In August 2025, I found out that I was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS). I’ve been a member of AAS since graduate school, and I’m a huge fan of their work. I’m so excited to do what I can to help this amazing adaptation organization continue to…

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be presenting for the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies’s Adaptation SIG (special interest group). Kristen Figgins: “Adaptation at the Edges: The Pedagogical Merits of Near Adaptations in Canonical Conversation.”  This will be online at 4-5pm (UK time) and the link is here: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85493269855?pwd=jHer3ugID8vNDhsIHaM3fCLV7oxz5i.1

I’m very pleased to announce that beginning in Fall 2021, I will be an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi University for Women in lovely Columbus, MS. I’m excited to join a team of professors who are passionate not only about their own research, but also teaching an incredible generation of future scholars and well-rounded…

With the success of the ADAPTATION TODAY listserv, I’m now pleased to announce the founding of Adaptation Today, a website focused on providing a sense of community, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst all scholars interested in adaptation. The site began as a conversation at SAMLA in November 2023 about how scholars in adaptation studies can become…

I’m really excited to announce that I have started a listserv called Adaptation Today. Here’s the blurb about it: ADAPTATION TODAY is an international electronic discussion group (or “listserv”) devoted to adaptation studies. Available to anyone with access to the Internet through a university computer system or commercial service gateway, in the shape of a…

I’m so excited to announce that starting in January 2023, I will be an Assistant Editor for the fabulous, the fantastic Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, a project that I’ve been following closely since its inception in 2020. Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) is a wonderful project that came out of the call to “Undiscipline Victorian…

I’m excited to announce that beginning in May 2023, I will be teaching with the Gender Studies program at the University of Arkansas. Gender is a hugely important part of my research, so it’s a thrill to work on developing new courses for this exciting program. Some of the courses I’m working on are: I’ll…

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be guest editing a special issue of South Atlantic Review titled “Adapting the Victorians.” The issue should be debuting in Winter 2023, and I couldn’t be more excited about the prospect. The South Atlantic Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the South Atlantic Modern Language…

I am pleased to announce that I passed my dissertation defense on November 10, 2021 with no major revisions.

I am pleased to announce that I am serving as Visiting Instructor of English at the University of Central Arkansas for the AY 2021-2022. I am having a great time teaching my UCA students, many of whom are first-generation college students and enthusiastic to be in the classroom. They are a delight! This semester I…

Very exciting news today! As I have a complete and full draft of my dissertation, my advisor has given me the green light to schedule my dissertation defense for November 10, 2021! This is a huge milestone for me, and I am so excited to begin preparing for this next big step in my academic…

I found out this week that the University of Arkansas’s Rhetoric and Composition Office (RCO) will be adapting my grading contract (which I’ve used since 2019) for mandatory use in all of their upcoming composition programming. I’ve been very excited to share my experiences using a grading contract, as I think a learner-centered approach to…