I am currently the CFD Postdoctoral Fellow at Hollins University where I teach in the department of English & Creative Writing. I was previously the 2023-2024 Jackie McLean Dissertation Completion Fellow at the University of Hartford. I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University and an MA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University.
My research is at the intersection of the environmental humanities, literature, and philosophy. I have published over a dozen articles on topics ranging from eco-phenomenology to deconstruction to psychoanalytic theory and wrote my dissertation on the existential and psychoanalytic conceptions of repetition in transnational American literature and a master’s thesis offering a preliminary ecological interpretation of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
I am currently following three core lines of research: (1) an investigation of the failure of masculine subjectivity in 20th century literature from the United States and Latin America, (2) an exploration of how contemporary climate fiction deals with our anxieties about the future through inhuman perspectives and the representation of deep time whether backwards or forwards, (3) an environmental critique of the anthropocentric relational ethics of Levinas to make it more open to the non-human (or other-than-human) Other, pursued particularly through a comparison of his work with the lived experiences of Indigenous animism.