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Teaching and Research Interests
- Caribbean Literature
- Digital Humanities
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Postcolonial Literature and Theory
- World Anglophone Literature
Academic Appointments
2006 – present City University of New York (CUNY)
- York College/CUNY, English Department
- Professor, 2019-present
- Associate Professor, 2012-2019
- Assistant Professor, 2006-2012
- CUNY Graduate Center, English and Digital Humanities (2018-present)
2016 – 2017 Williams College, Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor
2008 – 2009 Johns Hopkins University, Center for Africana Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow
2002 – 2006 Rutgers University, English Department, Part-Time Lecturer and Graduate Assistant
2004 – 2006 Rutgers University, Women’s and Gender Studies, Part-time Lecturer
2002 – 2003 The College of New Jersey, Women’s Studies Department, Adjunct Instructor
Educational Background
Ph.D., English, Rutgers University
– Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies
M.A., Literature, Florida International University
B.S., Communications, (Magna Cum Laude) University of Miami
Dissertation
“Defining Madnesses: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature”
Committee: Brent Hayes Edwards (Director), Abena P.A. Busia, Marianne DeKoven, and Simon Gikandi (Outside Reader, Princeton University)
Academic and Professional Service (selected)
- Academic Co-Director, Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, CUNY
- Editor, sx salon: a small axe literary platform, 2010 – 2019
- Director, York College Honors Program, 2012 – 2014
- Managing Editor, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2007 – 2012