Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies (anticipated completion Date: May 2025)
  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  Area of Study: Religion, Literature, and Culture
  Dissertation: The Dark Arts: Religious Worldbuilding in Experimental African-American Literature
• Master of Arts in Religious Studies, 2019. 
  University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  Area of Study: Religion & Literature
• Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies & History, 2017.
  Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA

Research & Teaching Interests

Religion and Literature, Aesthetics, Africana Religions, Philosophy of Religion, American Religious History, Afro-Buddhism, Theories and Methods of Religious Studies, Black Studies, African-American Literary History and Theory, Theories of Modernity and Post-Modernity, Ritual Studies, Interpretation Theory.

Comprehensive Exams

• Africana Religious History
• Theories and Methods of Religion: Black Religious Studies
• Theories and Methods of Religion: Religion and Literature
• Hermeneutics & Interpretation Theory
• 20th Century African American Fiction

Teaching Experience​​​​​​​

• American Spirituality: Spiritual But Not Religious, University of Virginia, Spring 2021, 2022, and 2023
• Introduction to Asian Religions, University of Virginia, Fall 2021
• Introduction to Anthropology, University of Virginia, Fall 2020, TA
• Introduction to Religious Thought, University of Georgia, Fall 2018 & Spring 2019, Instructor
• Introduction to Western Traditions, University of Georgia, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018, TA