Ann Marie is currently a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow at Valparaiso University, where she teaches humanities courses in the undergraduate honors college. She earned a PhD in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2024. Her current book project, tentatively titled A Poetics of Conversion: Religious Experience and Modernist Form, tells a literary history of religious conversion in the twentieth century, bringing together the writings of Anglophone converts including Oscar Wilde, Mina Loy, Claude McKay, T. S. Eliot, and Hope Mirrlees, among others. Her project explores how modernist writers decoupled the experience of conversion from its traditional narrative conventions. These modernist converts instead point towards a poetics of conversion that imagines the experience of religious transformation outside the strictures of linear teleology.
Her public-facing writing frequently explores the entanglements of religion, gender, and race, among other topics. Ann Marie loves cooking, traveling, and gazing adoringly at her dog Frida.
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