PhD Student
(First year)
Education
MFA., Creative Writing, Poetry, Northwestern University, 2021
- MFA Thesis: Black Women Standing Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water
MA., English Literature, Northwestern University, 2021
- MA Thesis: “On Lyric (In)Capacity in Contemporary African American Poetry”
Research Interests
- Literary Theory
- Aesthetics
- Psychoanalysis
- 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy
- Black Ontology
- Black Literature
- Prosody, & Poetics
- Philosophy of Race
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record
- English 202 – Introduction to Creative Writing, Northwestern University, 2020
- English 41 – Introduction to Poetry, California State University, Fresno, 2017
- English 5A/5B – Composition, California State University, Fresno, 2016-2017
Teaching Assistant
- English 206 – Introduction to Poetry, Northwestern University, 2019 (Assistant to Averill Curdy)
Books
Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water forthcoming Haymarket Books 2024