Curriculum Vitae
Current Employment
Academic
Appointments
2022-present
Manager, Chelsea Manning
Chief Operating Officer, Luminairity Communications, LLC
Writing Coach, Editor, Sensitivity Reader, Soft Knife, LLC
2019-2021
Assistant Professor of Literature
Bard High School Early College Manhattan, New York, NY
Education
Ph.D, Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Doctoral Certificates in Critical Theory and American Studies, City University of New York (CUNY)
M.A., Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
B.A. (Honors), Interdisciplinary Degree: Literature, Philosophy, Media Studies, Gallatin School of Individualized study, New York University
Academic Publications
2020
“Ugly Affects; Migritude and Black Mediterranean Counternarratives of Migrant Subjectivity” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory Special issue: Refugee Literatures: Migration, Crisis, and the Humanities Volume 50, Number 3, Fall 2020 pp. 376-404
“Introduction: Migritude from a Comparative Perspective,” co-written with Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M Nair, the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 54-66
“Activist By Default: An Interview with Igiaba Scego,” the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 157–166.
2019
“Mediterranean Borderlands,” Texte Zur Kunst Special Issue No. 114 “The Sea” (June 2019): 62-73
2018
“To be Young, Gifted, and Black: Sex, Power, and Female Subjectivity in Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal,” co-written with Yelizaveta Shapiro, Mai: Feminism and Visual Culture (Autumn 2018)
“Book Review: Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy: Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film by Graziella Parati,” g/s/i (Gender Sexuality Italy) Issue 5 (2018), August 31, 2018
2017
“Ambivalence and Security in the Anglo-American Empire: A Critical Dialogue with Professor Homi K Bhabha,” co-interviewed with Rahul K. Gairola. JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 47.1 (Winter 2017): 143-162
Invited Talks
2019
“Refugee Phenomenologies: Representations of Lost Time in Literature and Documentary Film,” MALS: Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Oct 11)
Teaching Experience
2022, LIMINAL LAB, Summer Session, June-July
CripLit4Spoonies II: Writing Chronic Illness and Disability
2022, LIMINAL LAB, Spring Session, March-April
CripLit for Spoonies: Readings in Trauma and Disability Literatures
2019-2022, Bard High School Early College Manhattan, Literature
First Year Seminar (in-person and online)
Desi Diasporic Literature and Pop Culture (online)
College Composition (online)
Readings in Intersectional Feminisms (in-person)
10th Grade World Literature (in-person and online)
Summer Scholars: First Year Seminar (in-person)
2021, LIMINAL LAB, Summer Session, July
DIARY: Process, Attention, Time, Audience (co-taught with MC Hyland)
2016-2019, The New School, Food Studies Department
Eating Identities: Food and Identity
Feasting Your Eyes: Food and Film (in-person and online)
2015-2018, Queens College, CUNY, English
English 110: College Writing
English 130: Writing About Literature
English 151W: Readings in British Literature
English 157W: Readings in Global Literature
English 162W: Literature and Place
English 170W: Introduction to Literary Study
English 244: Theory
2015, City College of New York (CUNY), College Now, Continuing Education Program
Workshop: “Writing for Success: Organizing an Essay and Building an Argument”
2013-2014, Townsend Harris High School, Queens College, CUNY Preparatory Program
Freshman Humanities Senior Colloquium
2011-2014, City College of New York, CUNY, English
World Humanities II
Writing for the Humanities
Representative American Writers of the Twentieth Century
Introduction to Literary Study: Genre and Difference
Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar: What is Europe?
Honors, Fellowships & Awards
2021
University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award
2018-2019
Dissertation Showcase Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dissertation Fellowship, Dean K. Harrison, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Fellowship, CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies (CUNY BA)
2017-2018
Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dissertation Fellowship, Dean K. Harrison, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2016–2018
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Queens College, CUNY
2016
University Student Senate Graduate Mentoring Scholarship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Presidential Research Fund Travel Grant Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2014–2015
Robert A. Day Fellowship for Research, Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Fellow, The Writers’ Institute, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2014–2015
Writing Fellow, Writing Across the Curriculum Program, Brooklyn College, CUNY
2011–2013
University Award in recognition of academic proficiency, Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2010-2015
Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Languages
English (full professional proficiency)
Italian (full professional proficiency)
Bengali (native spoken proficiency)
Spanish (intermediate proficiency)
Furnished Upon Request
Administrative Experience and Service
Conference Participation and Organization
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