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Graduate Comparative Literature Students

Aimee Trivino

Aimee Trivino (she/they) is a first year master’s student at SUNY Binghamton in the Department of Comparative Literature. They were born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and their ancestral homelands are in coastal Ecuador. Their studies mainly focus on Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and migration studies.Their research is about Central American and coastal Ecuadorian communities, focusing on how current events and globalization shape these identities. They use music, written testimonies, pop culture, colonial era documents, and archeological records to track the histories of these communities. They also focus on community-engaged projects, bridging their work in immigration advocacy and housing organizing with community partners to address challenges facing Ecuadorian and Central American diasporic communities. 

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Alex Huiqiang Dong

Alex Huiqiang Dong (he/him) is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at ������Ƶ, SUNY. He has been teaching as a lecturer at Shandong University of Arts (China) years before he came to SUNY. His primary research interests include feminist film theories, Chinese film, world literature, gender politics, psychoanalytic theories. He is now examining the “gaze” in Chinese women’s film and the gender politics in Chinese film and media. He teaches World Literature I and II, Literature and Psychology at Binghamton.

Research Interests:

• Feminist film theories
• Psychoanalysis
• World Literature
• Chinese women’s film
• Film and media studies

Advisor:

Dr. Jeroen Gerrits

Publications:

• “Indigenous Feminist Frameworks: Cultural and Historical Trajectories of  Chinese Women’s Cinema.” Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Literature, Language and Culture Development, 2025. Boston, USA.
• “Visualizing the Pain of Female Existence: A Case Study of Mama (2022)”. Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Linguistics and Literature, 2025. Fukuoka, Japan

Conferences and invited talks: 

“Non-confrontational Resistance: Absurd Narrative and Female Humor in Send Me to the Clouds (2019)” at The12th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Arts, 2025, Bangkok, Thailand

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Atousa Kaviani

Atousa Kaviani (She/Her) is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature department at SUNY Binghamton. She joined the department with an M.A. and B.A. in French language and literature. Her main focus is film studies and digital humanities. Atousa is working on women’s representation in films and social media platforms. She also researches diaspora and displacement narratives and has been teaching courses on this area. Atousa teaches another course titled Superhero films & contemporary culture.

Research Interest:

• Film & media studies
• Gender & women’s studies
• Diaspora and displacement narratives

Advisor:

Dr. Jeroen Gerrits

Publications:

• “#MahsaAmini (#مهساامینی) and #ZanZendegiAzadi (#زن_زندگی_آزادی) forming a new discourse of feminism and women’s right among Iranian users”, Journal of the Middle East and Africa (forthcoming)
• “From #MeToo to #WomanLifeFreedom: Some Frames of the Reality of the Iranian Women; A Seldom-heard Feminist Movement for Peace Throughout History” in Women on the Pilgrimage to Peace Edited by Anna Hamling (2024)

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• 2025, Project Presentation: “Diversity in Literature Class: Personal Narratives Matter” at MLA Annual Convention, New Orleans.
• 2024,“Scenes from the Inside: Iran through Farhadi's Camera” at 121th PAMLA Conference, Palm Springs.
• 2024, “Reuniting Ethnic Communities and Recognizing their Identity Through #MahsaAmini Uprising in Iran” 55Th North East Modern Languages Association, Boston.
• 2023, “Iranian Women through Social Media and Iranian Cinema: A New Representation and Perspective” at the 120th PAMLA Conference, Portland.
• 2023, “Women and Violence: The image of Feminine figure in Iranian Contemporary Cinema” NeMLA’s 54th convention, Niagara Falls.

Honors & Awards:

• 2024, Received Research Grant Award, Association for the Studies of the Middle East & North Africa.                                                                                    
• 2023, Received Graduate Student Research Fellowship Gregory Seferian Memorial, SUNY Binghamton Comparative  Literature Department.  
• 2023, Received Modern Languages Association Certificate in Reading & Writing Pedagogy 

Education:

• M.A. French Language and Literature, Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran.
• B.A. French Language and Literature, Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran.

