Throughout my body of work, you will find essays and visual pieces created for the sake of anti-Black resistance. My scholarship engages Black critical race theory with contemporary Black American literature and visual culture. I am primarily interested in conceptualizing the works of contemporary Black writers and artists as they build upon and repurpose the conceptual and political categories, as well as the aesthetic practices, of their literary and visual predecessors. I aim to contribute to these disciplines in a fashion that challenges white supremacy’s discourse and frameworks.

          My pedagogical commitments extend from my belief that students understand conceptual categories when they are exposed to a variety of creative and intellectual mediums; therefore, I practice and encourage interdisciplinary analyses. I aim to engage others, within academia and the public, with the rich body of Black American cultural texts and connect it to a wide range of discourses, such as Black feminism, Black existentialism, Afrofuturism and other Black critical theories.