About Me
My Ph.D. in English Language and Literature is from Cornell University. Currently, I am Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Swarthmore College. I am interested in the practices and methods by which we invent legibility and justice against what we are given as possible. This interest has found me working across disciplines and genres (philosophy, theory, writing studies, postcolonial and world literature) and has resulted in projects that don’t quite fit what I expected academic publications to be. I love this mis-fit. It has resulted in a book, articles, a podcast, and a developing vocabulary for following love and loss. Read about my book and podcast below and look here for my articles and book chapters.
Books
My first book, The Ruins of Solitude: Maternity at the Limits of Academic Discourse (punctum books, 2024), is an experiment of trust. What if I have faith in my writing and my reach for language? Will this become legible as an intervention into philososphical projects? Closely describing my embodied relation both with high theory and my infant daughter, I make legible the easily dismissed practices by which I resist certain limitations of knowledge production. Staying with what doesn’t “belong,” I refuse what I theorize as the “solitude” of “knowledge.” You can find this book here (for free!) but please consider buying it or making a donation to punctum, subscribing to their newsletter, or checking out their catalog. My second book project, Lost Philosophy, follows the way thinking and love happen, at odds with order and organization. To do so, the book builds an archive of staying and losing that generates the possibility of a language (or a way of using words) that supports our ways of being.
Podcast
The Many Academies Podcast interviews writers, thinkers, and scholars whose creative and transformative practices of writing and publication push back against the conventions of knowledge production. This project is also a work of trust. If we leap, I argue, we create the nets and networks that will catch us. And so I interview people who have a fearlessness and boldness of thought and creation that priotizes their connections with others and the potential of hospitality. The first season is complete. Read more and listen to the first six episodes here.