Publications:
“Reading Against Feeling: The Structure of Feeling, Practical Criticism, and Stuart Hall’s Migrant Study.” Cultural Critique (forthcoming).
“Revolutionizing Criticism: Collage as Feminist Critical Practice in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.” Feminist Modernist Studies. Volume 6, Issue 1, 2023.
East and West. Véhicule Press, 2018. [Poetry collection]
Selected Presentations:
“‘University Education for the Whole Nation’: the University Extension Movement and the New Literary Classroom.” ACLA, 15-17 March 2024, Montreal.
“Negative Democracy: Disinterestedness from Kant to Close Reading.” MLA, 5-8 January 2023, San Francisco.
“Disinterested States.” Roundtable on “Better State Forms.” MLA, 5-8 January 2023, San Francisco.
“The Democracy of Richard G. Moulton’s ‘Inductive Criticism.’” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, 24-27 March 2022, Salt Lake City.
“Stuart Hall, Edward Said, and Anticolonial Migrant Study.” ACCUTE,13-25 May 2022, Montreal.
My research explores the relationship between institutions of Anglophone literary education and literary criticism across British and global Anglophone contexts, from the late nineteenth century to the present. More broadly, I am interested in the politics of interpretation, the role of “the intellectual” in public life, postcolonial and anticolonial theories of reading, the history of leftwing thought and socialist movements, and the relationship between creative and critical practice. My dissertation, Public Disinterest: Criticism and Literary Education, 1873-2014, traces the mutual influences between left-progressive movements for public education and literary critical methodologies - from late Victorian experiments in universal access to university education to the anticolonial reading tactics of cultural theorist Stuart Hall.
My poetic practice extends my additional research interests in racial identity, gender, aesthetic form, and hemispheric colonial history. I am at work on a second poetry collection which appropriates the language of New World political constitutions to craft a semi-autobiographical lyric.
