MA in Comparative Literature, University College London (UCL), London, UK|
BA in English and German Literature, Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität, Bonn, Germany
Study-Abroad: University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Areas of Interest
Postcolonial literature, Afrofutururism, Africanfuturism
Animal Studies
Posthumanism
Black Studies
Recent Courses Taught
English 1113 and 1213: First-Year Composition
English 1113 Co-requisite: First-Year Composition
English 1413: First-Year Composition (Multimodal)
English 2413: Conversations in Literature
Selected Publications
“Queering Genre: A Queer Reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother”. Wreck Park Journal, Critical. 2019.
Selected Conference Presentations
“Fictions of Oppression: The Captivity Narrative as Political Tool.” This Land is My Land”: Reclaiming Spaces and Narratives English Graduate Student Conference, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK. 7-9 Mar 2019.
Professional Appointments or Professional Service
Managing Editor,American Indian Quarterly
Assistant Director of First-Year Composition
Awards and Recognition
OSU FYC Certificate for Outstanding Achievement in Writing Pedagogy, 2020
Walkiewicz Contemporary Studies Scholarship, 2019
May Wilson Wood Scholarship, 2018
Luecke Memorial Prize, 2019
Current Research
I am currently working on my dissertation on the representation of animal welfare in postcolonial texts and media. The animal, in particular but not limited to the dog, remains fraught with political power in efforts of decolonization. I hope my project will contribute to a body of knowledge that practices epistemic disobedience, follows the “decolonial option” (Mignolo) to create a potential for alternative ways of relationality and being.