I hold a PhD in English from the University of Michigan and, during the 2010-2011 school year, was a Lecturer in the English Department at UM, where I taught courses on writing, poetry, and historical and science fiction. Some of my research interests include dialect literature, the history of language study and language policy in 19th-century America, and digital media and pedagogy. In August 2011, I began as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow at MPublishing, the library-based publishing division at the University of Michigan.