I am currently a PhD candidate in the English Department at Michigan State University. My research interests include postmodern and contemporary fiction, specifically at the intersection of weird fiction, ecology, and theology. I hold a BA and MA from Gannon University, where I taught freshman composition and served as the assistant director of the university’s Writing Center. My current dissertation project, tentatively titled "Fungal Sacraments: Weird Fiction and Apophatic Ecology," explores a long 2oth century of ecologically-inclined weird fictions. I argue that, through fungi, weird fiction has been integral in shaping a chthonically tangled conversation about re-spiritualizing ecological discourse. Drawing from the long history of apophatic theology, I argue that writers of the weird have developed what I am calling an apophatic ecology by considering fungi as both privileged subjects and as theoretical framework for thinking differently about human relations with the more-than-human world. At MSU, I have taught courses in IAH, WRAC, and the English department, and am currently teaching an online summer course titled Monstrous Natures: Horror, the Supernatural, and the Environment.