About Me

I’m Miranda (she/her), a writer, podcaster, and Assistant Professor of English at Snow College in the scenic Mountain West. I previously taught at a variety of schools in Southern California, including Moreno Valley College, Cal State Los Angeles, and my alma mater, The University of California (Riverside).

My doctoral dissertation, Nineteenth-Century Sound Reading: Auditory Observation in the Margins of Literature and Science, was inspired by information theory and Sound Studies. It analyzes three nineteenth-century reading and writing systems that relied on dots and dashes to send and receive messages: Braille, Morse code, and phonetic shorthand. Although each was originally developed for a limited group of people, the frequent representation of these systems in literature made them more culturally widespread—my dissertation demonstrates that a literary and cultural studies methodology derived from information theory can productively highlight the reading and writing skills of communities who are historically marginalized due to gender, disability, socioeconomic status, and other identity categories.

As an undergraduate, I studied English, Linguistics, and Classics at the University of Arizona. While working on my B.A., I also received specialized training from Arizona’s renowned Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques (SALT) Center, where I developed a lifelong passion for teaching and tutoring college students with learning disabilities. I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Riverside, where I pursued research in nineteenth-century literature, science, and media technologies; I am a frequently-consulted expert on Victorian monster stories, particularly Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, since I spent time as both a research assistant and co-curator within the archives at UCR’s Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

My English Department profile at Snow College is available here.

My English Department profile at UCR is available here.

Website last updated: March 2022