Specializations:
19th C. American Literature
African-American Literature
Critical & Cultural Theory
Cultural Studies
Academic History:
M.A., English, Rice University
M.Div., Wesley Theological Seminary
M.T.S., Wesley Theological Seminary, (Thesis: All We Have is Flesh: Womanist Spirituality and the Literary Imagination of Octavia Estelle Butler)
B.A., English Literature and Language, Marymount University
Awards Received:
Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Rice University, 2020
Dissertation Title:
AnteBody: Blackmaternal Flesh and the Problem of the Human in American Literature, 1850-Present