About

I am a multi-disciplinary researcher, writer, and educator based in Chicago, IL and an incoming Ph.D. student in English Literature at Loyola University Chicago.

My research is broadly concerned with how tactile sensation mediates and shapes ontology and structures of dominance in the United States through the textual analysis of contemporary American cultural productions.  My theoretical frameworks exist at the intersection of cultural studies, phenomenology, Black studies, Black feminist thought, critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, queer theory, and trans theory. 

I conduct additional research in educational philosophy, particularly focusing on critical pedagogy, anti-carceral pedagogy, and the presence of eros in the classroom. Other research interests include autobiography and memoir, conceptions of the self, film studies, decolonial theory, and affect theory.