Areas of Specialization
American literature
African American literature
Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
Queer theory
Cultural & media studies
20th-century print culture
Intellectual property law
Archival methods
Publications
“Rereading the Black Naturalist Novel: Ann Petry’s The Street and the Black Women Writers Series,” African American Review, 57.3 (2024): 301–322. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ .
“Introduction: I’m Not A Girl I’m A Genius” in On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ, ed. Alec Pollak (Feminist Press, July 2024), 1-38.
“On Joanna Russ,” The Paris Review, June 2024, https://www.theparisreview. .
“Hansberry Offstage: The Playwright’s Lesbian Writings,” The Yale Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Fall 2023), 61-75. https://yalereview.org/ .
“On Taking Woolf for Granted,” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 100 (Spring 2023), 3-4. https:// .
“Toni Morrison’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 47.1 (2022): 107–129. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/ .
“Fantasizing Gender in the J. Peterman Owner’s Manual,” Feminist Theory, 23.3 (2022): 327–350. https://doi.org/10.1177/ .
Awards & Honors
2023 Hazel Rowley Prize, Biographers International Organization
2023 Katharine Newman Best Essay Award, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
2022 Biddy Martin Graduate Prize, LGBT Studies, Cornell University
2021 Rosenthal Advancement of College of Arts and Sciences Women Graduate Research Award, Cornell University
2021 Moses Coit Tyler Essay Prize, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University
2020 Truman Capote Ph.D. Writer’s Award, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University
Grants/Sponsored Research
2024 LGBT Studies Research Fellowship, Yale University
2023 Barker Fellowship, Durham University
2023 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas–Austin
2022 Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
2022 Library Research Grant, Princeton University
2022 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, Harvard University
2022 Donald C. Gallup Fellowship, Yale University
2022 Spencer Research Library Travel Awards, University of Kansas
2021 Nebraska Cather Collaborative Grant, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2021 American Studies Program Graduate Research Grant, Cornell University
2021 Pearl & Otto Delikat Memorial Grant, Jewish Studies, Cornell University
2018 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon
