My teaching and research focus on the critical study of race, gender, and identity in modernist literature, postcolonialism, and media studies, with an emphasis on twentieth-century global Anglophone writing and African diasporic literatures, weaving together African and Caribbean literature with the British avant-garde, as well as the study of media, popular culture, and video games.
Rethinking politics and culture through comparative analysis is central to my work in and out of the classroom, which unearths ways that experimental art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reconfigures the global terrain of the living. My first book, The Biopolitics of Global Modernism, reveals the intertwinement of the political organization of life with twentieth-century global Anglophone literature, demonstrating how the linked biopolitical technologies of species, race, and gender, read alongside historical processes of imperialism and colonialism, shape the twentieth-century literary politics of the living in modernist and postcolonial writing.
Book
2027. The Biopolitics of Global Modernism: Vital Hospitality in Twentieth-Century Literature. University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming.
Recent Courses
Introduction to Videogame Studies
African Literature
Feminism and British Modernism
Edited Volume
2025. The Metal Gear Solid Series: Critical Essays and New Perspectives. Coedited with Steven Kielich, Bloomsbury Academic.
Recent Articles and Chapters
2026. “Between Two Abysses, the Dog: Spanning Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush.” Feminist Formations, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 94-116.
2026. “Reading, and Other Insecurities.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 62-79.
2025. “What Break?” Cultural Studies in the Interregnum, edited by Robert F. Carley, Anne Donlon, Beenash Jafri, Laura J. Kwak, Eero Laine, SAJ, and Chris Alen Sula, Temple University Press, pp. 20-31.
2024. “Woman-Thinking in the Dark Core: Life Otherwise and the Community to Come.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 21-44.
2024. “Fidelity to Life ~ Hospitable Biopolitics.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 29, nos. 1-2, pp. 9-19.
2024. “‘As if Possessed by a Demon’: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid.” With Steven Kielich. Games and Culture, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 898-915.
2023. “Scarred Flesh and the X of Law.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 10, nos. 3-4, pp. 410-425.
2023. “Fascist Racism and Modernist Animals: Toward a Posthuman Sovereignty.” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 379-404.