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Degrees

  • 2008 BA in English, Rutgers University–Newark
  • 2018 PhD in English, Emory University
  • 2020 MFA in Poetry, The Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Interest
  • Creative writing (poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction)
  • Global and postcolonial studies
  • Settler colonial studies
  • Ecocriticism
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Militarism and nuclearism
Courses Taught
  • English 261: Advanced Fiction & Poetry
  • English 161: Introduction to Fiction & Poetry
  • English 165: Editing a Literary Magazine
Publications
  • “‘Wave Song’: Radiation Ecologies and Women’s Transpacific Poetics.” Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements. (Forthcoming in a special volume under contract with Liverpool UP.)
  • “Little Magazines from across Island Networks.” Asian Journal of African Studies 48 (2020),
    55–81. (Special issue from 2019 ACLA panel, “Texts Travelling Beyond the West.”)
  • “Medbh McGuckian’s Aesthetics of Introversion.” Textual Practice 34.4 (2020), 627-646
  • “Paradise and Apocalypse: Critiques of Nuclear Imperialism in Kathy Jet il-Kijiner’s Iep
    Jāltok.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies 41.1 (2018), 119–132.
  • Beyond Machine Dreams: Zen, Cyber-, and Transnational Feminisms in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale
    for the Time Being.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 13.2
    (2016), 99–122.
    Essays
  • “Ondobondo’s Visual Publics: Small Print Culture in Papua New Guinea.” Little Magazines,
    cluster of Post45: Contemporaries, edited by Nick Sturm, 2023,
    <https://post45.org/2023/06/ondobondos-visual-publics-small-print-culture-in-papua-new-
    guinea/>.
  • “Re-Staging the American ‘Freakshow’ in Olio: Tyehimba Jess’s Syncopated Sonnets. The
    American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, edited by Dora Malech and Laura T.
    Smith, University of Iowa Press, 2022, 304-312.
  • “Slow Writing: Archival Research in the Digital Age” from “Dead Forms; or, A Defense of
    Good, Old-Fashioned Scholarly Writing.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language
    Association of America, 133.1 (2018), 190–198
Awards
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Poetry (2024)