Department of English

My interests lie in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American and African American literature. In my research, I place emphasis on black cultural production and modernisms, with an emphasis on Black Interwar Period aesthetics, ephemera, radical politics, affect, and intimate formations. My dissertation project explores how African American love and romance narratives use coupling as a site to ideate on the antagonisms in turn-of-the-twentieth-century radical expression. I examine how black writers sought new formal mechanisms to convey intimacy through the absence and distance amid African Americans’ early-twentieth-century theorizations on public and political subjectivity.