About

I received a PhD in comparative literature from Emory University in December of 2019. At Emory, I taught writing-intensive courses in several departments. One seminar introduced students to religious, sociological, and literary understandings of community, preparing students to research contemporary social groups.

After leaving Emory, I taught writing, world literature, and interdisciplinary studies as a lecturer in the Department of English and World Languages at Augusta University. Most recently, I was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech. My first-year seminars exposed students to critiques of progress developed by philosophers, social critics, environmental activists, and other thinkers.

As a researcher, I have published in Religion and the Arts, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. My dissertation explained why most leftwing thinkers and artists have disavowed tragedy and tragic mentalities. From there, I traced an alternative tradition including figures like Andrei Platonov, Jean Genet, and Amiri Baraka, all of whom wrote tragedies that alienated them from socialist political movements. I’ve also served as a researcher for the Letters of Samuel Beckett for more than a decade, and I am currently on the advisory committee that maintains an online database of the author’s letters.