Areas of Specialization
- American literature
- African American literature
- Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
- Queer theory
- Cultural & media studies
- 20th-century print culture
- Intellectual property law
- Archival methods
Publications
- 鈥淩ereading the Black Naturalist Novel: Ann Petry鈥檚 The Street and the Black Women Writers Series,鈥� African American Review, 57.3 (2024): 301鈥�322.聽.
- 鈥淚ntroduction: I鈥檓 Not A Girl I鈥檓 A Genius鈥� in On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ, ed. Alec Pollak (Feminist Press, July 2024), 1-38.
- 鈥淥n Joanna Russ,鈥� The Paris Review, June 2024, .
- 鈥淗ansberry Offstage: The Playwright鈥檚 Lesbian Writings,鈥� The Yale Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Fall 2023), 61-75. .
- 鈥淥n Taking Woolf for Granted,鈥� Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 100 (Spring 2023), 3-4. .
- 鈥淭oni Morrison鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God,鈥� MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 47.1 (2022): 107鈥�129. .
- 鈥淔antasizing Gender in the J. Peterman Owner鈥檚 Manual,鈥� Feminist Theory, 23.3 (2022): 327鈥�350. .
Awards & Honors
- 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize, Biographers International Organization
- 2023 Katharine Newman Best Essay Award, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- 2022 Biddy Martin Graduate Prize, LGBT Studies, Cornell University
- 2021 Rosenthal Advancement of College of Arts and Sciences Women Graduate Research Award, Cornell University
- 2021 Moses Coit Tyler Essay Prize, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University
- 2020 Truman Capote Ph.D. Writer鈥檚 Award, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University
Grants/Sponsored Research
- 2024 LGBT Studies Research Fellowship, Yale University
- 2023 Barker Fellowship, Durham University
- 2023 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas鈥揂ustin
- 2022 Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- 2022 Library Research Grant, Princeton University
- 2022 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, Harvard University
- 2022 Donald C. Gallup Fellowship, Yale University
- 2022 Spencer Research Library Travel Awards, University of Kansas
- 2021 Nebraska Cather Collaborative Grant, University of Nebraska鈥揕incoln
- 2021 American Studies Program Graduate Research Grant, Cornell University
- 2021 Pearl & Otto Delikat Memorial Grant, Jewish Studies, Cornell University
- 2018 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon
