I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. My degrees include: a PhD in English and an MA in Philosophy from The CUNY Graduate Center; an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University; an MM in Composition from the Mannes College of Music; and a BM in Composition and Choral Conducting from Chapman University. (What can I say? I ❤︎ school.) My current scholarship traverses the intersections of literary modernism, African American literature, Queer Theory, ecocriticism, and deconstruction. My scholarly writing has appeared in Psychoanalysis and History, Feminist Modernist Studies, New American Notes Online (NANO), Arizona Quarterly, and Derrida Today. My research on Gertrude Stein and global warming is forthcoming in PMLA. I’m currently working on a monograph, Drag Education: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching, for Punctum Books.
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Book review, Psychoanalysis and History, 2023.
"The Octopus and the Pelican: Queer 'Efforts of Affection' Between Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop." Feminist Modernist Studies, October 17, 2022.
“This Is What Makes Us Girls.” Special issue of New American Notes Online (NANO), Issue 16, 2022.
“Writing in Cars with Gertrude Stein and Jacques Derrida, or, The Age of Autotheory.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, Volume 76, Number 1, Spring 2020.
“To Work Black Magic: Richard Bruce Nugent’s Queer Transnational Insurgency”, JAm It!, 2018.
Book review, Derrida Today, 2018.
