Book
While we conventionally define solitude as the absence of relation, Ruins presents solitude as a limiting measure of how we interact with and make meaning within a material world. Working to imagine an alternative to solitude, Ruins considers how this mode of embodiment intersects with knowledge production, exploring ways of being and knowing in the academy that refuse to perform or reproduce solitude. The book thus enacts a philosophy of togetherness, undergoing an intimacy of bodies, love, and writing such that solitude fractures. Through line breaks, exhaustion, interruption, and repetition, The Ruins of Solitude imagines a poeticity of selfhood and authorship uncontained by the tangible time of the present, unraveling familiar narratives and accounts of childbirth, considering the parallels between poststructuralist theory and the embodied materiality of relation.
Journal Articles
“‘Beside Myself’: Touch, Maternity, and the Question of Embodiment,” Feminist Theory 21.2 (2020): 141-155. (Winner, Joint First Place, Annual Essay Award)
“Between Belonging and Dwelling: The Hospitality of Remembering Babylon,” Cultural Studies Review 21.2 (2015): 205-222.
Chapter in an Edited Collection
“Jacques Derrida: The Mother as Figure of Thought,” Derrida and Africa: Essays on Derrida as a Figure in African Thought, edited by Grant Farred, Lexington Books, 2019: 33-45.
Contributions to Special Issues
Introduction: “The Responsibility of Awkwardness,” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 24.1 (2016): 1-8.
Roundtable Submission: “The Things that Save Us, Safundi (2025), 1–4.
Review & Interview
“The Language That Can Bear Thinking: An Interview with Grant Farred,” Diacritics 50.2 (2022): 52-63.
Review of Arne de Boever, Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel, College Literature 43.1 (2014): 155-156.