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Christopher Southward

Christopher Southward is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at ������Ƶ. Between 2013 and 2025, he executed a ten-thousand-hour apprenticeship in studio ceramics emphasizing artistic practice, teaching, and community service in order to formulate a response to Herbert Marcuse’s riddled political-aesthetic notion of “depth” – the central provocation of his dissertation underway. Short-titled Ten Thousand Shards, this project explores the technical, material, and spiritual valences of the hand-tool relation as the radical basis of human creative agency, authentic experience, and the production of sheer value. Assembled around the structural-functional logic of handicraft and deploying ceramic wheel-throwing as its methodology, it proceeds in quest of creative and restorative social praxis against the increasingly abstractive tendencies of the hyperindustrial age.

Research Interests:

• Praxis, poiesis, and philosophy of technology;
• Imagination, intuition, and creativity
• Form, content, and expression
• Process, technique, and production
• Time, space, and perception
• Experimental film, photography, and speculative fiction

Advisors:

• Luiza Franco Moreira, William Haver, and Randy Friedman

Publications & Awards in Japanese-English Translation:

• Fiction and art criticism in ArtIT, InTranslation/The Brooklyn Rail, and The Literary Review;
• Manuscripts of work by Tsuji Hitonari, Nishida Kitarō, Miki Kiyoshi, Kitaōji Rosanjin, and Katayama Hiroko underway;
• PEN/Heim Translation Fund for Acacia, by Tsuji Hitonari, PEN America Center, New York, NY, 2008;
• Work samples available at The ORB @ ������Ƶ

Conferences & Invited Talks:

• “Aesthetics in Nishida Kitarō’s Absolute-Contradictory Self-Identity,” European Network of Japanese Philosophy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
• “Triumvirate of Power: Capital, State, and Subject,” Re-Production Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, ������Ƶ, NY, 2011
• “Existential Loneliness, Or Solitude as Foundation in Murakami Haruki’s ‘Tony Takitani’,” Crossroads Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010 

Exhibitions, Productions, Curations, & Commissions:

Ceramics

• Southward Ceramics | Studio Brand New, Taos and Santa Fe, NM
• Corinth, MS, 2019-2025
• Alberto Zalma Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
• Ohori’s Coffee Roasters, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
• Paseo Pottery, Santa Fe, NM, 2020-2022
• Honorable Mention, Residency Proposal, Center of Contemporary Artists, Grottaglie, Italy, 2021
• Desert Sage Arts Collective, Taos, NM, 2019
• Taos Clay Studio & Gallery, Taos, NM, 2017-2018
• Good Dirt Clay Studio, Athens, GA, 2017
• Clayscapes Pottery, Syracuse, NY, 2015
• Atomic Tom’s, Binghamton, NY, 2015
• Roberson Clayworks, Binghamton, NY, 2013-2015
• Selected work images available on Instagram: @studiobrandnewcorinth and on  The ORB @ ������Ƶ

Digital Travel Photography & Experimental Film:

• We May Never Know This Light Again, 2012-Present
• Bluish, Or the Secret and Luminous Lives of Things, Connelly Gallery, Binghamton, NY, 2015
• You Have Seen Nothing in the Orient, w/Rui Gomes Coelho, Tranquil Bar & Bistro, Binghamton, NY, 2014

B/W Darkroom Photography:

• Untitled: Local Color Coffee, Seattle, WA, 2004
• One Day, When I Was Lost, BEMIS Foundation Annual Juried Art Competition, Seattle, WA, 2003
• PhotoCloset | Pound Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2001-2003
• Bauhaus books + coffee, Seattle, WA, 2001
• Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, 2000

Spoken Word

• Basement Nation Arts Collective, Seattle, WA, 2000-2003

Education:

• MA, Philosophy, ������Ƶ, 2012
• BA, Japanese Language & Literature, University of Washington, 2000
• Study Abroad, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1997-1998
• Self-directed Japanese language study during U.S. Military service in Japan, 1991-1994
• BA-equivalent, High Honors, Russian, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, 1990

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Connor Grogan

Connor Grogan [he/him] is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. His research interests include 20th century french metaphysics, erotics, and poetics. He’s currently examining specific stylistic techniques for argumentation which might help us to think differently the relationship between literature, literary criticism, and texts that exist at the border where those two endeavors seem to pass into one another.

