I am a scholar of modern and contemporary American literature, media, and poetics. My research examines how literary criticism and genre have shaped debates about gender, race, and higher education in the U.S. since the 1970s. I am especially interested in the histories of feminist and queer criticism.

My dissertation was about the status of poetry in the recent history of minoritarian cultural criticism: as the paradigm for a broader crisis in literary studies, as a site of contestation in culture wars, as a vehicle for registering, refusing, or adjusting to institutional conditions increasingly hostile to humanistic expertise. Chapters addressed Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s papers and the poetics of her queer theory; the feminist poets Adrienne Rich and June Jordan and reassessments of their relationship during global campus protests in 2024; and Christina Sharpe’s black feminist criticism in the context of her collaborations with Dionne Brand.

I am developing the work I began in the dissertation with two projects titled Lyric Attachments: Minoritarian Poetics and Criticism in Crisis and The Race for Reparative Reading. I have begun research for a third project, Separatist Science Fictions, about speculative fiction, genre communities, epistemic bubbles, technological futurity, and the politics of exit or withdrawal.