Specialties
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
“The Ethics of the Adjoining: Reading Multiplicity in Beloved.” On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).
“Mutual Exclusion, Oscillation, and the Ethics of Projection.” Narrative 16.3 (October, 2008).
“Muzungu.” Callaloo 30.4 (Winter, 2007). Selected to be in The Best American Short Stories 2009, ed. Alice Sebold. Nominated for the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing.
“Repetition and the Ethics of Suspended Reading in American Psycho.” Critique 51.1 (Fall 2009).
“Of Being Bridge.” The Comparatist 36 (May 2012).
“Bottoms Up.” Tin House 51: Weird Science (Spring 2012).
Current Research
Seven Modes of Uncertainty. Forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2014.
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2013
| 180N/1 | The Novel: The American Novel Since 1900 |
American Literature Novel |
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| 180N/101 -- discussion section |
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| 180N/103 -- discussion section |
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| 180N/104 -- discussion section |
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| 180N/105 -- discussion section |
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| H195A/1 | Honors Course |
Literary Theory Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Fall, 2012
| 125E/1 | The Contemporary Novel: The Novel Since 2000 |
British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature Novel |
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| 143A/2 | Short Fiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |