018-2020

Research Instruction Assistant, University of Arkansas Libraries-Mullins Library 2019-2020

Lead Investigator, S.A.V.E. Affordable Textbook Grant 2015-2016

Headed a committee who were awarded a grant to create two digital textbooks for use by first-year composition students. Editor of both books.

Assistant Fiction Editor, Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal 2010-2011

Editor-in-Chief, Sandstorm Literary Magazine 2009-2010

Editor-in-Chief, The Mesa Journal 2007-2010