Hello!

I am an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at a small liberal arts college in Lexington, VA. Broadly, I situate my current research at the intersection of Black Studies and Humor Studies. I am working on a book manuscript that brings this together. Tentatively titled Laughing at the End of the World (under contract with Duke University Press), this project examines the cultural politics and critical traditions that structure the racialization of laughter. For more on this, please see here.

From 2016-2018, I was a Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Pembroke Center, where I taught two courses in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program: one on American regionalism and another on laughter, resistance, and African American literature. I received my PhD from Tufts University’s Department of English in 2016. I am a Mellon Mays Fellow and a Posse Scholar. I dream of one day having an avocado tree that fruits.