American literature-20th century and contemporary, cultural studies
Selected Publications/Presentations
"Almost the Same, but Not Quite: Ironic Appropriation of For Whom the Bell Tolls in Carlos Bulosan's The Cry and the Dedication"-to be published in the upcoming Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdue University Press
"Introduction to 'The Social Significance of Booker T. Washington'"-published in the Du Bois Review, Cambridge University Press, fall 2011
"'Cannot Hear' or 'Cannot Speak': Negative Space, Agency and Identity in Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak' through Roy's The God of Small Things"-presented at the Southern Atlantic MLA conference, November 2010
"'Today Is the Day of Salvation': Black Nationalism and Violence-As-the-Answer in Martin Delaney's Blake, or the Huts of America and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth"-presented at Binghamton University's conference on transnational American studies, April 2010
"Finding Nirvana in the Center of Walden Pond: Ugly Post-Structuralist Affects from the Lives of Kurt Cobain and Henry David Thoreau"-presented at The George Washington University graduate student association conference, October 2010