Research Interests:

• Continental Philosophy
• Literary Criticism
• Experimental/Hybrid textuality
• Poetry
• Erotics

Advisor:

Jeroen Gerrits

Publications: 

• “My Father, The Outside, Technologies of Seeing: Notes Towards a Cabinet of Faces.” Spectra 9.1 (2022): https://spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21061/spectra.v9i1.202

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• “Demon Apertures: Notes Towards a Blueprint,” for Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders; graduate conference in English at ������Ƶ. (2025)
• “Jacob Wrestled: Carnal Static & the Erotics of Translation” for the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. (2024)
• “Friendship, or Attentive Affliction: Love in the Work of Simone Weil,” for Me Sobra Corazón – A Heart So Big; a Fulbright Panel. (2020)

Honors & Awards:

• ������Ƶ Comparative Literature Dissertation Year Fellowship (2026)
• ������Ƶ Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025)

Education:

• BA in Poetry — Hampshire College (2015)
• MA in Comparative Literature — ������Ƶ (2021)

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Daniel Monzingo

Daniel (he/him) is a second-year PhD student in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton.

Research Interests:

• Short-form fiction
• Hispanophone and Lusophone literatures
• Anomaly tales
• Contemporary/speculative eco-fiction
• Magical realism

Education:

• BA
• MEd
• MFA

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Elysa Kooijman

Elysa Kooijman (they/she) is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY). They hold two MAs obtained in The Netherlands — one in film and photography, and one in philosophy.

Their research and artistic practice have an interdisciplinary and feminist approach to a ll that encroaches on, and destabilises, the subject — focussing on such concepts as the uncanny, the sublime, time, grief, and abjection. Elysa specifically “enjoys” analysing contemporary horror movies.

Their work has been seen in EYE Film Museum Amsterdam, CW*IP Antwerp, and V2 Rotterdam, among other places.

Research Interest:

• Psychoanalysis
• Phenomenology
• 20th Century Continental Philosophy
• Film and TV Studies

Art Publications:

• “Tackling Inequality in the Rotterdam(se) Creative Scene”, in KONTRA Labs at WORM Rotterdam (2021) 
• “Dicht bij mij vandaan” in GUP New Photo Talent 2020 (2019)
• “Dicht bij mij vandaan” (2019)
• “When you feel like you might die, call me” (2018)
• “PRJCT5” in Unicef Nederland (2017) 

Art Exhibitions:

• “RIXT” at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, The Netherlands (2022)
• “A Planck Star is Not Stable” at EYE Film Museum, The Netherlands (2021)
• “A Planck Star is Not Stable” at WORM Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2021)
• “Then I Started Looking Back” at EYE Film Museum, The Netherlands (2020)
• “Dicht bit mij vandaan” at Westergasfabriek, The Netherlands (2019)

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• “Destabilising Gazes: abjection and its connection to the gaze in horror cinema” at Conference Crossing the Boundaries, ������Ƶ (SUNY), USA (2025, March)

• “The Double Bind of the Philosophical Canon” at Conference by Women* in Philosophy (CW*IP), Antwerp University, Belgium (2022, June)

• “Visual Artist Elysa Kooijman”, podcast at Ik zie, ik zie, Filosofie, Spotify (2022, December)

• “Tackling Inequality in the Rotterdam(se) Creative Scene”, panel discussion with KONTRA Labs at WORM Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2021, February)

Honors & Awards:

• Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship (2025-2029)

Education:

• MA Philosophy at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• MA Fine Art and Design at Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands
• BA Applied Photography & Image Communication at Nederlandse Academie voor Beeldcreatie, The Netherlands

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Gray Huang

Gray Huang is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at ������Ƶ. His research lies at the intersection of cinema/media studies and philosophy, with particular interests in film phenomenology, media aesthetics, and sound studies. He is also an interdisciplinary multilingual singer-songwriter (Cantonese, Mandarin, English, French), jazz vocalist, and TV talent show winner. His performances span across New York, Hong Kong, and mainland China.

