Curriculum vitae
Appointments
2019-present
Princeton University • Department of English & Program in American Studies • Assistant Professor
Fall 2021
University of Pennsylvania • Visual Studies Program • Visiting Scholar
2016-2019
Princeton University • Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts • Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow
2014-2016
Duke University • Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies • Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate
Princeton University • Department of English & Program in American Studies • Assistant Professor
Fall 2021
University of Pennsylvania • Visual Studies Program • Visiting Scholar
2016-2019
Princeton University • Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts • Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow
2014-2016
Duke University • Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies • Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate
Education
2014
University of California, Berkeley • English • Ph.D.
2006
Princeton University • History • M. A.
2003
Harvard University • History & Literature • A. B. • Magna cum laude
University of California, Berkeley • English • Ph.D.
2006
Princeton University • History • M. A.
2003
Harvard University • History & Literature • A. B. • Magna cum laude
Books
The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of
Racial Capitalism
Forthcoming July 2022, New York University Press, America and the Long 19th Century series
*New York University Press Featured Author
Magical Habits
2021, Duke University Press, Writing Matters! series
*Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Winner
Forthcoming July 2022, New York University Press, America and the Long 19th Century series
*New York University Press Featured Author
Magical Habits
2021, Duke University Press, Writing Matters! series
*Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Winner
Teaching Fields
Nineteenth and
twentieth-century American literature and culture • American Studies • African
American literature and history • Latinx literature and history • cultural
studies • historiography and theories of the archive • photography criticism
and theory • history of photography • law and literature • race, science, and
visuality • visual culture
Selected Invited Talks
November 2021
“What’s in a Face?” Visual Culture Colloquium, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College.
October 2021
Discussion of Magical Habits, Profs. D. Padilla Peralta and S. Chihaya’s “Humanistic Perspectives on the Arts: Thinking in Public, Writing for the World,” Princeton University.
September 2021
Discussion of Magical Habits for Prof. K. Tongson’s course “Race, Gender, Sexuality and Food Cultures,” University of Southern California.
September 2021
Discussion of Magical Habits for Prof. J. Namakkal’s senior thesis seminar, Duke University.
July 2021
“Critical Creative Praxis.” Virtual Coffee Hour for graduate students hosted by Prof. K. Bain, Tufts University.
February 2021
“Aphorism as Promise.” Emily Carroll ’99 Carleton Lecture, English Department, Bates College.
“What’s in a Face?” Visual Culture Colloquium, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College.
October 2021
Discussion of Magical Habits, Profs. D. Padilla Peralta and S. Chihaya’s “Humanistic Perspectives on the Arts: Thinking in Public, Writing for the World,” Princeton University.
September 2021
Discussion of Magical Habits for Prof. K. Tongson’s course “Race, Gender, Sexuality and Food Cultures,” University of Southern California.
September 2021
Discussion of Magical Habits for Prof. J. Namakkal’s senior thesis seminar, Duke University.
July 2021
“Critical Creative Praxis.” Virtual Coffee Hour for graduate students hosted by Prof. K. Bain, Tufts University.
February 2021
“Aphorism as Promise.” Emily Carroll ’99 Carleton Lecture, English Department, Bates College.
Selected Conference Presentations
November 2019
Respondent for Roundtable, “The Airing of Grievances: Grievance Studies and its Discontents.” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hawaii.
November 2018
“Aphorisms and the Unmarked,” A Roundtable on the Occasion of the 25th anniversary of Peggy Phelan’s Unmarked. American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
March 2018
“Uncontrolled Habits: Delsarte’s System of Expression.” Climates of the Will panel. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Respondent for Roundtable, “The Airing of Grievances: Grievance Studies and its Discontents.” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hawaii.
November 2018
“Aphorisms and the Unmarked,” A Roundtable on the Occasion of the 25th anniversary of Peggy Phelan’s Unmarked. American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
March 2018
“Uncontrolled Habits: Delsarte’s System of Expression.” Climates of the Will panel. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
In Service to the Fields
2021-present
Co-editor with Saidiya Hartman, Erica Rand, Kathleen Stewart, Writing Matters! series, Duke University Press
2021-present
Executive Committee, MS Visual Culture Forum, Modern Language Association
2021-present
Organizing Committee, Law & Literature Works-in-Progress Workshop, University of Toronto Law School
Co-editor with Saidiya Hartman, Erica Rand, Kathleen Stewart, Writing Matters! series, Duke University Press
2021-present
Executive Committee, MS Visual Culture Forum, Modern Language Association
2021-present
Organizing Committee, Law & Literature Works-in-Progress Workshop, University of Toronto Law School
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