PUBLICATIONS

‘Critical Cliche,’ Post45, Special Issue: The Potential of Cliche, eds. Harriet S. Hughes and Siraj Sindhu [forthcoming]

‘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.

SELECTED PUBLIC WRITING

‘The Problem of the Personal,’ LGBTQ+ History Month Blog Post, English Faculty Website, University of Oxford. 2021. <https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/problem-personal>.

‘Myvillages: Setting the Table: Village Politics,’ Review. This Is Tomorrow. 2019. <http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/myvillages-setting-the-table-village-politics>.

‘Jerwood Staging Series 2019,’ Review. This Is Tomorrow. 2019. <http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/jerwood-staging-series-2019>.

‘On “Regarding Susan Sontag,” Another Gaze. 2016. <https://www.anothergaze.com/on-regarding-susan-sontag-nancy-kates-documentary/>.

‘The Labyrinth: Letter from California,’ The Eyot Magazine. 2016. <https://issuu.com/eyotmagazine/docs/eyot_one_pages/2>.

‘In praise of Americana: On the road with Ed Freeman,’ ISIS Magazine. 2015. <https://isismagazine.org.uk/2015/01/in-praise-of-americana-on-the-road-with-ed-freeman/>.