Education
Ph.D., Brown University
M.A., Brown University
B.A., Stanford University
Biography
After growing up in Southern Oregon, I attended Stanford University, where I earned a B.A. in Italian Literature in 2014. I spent two years in NYC teaching middle and high school writing and literature, and then went to Brown, where I earned an M.A. and then a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. My dissertation, entitled “Myths of White Innocence, Black Opportunity & Multiracial Transcendence: Mapping Out the American West,” examines primarily 20th century American literature, film and media emerging from and concerning blacks in the American West, thinking through how antiblackness is insidiously articulated through the geographic and ideological landscape of the ever-developing frontier territory of the United States.
I will be teaching the following courses in 2023-24: “Passing Mixing Reproducing: Race & Intimacy in American Discourse,” and “Does Representation Matter?”