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Lisa R Timmermann

Lisa (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature department at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on the role of dark humor in contemporary satirical fiction by global women writers. She holds a BA (Hons) in Film Studies with Modern Writing from the University of Gloucestershire, UK, an MA in Film Studies from Concordia University, Montreal, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Research Interests:

• Contemporary satire
• Dark humor
• Marxist feminism
• Critical animal studies
• Horror cinema

Advisor:

• Dr. Jeffner Allen

Publications:

• “A Crossbreed of a Text: Kafka’s Revision of ‘Eine Kreuzung’”, German Studies Review [Forthcoming, May 2027]

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• “From the Final Girl to the Single Woman: Female Vulnerability and Resilience in Recent Horror Films,” Paper, RMMLA, Denver, Colorado, October 2023 [Session Chair & Presenter, Film Panel]

• “Funny, angry, female: Unruly Women and Dark Humor in Bridesmaids & Yellowjackets, Paper, NeMLA, Boston,Massachusetts, March 2024 [Seminar Chair & Presenter, “Unruly Women in Contemporary Pop Culture”]

• “Partner-free Protagonists: Single Women in Bridesmaids & Convenience Store Woman,” Paper, ACLA, Montreal, Canada, March 2024

• “Severing the Self: Corporate Capitalism in Severance & The Factory,” Paper, COLI GSO, ������Ƶ, April 2024

• “Laughing at an Animal Called Human: The Dark Humor of Contemporary Women Writers,” PCAACA, New Orleans, April 2025

• “Sad and Crazy: The Pathologization of Single Women in Recent ‘Feminist’ Horror,” 4th ISSA Virtual Conference, July 2025 [presenter and session chair]

• “Real Meat and Fake Noses: Gender, Species, and Dark Humor in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s ‘Paris’", PAMLA, San Francisco, November 2025

Honors and Awards

• J.A. De Sève Entrance Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

• Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship, ������Ƶ

• Dissertation Year Fellowship, Comparative Literature, ������Ƶ

Education:

• BA (Hons) in Film Studies with Modern Writing, University of Gloucestershire, UK

• MA in Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

• MA in Creative Writing, University of Portsmouth, UK

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María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado

María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado (she/her), a Clark Fellow, is a third-year Ph.D. student at
SUNY Binghamton in the Department of Comparative Literature. Born in Manatí, Puerto Rico and raised in Springfield, MA, María joined the department with an M.A. and a B.A. in German language and literature; and an M.F.A. in poetry. A multilingual Boricua poet of color, poet laureate of Springfield, MA (2014-2016), and dynamic intersectional feminist educator of German language, Spanish language, English composition, creative writing and world literature, María practices transformational leadership in service to others. María’s research includes papers-in progress on the ghazal as a worldly form; decolonial resistance and the reclamation of self through multiple intersecting identities in Puerto Rican women’s autobiographies and memoirs; and Hilde Domin’s poetics of exile from and return to Germany. Currently course complete, María is developing her dissertation prospectus and preparing for her comprehensive exams under the guidance of her committee members: Dr. Giovanna Montenegro (Comparative Literature), Dr. Luiza Moreira (Comparative Literature, and Dr. Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno (Romance Languages and Literatures.) She plans to focus on gendered decolonial resilience in literary works by Afro-Puerto Rican writer Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (NY) and by the multi-genre Afro-Boricua writer Mayra Santos-Febres (PR).

Research Interests:

• German, Latinx, and African American poetry by women poets
• The ghazal as worldly form
• Decolonial theory and practice
• Latinx memoirs and autobiographies

Advisor:

• Dr. Giovanna Montenegro

Poetry Publications:

• Thought Here Would Cure Me of There. Lily Poetry Review Books, 2024.
• Destierro Means More Than Exile. Revised edition. MultiCreative Wisdom, 2024.
• Resistencia: Resilience. Poems & Essays. Human Error Publishing, 2023. [cover art by the author]
• Flight (a limited first edition chapbook). Thousand Hands Press/Lotus Peace Arts, 2016. [cover art by the author]
• Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras. Bilingual Review Press, 2008.

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• 2025: “Literary Mappings of Afro-Puerto Rican Feminisms in Dahlma Llanos Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone and Mayra Santos Febres’s La otra Julia.” LACAS Research Panel, ������Ƶ, Binghamton, NY.

