Education:
B.A., American Studies, Barnard College
M.F.A., Poetry, Boston University
M.A., Ph.D., English, University of Connecticut
Areas of Interest/Research:
- Twentieth-century American literature
- American Studies
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Black Studies
- Queer theory
- Ethnic studies
- Queer of color critique
Publications:
- “‘I Want Them To Feel Everything’: A Conversation with SfSx Creator Tina Horn.” FRAME: Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 36., no. 2. Under review.
- “Sexualities.” Co-authored with Dr. Janelle Pham. Investigating Social Problems, 4th ed., Sage Publishing (2024). Forthcoming.
- “‘Anything Might Happen’: Spatial Metaphor, Instability, and Escape in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 2 (2023), pp. 115-140.
- “‘They Are Busy With This Woman’: The Abject Erotics of Gayl Jones’s Eva’s Man.” At the Limits of Desire: Black Radical Pleasure, 50th anniversary special issue of The Black Scholar, vol. 50, no. 2 (2020), pp. 57-65.
- “‘Hurt You Into Tenderness Finally’: Erotic Masochism & Black Female Subjectivity in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 44, no. 1 (2019): pp. 87-109.
Courses Taught:
- WGS/ENG 290: Queer Genre
- WGS/SOC 206: Sexuality and Society
- WGS 290: Gender and Globalization
- WGS/COM 380: Feminist Media Studies
- WGS/AAS 290: Introduction to Queer Studies and Queer of Color Critique
- COR 101: Narratives of the Self I
- WGS 101: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Awards:
- 2024 Champion of Inclusive Excellence Faculty Award
