About Me

Hello! It’s lovely to meet you. I’m a fourth year PhD student based at Homerton College at the University of Cambridge. My dissertation – tentatively titled Reading Mormonly – examines how Latter-day Saint authors from 1985 to 2015 have depicted Mormon theology in YA speculative fiction texts. Looking at Twilight, Mistborn, Ender’s Game, The Goose Girl, and more, I think about the intersections of Queer and feminist theory, age studies, and Mormon studies to better understand the stories LDS authors tell.

Beyond my dissertation, I’m also interested in speculative fiction, Queer theory, pop culture, contemporary religious studies, and questions of what, exactly, it means to be a grown up. I’ve presented my research at conferences around the world (including Child and the Book, IRSCL, the Mormon History Association, and Mormon Scholars in the Humanities), and have had book reviews published in The British Journal of Education and the Global Libraries Initiative. While I’ve been at Cambridge, I have supervised on Children’s Literature, Shakespeare, research methods, and Arts, Creativity, and Play courses.  

Outside of my professional work, I am also an editor and the director of emerging voices at Wayfare Magazine. I have also had narrative non-fiction work published in Dialogue and Exponent II . In my free time, I enjoying running, playing the piano, sneaking back home to Utah for time in the mountains, writing fantasy novels, and exploring London’s theatre scene. I’m also a dedicated plant mum who hosts a tragic (yet compelling!) plant funeral.