Education

Ph.D., Department of English, University of Tennessee, ABD

Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities

Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

M.A., Department of English, Winthrop University, 2018

B.A., Department of English, Winthrop University, 2016

Awards and Fellowships

2024 Center for Renaissance Studies Dissertation Seminar, “Disability as Method: Cripping the Archive,” Newberry Library

2024 Judith Slagle Archival Research Award, University of Tennessee

2024 Denbo Humanities Center Research Grant, University of Tennessee

2024 John Hurt Fisher Community Engagement Fellow, University of Tennessee

2023 John C. Hodges Excellence in Scholarship Award, University of Tennessee

2023 New Research in the Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Tennessee 

2023 Judith Slagle Archival Research Award, University of Tennessee 

2023 Nathalia Wright Fellowship, University of Tennessee

2023 Davis Editorial Assistantship, University of Tennessee

2022 NEH Institute for Advanced Digital Methodologies: Modeling the Text and Making the Edition, University of Pittsburgh

2022 New Research in the Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Tennessee 

2021 Isobel Griscom Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee 

2021 John C. Hodges Fellowship for New Graduate Students, University of Tennessee 

2018 Inducted to Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Society, Winthrop University

2017 Thesis Summer Research Grant, Wake Forest University 

2016. Inez Bell Caskey Undergraduate Research Award, Winthrop University

Publications

2025 “‘Let's Tell a Vampire Story’: Imagined Cinematic Landscape, Memory, and HIV/AIDS in New York by Night,” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, forthcoming.

2025 “Revolutionary Fem(me)ininity in A Court of Fey and Flowers,” Feral Feminisms 13, no. 2, forthcoming.

2024 Hilary Havens, Eliza Alexander Wilcox, Meredith Hale, and Jamie Kramer. “From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 18, no. 2.

2024 Nancy Henry, Eliza Alexander Wilcox, and Amber Walters-Molina, co-editors, “INCS 2023,” Nineteenth Century Contexts, 46.1 (Spring 2024) 

2023 “A binder of vampire fanfic cast my mother’s struggle with AIDS in a new light.” Polygon. 8 November 2023. 

2023 Review of Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction, by Talia Schafer, and The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism, by S. Pearl Brilmyer, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, forthcoming. 

Presentations

2025 “Coquette Core: Femme Embodiment at the End of the Eighteenth-Century,” Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, Feb. 2025.

2024 “‘'They only give a little polish': Emma, Femme-Crips, and the War of Ideas” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Toronto, Ontario, CD, Apr. 2024. 

2024 “Byron’s The Deformed Transformed and TransCrip Embodiment.” Dickens Universe Winter Conference, College Park, MD, Mar. 2024. 

2023 Seminar Participant. North American Victorian Studies Association, Bloomington, IN, Nov 2023.

2023 Graduate Student Representative, University of Tennessee. Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, CA July 2023.

2023 “Regency Fem(me)ininity in A Court of Fey and Flowers.” Virtual JaneCon, Online, July 2023.

2023 “Fit Check: High Femme Aesthetic, Jane Austen, and Queer Embodiment in A Court of Fey and Flowers.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, St. Louis, MO, Mar. 2023.

2022 “Anatomizing the Imagination: Anatomy Museums and Wilkie Collins’ Heart and Science” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Lake City, UT,Mar. 2022.

2022 “Anatomizing the Imagination: Anatomy Museums and Wilkie Collins’ Heart and Science” Dickens Universe Winter Conference, Santa Cruz, CA, Feb. 2022.

2021 “Letting Die or Making Live: Death and Queer Revisioning in Two Versions of Carmilla.” Victorian Institutes Conference, Charlotte, NC, Oct. 2021. 

2021 Graduate Student Representative, University of Tennessee. Dickens Universe, Online, July 2021. 

2019 “‘I felt the immortal longings in me’”: The Bondwoman’s Narrative, Frankenstein, and the Monster Question.” Victorian Institutes Conference, Charleston, SC, Nov. 2019. 

2018. “Pulling the Heterosexual Roots: Unpacking the Queer Connections Between Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Sketches and Poetry.” Victorian Institutes Conference, Asheville, NC, Nov. 2018.

Invited Talks

2024 “Big Bad Academy: Dice, Deviance, and Dragons,” BigBadCon, San Francisco, October 2024.

2024 “Personal Archives and Minor Histories of the AIDS Epidemic,” University of Tennessee, May 2024. 

2023 “Embodied History and the AIDS Crisis,” University of Tennessee, December 2023.

Service

2025 Co-chair, Digital Humanities Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Online, Apr 2025

2024 Co-chair, “Accessibility in Eighteenth-Century Digital Humanities,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, ON, CA. Apr 2024.

2023 Graduate Student Organizer, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Knoxville, TN. Apr 2023.