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EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (2020-2024)

Christ Church College, University of Oxford
English Literature / Rothermere American Institute

Master of Philosophy (2016-2017)

Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
English Literature / Criticism & Culture

Bachelor of Arts, Hons (2012-2015)

St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
English Language and Literature

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & FUNDING

Fellowship and Full Merit Scholarship, Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC), University of Oxford. 2020-2024. (Full academic scholarship; £17,500 annual stipend.)

Clarendon Trust Fellowship, University of Oxford. 2020-2024. (Joint award with above)

Christ Church College Scholarship, University of Oxford. 2020-2024. (Joint award with above)

Travel Grant, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Funded attendance of the American Literature Association Conference, 2023. (£500)

Research Grant, Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. Funded attendance of the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory. 2022. (£2000)

Research Grant, Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Funded attendance of the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory. 2022. (£1000)

Research Grant, Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. Funded attendance of Outside/rs Conference, University of Brighton. 2021. (£300)

Newton Trust Scholarship, University of Cambridge. 2016-2017. (£12,000 annual stipend)

Magdalene College Scholarship, University of Cambridge. 2016-17. (Full academic scholarship)

Gibbs Prize: Highest Overall First in English Literature Final Honour Schools, University of Oxford. 2015. (£500)

Gibbs Prize: Highest Overall First in English for Extended Essay at Final Honour Schools, University of Oxford. 2015. (£300)

Master’s Prize: Distinction in Collections Examinations, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. (Winter) 2014. (£50)

Master’s Prize: Distinction in Collections Examinations, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. (Spring) 2014. (£50)

Master’s Scholarship, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. Awarded for achieving Distinction in Preliminary Examinations. 2013. (£200)

Master’s Prize: Distinction in Collections Examinations, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. 2013. (£50)

PUBLICATIONS

‘Critical Cliché,’ in Special Issue: ‘The Potential of Cliché,’ Post45, eds. Harriet S. Hughes and Siraj Sindhu (forthcoming in early 2025).

‘The Pronominal Grammar of Ontological Anti-Blackness: Institutionality and Authority in Afropessimism and The Undercommons,’ Authorship, Special Issue: ‘Institutions of Authorship,’ 11:1 (2023). <https://doi.org/10.21825/authorship.85419>.

‘Repair: A New History,’ Review: The Ruse of Repair: U.S. Neoliberal Empire and the Turn From Critique by Patricia Stuelke, Cambridge Quarterly, 52:1 (2023). <https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfac032>.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

‘Critical Cliché,’ ASAP/15. New York. 2024.

‘Pleasure and Institutionality in Ozick and The Best American Essay,’ Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia. 2024.

‘“We cannot represent ourselves, we cannot be represented”: The pronominal grammar of Afro-pessimism,’ American Studies Association Conference. Montreal. 2023.

‘The dread word “essay”: Genre, canon, and literary value in The Best American Essays,’ American Literature Association Conference. Boston. 2023.

‘The Best American Essays and its paratexts,’ English Graduate Research Seminar. University of Oxford. 2023.

‘“Be ambiguous; be white”: Claudia Rankine’s innovations in ambiguity,’ Post45 workshop. University of Notre Dame in London. 2022.

Respondent: Queer Kinship After Wilde by Kristin Mahoney, Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar. All Souls College, University of Oxford. 2022.

‘The problem of the personal,’ The Affective Turn: Outside/rs Conference, University of Brighton. 2021.

TEACHING ROLES

Adjunct Faculty – Bryant University (2024-Present)

College Tutor – Christ Church College, Oxford (2020-Present)

College Tutor – Lady Margaret’s Hall, Oxford (2023-2024)

College Tutor – Merton College, Oxford (2021-2024)

College Tutor – Mansfield College, Oxford (2022-2024)

College Tutor (Visiting Students Program) – Worcester College, Oxford (2022-2023)

College Tutor – University College, Oxford (2022-2023)

College Tutor – Oriel College (2021-2022)

