About Me
I earned my PhD in English Literature in Spring 2021 from the University of Kansas, with an emphasis on global modernist literature, postcolonial studies, and critical theory.
My work analyzes identity formations in the literature and media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I draw upon trans studies, black studies, and biopolitical theory to diagnose and reconfigure the manner in which life becomes political.
My teaching engages students in questions of how literature and media interface with politics and identity on a global scale.
Students in my courses read global Anglophone literature, play video games, watch films, and study philosophy as they discover how the tools of humanistic study open up worlds of interpretive possibility in and beyond novels and poems.
Education:
PhD, English Literature. University of Kansas, May 2021
Hall Center for the Humanities Doctoral Fellowship, Fall 2016-Spring 2020
Dissertation: “Worlding Modernism: The Political, the Postcolonial, and the Modern Body”
Chair: Phillip Drake. Honors recommended. Nominated for Argersinger Dissertation Award
MA, English Literature. Arizona State University, May 2015
BA, English and Philosophy. University of Kansas, May 2011
AA, General Studies. New York University, May 2009