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’sn̄ 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)