Teaching

My Spring 2024 courses are Approaches to Literature (two sections) and a First Year Seminar on Afrofuturism. In Summer 2024 I will teach LIT 499 Dystopian Literature.

Research

• walking and talking trees in Anglo-American speculative fiction
• early modern British poetry

Forthcoming articles:

“Difference in Narnia: Giants, Dwarfs, and Others”

“The Green Apocalypse and Empathy for Vegetal Life”

“Gender Fluidity and Violence in Edward Herbert’s ‘Echo to a Rock’”

“‘Black Lord Herbert’ and the Construction of Race”

Latest good read

Imarisha and brown, editors. Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Latest good movie or series

Beef