Research
I’m a scholar of hemispheric American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
My primary interests include poetry and poetics, transnational cultural practices, economic history, and literary translation.
Current Projects
Neoliberal Visions: Poetry, Mysticism, and Crisis in the Americas (Scholarly Monograph)
Neoliberal Visions examines the figure of the visionary poet in relation to the global neoliberal turn in the 1970s and early 1980s. Taking a comparativist approach, I argue that the trope of the mystical or visionary seer serves as a tool that poets from various backgrounds deploy to make sense of the social, economic, and political changes wrought by neoliberalism, and to preserve revolutionary or utopian impulses in a period of attenuated political potentiality. From Bajan poet Kamau Brathwaite to Chilean artists Raúl Zurita and Cecilia Vicuña to U.S. writers Frank Stanford and Hannah Weiner, this book reads an ontology of crisis through experimental poetry from across the hemisphere, advancing an alternate genealogy of the neoliberal subject.
Infrastructural Poetics
(Edited Volume)
A special issue of College Literature, co-edited with Dr. Claire Farley (UCLA), “Infrastructural Poetics” examines the undertheorized relationship between infrastructural studies and poetic form. Forthcoming Fall 2026.
Scholarly Writing
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“From the Hounfort to Trench Town: Kamau Brathwaite’s Visions of Labor in the Neoliberal Caribbean.” English Literary History [Accepted, forthcoming].
“A Visionary Geography: Raúl Zurita and the Problem of the Land.” Cultural Dynamics 34.3 (2022): 173-194. https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740221112968.
Book Reviews (Selected)
“Review of Ignacio Infante’s A Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism.” Modern Language Notes. [Under Review].
“Review of Sara Nicholson’s April.” Harvard Review. Online. November 2023.
“Review of Kevin Holden’s Pink Noise.” The Colorado Review. Online. June 2023.
“Review of Benjamin Lee’s Poetics of Emergence: Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry.” ASAP/Review. Online. February 2021.
Conference Presentations
Recent Panels Chaired
Organizer, “Translating Latin American Poetry: A Reading and Discussion.” New Orleans Poetry Festival. New Orleans, LA. April 2025.
Organizer, “Infrastructural Verse.” American Comparative Literary Conference (ACLA). Montreal, QC. March 2024.
Recent Papers Given
“Araña, Araignée, Ñandu: Place and the Untranslatable in Erín Moure’s Mar Paraguayo.” Modern Literature Association (MLA), New Orleans, LA. January 2025.
“Teaching Bad Translation: Araki Yasusada in the Classroom.” Modern Literature Association (MLA), New Orleans, LA. January 2025.
“O Caviar! Ronald Johnson’s Cookbook Poetics.” Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Chicago, IL. November 2024.
“‘Two Separate and Distinct Hells:’ Industrial Labor and Its Afterlives in the Global Periphery.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Virtual conference. June 2022.