Education
Ph. D in French/Francophone Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, 2025
Dissertation Title: Redefining the nation? Rap, communities, and institutions in Québec

M.A. in French/Francophone Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, 2020

B.A. in History and French, summa cum laude and highest honors, University of Maine, 2016
Honors Thesis Title: ‘The ‘Darkening Sky’: French Popular Music of the 1960s and May 1968

Selected Employment Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Wabash College

Research Assistant, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University Bloomington, 2019-2025
● Drafted, revised, and proofread external and internal grant applications, securing over $80,000 in awards for events, publications, and fellowships on Early West African cinema
● Supervised undergraduate research on early African cinemas for digital humanities project
● Contributed to academic publications by proofreading and formatting scholarly monograph in French and research articles in English, among other duties

Associate Instructor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University Bloomington, 2018-2024
● Instructor of Record for fifteen sections of French language courses
● Planned lessons, facilitated class meetings, designed pedagogical and assessment materials, held office hours, and provided feedback for up to forty-four students per semester
● Assisted with English-language courses in general education, by supporting assignment design, grading, facilitating class sessions, and leading weekly discussion sections with students, and in media studies, by producing quality pedagogical explanations related to cultural studies and film studies, assisting in assessment design, and assessing student writing

Professional Memberships
American Council for Québec Studies
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
L’Association française d’études canadiennes
L’Association internationale des études québécoises
Phi Beta Kappa

Languages
English (Native)
French (Heritage speaker, near-native)
Haitian Creole (Intermediate low)