Eden is a Graduate Assistant Director in the Yale College Writing Center, a McDougal Teaching Fellow, a Graduate Mentor with the Academic Strategies Program, and a PhD candidate in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. At the Poorvu Center, they coordinate the Writing Center’s Weekly Writing Partners program, design and facilitate teaching workshops, provide consultations and support programming for graduate and postdoctoral instructors, mentor and advise First-Generation/Low-Income (FGLI) students, and provide writing tutoring to undergraduates across the curriculum.
In the English department, Eden convenes the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium and serves on the Graduate Student Advisory Committee. Their dissertation, “Cripples of Sex: Avowing Disability in Midcentury Queer Fiction,” reappraises the place of disability discourses in LGBT literature and culture of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. They have also published work in film studies and media theory.
Eden is a passionate teacher whose pedagogy centers joy, inclusion, and accessibility. Their teaching includes composition courses on topics from pirates to disability studies, as well as courses in modernist literature and queer and trans history and politics. They have a special keenness for working with FGLI, neurodivergent, and non-traditional students.
Outside of Yale, Eden can be found reading voraciously, knitting mediocrely, visiting escape rooms and Renaissance fairs with their partner, and spoiling their little dog, Wilkie Collins.