Position Title
Recent PhD Lecturer
W 11-1
R 1-2
Appointment by request
Research interests:
Medieval Literature, Racial Capitalism, Geography, Travel Narratives, Compendia, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature, Monstrosity and Marginality, Cannibalism, Genre, Global Waste Trade
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis Davis, CA
Ph.D. English Literature
Dissertation: Bountiful and Barren: Speculative (Re)presentations of Racial Capitalism in the Middle Ages
Hunter College New York, NY
B.A. English Literature; Minor in Cultural Anthropology
Honors thesis: “Othello: The Native Cannibal and the Eurocannibal”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medieval Literature, Racial Capitalism, Geography, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature, Travel Narratives, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Monstrosity and Marginality, Cannibalism, Genre, Global Waste Trade
PUBLICATIONS
“Medieval Compendia and the Origins of Racial Capitalism,” Ethnicity and Race in the Literatures of the Global West, ca. 500–1500, ed. Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Jonathan Correa Reyes, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.
“Mandeville’s Racializing Prism: Race and Time in Medieval Speculative Fiction,” Mandeville at 700: New Essays on Mandeville’s Travels, ed. Sarah Salih and Tom White, King’s College London Medieval Studies, forthcoming 2024.
Review of “World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture,” by Louise D’Arcens, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Comitatus 54, no. 1 (2023): 221–23.