Education

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests

• 19-Century African American Literature
• Frederick Douglass
• 19-Century U.S. Literature
• 19-Century Aesthetic Theories
• Law and Literature
• Critical Race Theory

Current & Recently Taught Courses:

CLS371 Law & Disorder in Literature
ENG550 History, Form, & Ideology
LIT165  American Outsiders
LIT204  Black Women Writers in America
LIT207  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
ENG400 Racial Colorblindness in U.S. Law and Literature

Selected Publications

"Thinking Through Things: James McCune Smith's 'The Washerwoman.'" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 59.2 (2013): 291-328.

"Surface and Stasis: Re-Reading Slave Narrative via The History of Mary Prince." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 36.2 (2013): 298-311.