COURSES TAUGHT

Dissertation supervisions

Kazuo Ishiguro and the Posthuman: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2024-2025.
Leslie Feinberg and Lesbian Subjectivities: Lady Margaret’s Hall, Oxford, 2023- 2024.
Transgender Life-Writing in the U.S., 1960-1990: Merton College, Oxford, 2023- 2024.
Elif Batuman and Autofiction: Christ Church College, Oxford, 2023- 2024.
Zadie Smith, E. M. Forster, and Aesthetic Pleasure: Christ Church College,
Oxford, 2022-2023.
Queer Vampirism, English Gothic to HIV Literature: Mansfield College, Oxford:
2022-2023.
Maggie Nelson, Queer Performativity, and Autotheory: Mansfield College,
Oxford, 2022-2023.
Hanya Yanigahara, Trauma Theory, and Medieval Devotional Literature:
University College, Oxford, 2022-2023.
Frank Ocean and Afro-fabulation: University College, Oxford, 2022-2023.
Anaïs Nin and L'écriture Feminine: Merton College, Oxford, 2021-2022.
Afro-pessimism and the Politics of Disappointment: Oriel College, Oxford, 2021-
2022.
Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Elegy: Christ Church College, Oxford,
2020- 2021.

Courses (designed and taught)

Studies in Nonfiction: What is an essay? (Bryant University)
— Syllabus featuring: o Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Theodor Adorno, Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, David Wojnarowicz.
Studies in Nonfiction: The Personal is Political (Bryant University)
— Syllabus featuring: Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, The Combahee River Collective, Gloria Anzaldua, Leslie Marmon Silko, bell hooks, Cathy J. Cohen, Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Paul Preciado, Susan Stryker.
Contemporary Literature (University of Oxford)
— Syllabus featuring: James Baldwin; Joan Didion; Toni Morrison; Audre Lorde; Donna Tartt; Helen DeWitt; Claudia Rankine; Maggie Nelson; Sheila Heti.
Queer Literature (University of Oxford)
— Syllabus featuring: James Baldwin; Anaïs Nin; Patricia Highsmith; Saidiya Hartman; Mary Gaitskill; Carmen Maria Machado; Brontez Purnell; Andrea Lawlor; Eve Sedgwick; Lauren Berlant.

Seminars (designed and taught)

‘Fugitivity and Form: From narratives of enslavement to queer memoir,’ Mansfield College, Oxford. 2022.
— Syllabus featuring: Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Fred Moten, Audre Lorde, Saidiya Hartman.

Author tutorials (designed and taught)

English and American Literature, 1800-1910
— The Brontës
— Elizabeth Gaskell
— Emily Dickinson
— Nathaniel Hawthorne o Edgar Allen Poe
English and American Literature, 1910-Contemporary
— Sylvia Plath
— Kazuo Ishiguro
— Zadie Smith
— Toni Morrison

CONFERENCE & EVENT ORGANIZING

The Potential of Cliche, ASAP/24, Co-convenor and Chair. 2024.

Cultural Enclosure and Literary Form Conference, University of Oxford: Co-convenor and Chair. 2022.

Feminist Mentorship in the University, University of Oxford: Co-convenor and Chair. 2022. Notes on Craft: Xine Yao and Ama Josephine Budge in Conversation, University of Oxford: Convenor. 2022.

Creative Writing Workshop with Rachel Cusk, University of Oxford: Workshop participant. 2022.

So You Want to Write A Novel?: Workshop with Sarah Schulman, University of Oxford: Co- convenor & workshop participant. 2021.

Sarah Schulman & Amia Srinivasan in Conversation, University of Oxford: Co-convenor. 2021.

Meet-up: ACT UP LDN, University of Oxford: Co-organizer. 2021.

Inside / Outside: English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford: Committee Member. 2021.

In Sickness and In Health: Writing the Essay Conference, University of Oxford: Co-convenor and Panellist. 2021.

SERVICE TO THE FIELD

Guest lecturer: Political Theory Seminar, Pre-College Program, Brown University. 2024.

Volunteer: American Studies Association Conference. Montreal. 2023.

Co-Convenor and Organizer: Queer Intersections Research Network, University of Oxford. Funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. 2021-Present.

Peer Reviewer: Oxford Research in English. 2021-2023.

Features Editor: Oxford Research in English. 2022-2023.

Peer Reviewer: University and Colleges Union LGBT+ Conference. 2023.

Judge: Queer Intersections Oxford Essay Prize. 2023.

Mentor: Graduate Program, English Faculty, University of Oxford, 2021-2023.

Peer Reviewer / Reader: English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford. 2021.

Transcriber: TIDE Research Project, University of Oxford and University of Liverpool. Funded by the European Research Council. 2020.

Co-editor: The Eyot Magazine. 2017-2020.

Assistant Editor / Reader: Narrative Magazine. San Francisco. 2015-2016.

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