B.A. English, Creative Writing Concentration, University of Maine
M.A. English Language and Literature, University of Washington
Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Washington

I teach classes on writing, American race and ethnic studies, feminist, gender, and queer/sexuality studies, literature, film, and visual art. My main teaching objective is to introduce learners to concepts and cultural texts that allow them to understand the variety of ways that power shapes our understanding of the social world, including our understanding of both others and ourselves.

My research informs heavily my commitment to engaging students in cultural analysis as away to learn to build arguments and understand their social world. I earned my PhD from the University of Washington. While there, I also was a Public Scholar fellow and was also part of two collaborative research collectives through the Simpson Center for the Humanities that informed my research and thinking. The Race/Knowledge Project explored the relationship between cultural work and the neoliberal university for understanding race and racialization while Queer Worlds focused on the way that queer scholarship shifts as it becomes institutionalized.