what i do
My work focuses on Black literature in the Americas and the comparative history of Atlantic slavery, in addition to translation studies and queer, feminist, and decolonial theory. I am especially keen to explore how the consolidation of academic disciplines shapes interpretive practices and what resources we have at our disposal—be they archival or conceptual—to imagine new approaches to old problems. Most broadly, my research and writing aim to make visible what might otherwise remain difficult to glimpse.
My essays and reviews have been published in outlets like Art in America, Asymptote, Commonplace, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books, in addition to several scholarly venues. I am currently working on a number of projects: a scholarly book on slave testimony in the Afro-Atlantic world; a translation and edition of works by a group of Afro-Cuban enslaved poets; a translation and edition of Afro-Brazilian satirist Luiz Gama’s first volume of poetry; an edited cluster of essays on writer Gayl Jones; and a trade book on race in Vladimir Nabokov’s late fiction.
I earned a PhD in English from Harvard University and previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College. See my complete CV here.
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