I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University, having earned an A.B. in Comparative Literature and a Certificate in Finance from Princeton University and an M.Phil. in Comparative Literature from Yale.
My dissertation, “Literary Souvenirs: Didactic Materialism in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction,” examines the influence of didactic children’s fiction and the contiguous material culture of education (primers, maps, puzzles, and toys sold with books) on the novel.
My research interests include material culture studies and the history of the book, literature and economics, children’s literature, and the rise of the novel.
