I am Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I received my doctorate in English Literature from the University of Chicago. My scholarship focuses on Anglophone postcolonial and global South literature, environmental justice, climate change, and the environmental humanities. My research generally focuses on the connections between aesthetics and politics, as well as apocalypse, infrastructure, historic and concrete utopias, genre, and the Anthropocene. My research has been published or is forthcoming in Interventions, Modern Fiction Studies, ISLE, Ariel, Environmental Humanities and other venues.

 

In December 2020 I was featured as Scholar of the Month by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).

At the University of Illinois I teach a wide variety of classes for English majors and non-majors, including courses on climate change, the Anthropocene, speculative fiction, postcolonial literature and theory, critical theory, and infrastructure.

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