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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 York College/CUNY, English Department
Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature (2012-present)
Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature (2006-2012)
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)
- Editor, sx salon: a small axe literary platform, Spring 2010 – present
- Director, York College Honors Program, Fall 2012 – Spring 2014
- Managing Editor, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Fall 2007 – Fall 2012
