• PhD, Comparative Literature & French, UC Santa Barbara

• Animal studies
• Caribbean studies
• Ecocriticism and the environmental humanities
• Epistemology
• Gender studies
• De/postcolonial studies
• Narrative studies
• Translation studies
• Science fiction studies
• Urban studies

Book project:

• Decolonial Ecologies in Francophone Caribbean Literature: From Messiahs to Mangroves

Selected Articles:

• “A Conversation with Stephanie Saulter: Adaptation and Resilience in the Multicultural Sci-Fi City.” Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance: Cities Under Stress, eds. Lanigan, Lappälä, and Prieto. Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
• “Non-Anthropocentric Ecologies in Jacques Stéphen Alexis’s Romancero aux étoiles and Yanick Lahens’s Bain de lune.” Journal of Haitian Studies 28.1 (2022)
• “Eco-Epistemology and Eschatology: Examining the Savior Complex in Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Les neuf consciences du Malfini.” French Forum 45.2 (2020)

Selected Presentations:

• “Creole Creativity as Plantationocene Resistance: A Postcolonial-Ecofeminist Reading of Patrick Chamoiseau’s Le Vent du Nord dans les fougères glacées.” “Beyond the Anthropocene: New Perspectives in Postcolonial Environmental Humanities.” The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Montréal, March 14-17, 2024
• “Where Sci-Fi Meets Cli-Fi: Reimagining the City in Caribbean Science Fiction.” Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) 3rd International Conference, “Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal,” UC Santa Barbara, February 17-19, 2022
• “The Haunting Past: Trauma, Time, and (Post)Memory in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder.” The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 29th Annual Conference, University of Toronto, March 29-30, 2019