Honors & Awards:

• 2024: Awarded an honorary doctorate in arts & humanities, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
• August 2025: Digital Humanities Research Institute cohort member, Binghamton, University, Binghamton, NY.
• September 2025: Broome County Arts Council Artist-in-Residence, Broome Art Gallery, Binghamton, NY.

Education:

• B.A., German, Colby College, Waterville, ME
• M.A., German, Tufts University, Medford, MA
• M.F.A. in Poetry, Solstice M.F.A. Program, Pine Manor College | now at Lasell University

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Mohammadreza Touzideh

Mohammadreza Touzideh, a PhD student in Comparative Literature at ������Ƶ (SUNY), analyzes the intersections of continental philosophy, literature, and ethics in his research. His current interests focus on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, tracing its ethical implications and variants across literary fields. Mohammadreza delves into ethical criticism in world literature, Persian literature, and contemporary Iranian cinema, illuminating how this approach of reading profoundly transforms readers’ comprehension of these artistic contexts. More specifically, Mohammadreza is interested in examining the ways in which the critic’s and reader’s utilization of ethical language in engaging with artistic forms (re)constructs subjectivity and time.

Research Interests:

• Continental philosophy
• Ethical criticism
• Persian classic poetry
• Modern Iranian cinema

Publications

Touzideh, Mohammadreza, and Nowrouzi Roshnavand, Farshid. "Ethical Conversation with the Other in Conrad Aiken’s “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”: A Levinasian Reading," Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances, 10, 1, 2022, 155-167. doi: 10.22049/jalda.2022.27397.1347

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• “Reconstitution of Subjectivity in The Idiot”, First International Conference on Issues in English Language Teaching and Literature (University of Mazandaran, Iran) – Oct. 2018

• “Seeing Through Literature: The Ethical Impossibility of Killing the Other in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot”, PAMLA 121st Annual Conference (Palm Springs, CA) – Nov. 2024

Honors & Awards:

• Distinguished Member of Student Scientific Society in Fifth Harekat Academic Festival, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran, April 2012

Education:

• B.A., English Language and Literature, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran

• M.A., English Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

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Samantha Sharp

Samantha Sharp is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. Her primary research interests include ecocriticism, semiotics, and the historical avant-garde, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe. In her dissertation project, she reimagines ecopoetics via the linguistic experiments of Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian modernists of the early-20th century. At Binghamton, she has taught courses for both the Comparative Literature and Russian Departments. She also serves as Poetry Editor for the online literary magazine Midway Journal, and her own poetry can be found in journals like Cleaver Magazine, Dipity Lit Mag, EcoTheo Review, MAINTENANT 19, and NonBinary Review.

Research Interests:

• Posthumanism
• Political Ecology
• (Bio)semiotics
• Poetics
• Modernist Literature

Advisor:

• Dr. Kaitlyn Sorenson 

Conferences and Invited Talks:       

• “Fricatives, Plosives, and Glides: Studying Poetry as a Body-Air Nexus,” The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biannual Conference (2025)
• “Rhyming Rot: Composition and Decomposition in Bernard Kangro’s Early Poems,” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conference (2025)
• “Ecocentric Love and Loss: More-than-Human Girlhood in The Tragic Menagerie,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference (2024)
• “Make Way for Wings, Roots, and Radicals,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2024)
• “Defamiliarizing Semiosis: The Transcorporeal Poetics of Elena Guro,” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conference (2024)
• “‘Whirlwinds of aggressive dust:’ F. T. Marinetti’s Ecstatic Ecofascism,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2023)
• “Plant Pedagogies: Receptivity, Connection, and Growth,” Pedagogies of Hope Workshop at McMaster University (2023)
• “The ‘Recombinant Energy’ of the Commons: Towards a Poetics of the Biotariat,” ASPECT Graduate Conference at Virginia Tech (2023)
• “Inside the Exquisite Corpse: The Narrative Pulse of What We All Long For,” University of Idaho English Graduate Conference (2023)
• “Transrational Ecologies: Velimir Khlebnikov & the Rhythms of the Volga,” The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Watersheds Symposium (2022)

Honors & Awards:

• Title VIII Fellowship, Hamilton Lugar School, Indiana University (2025)
• Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Fellowship, American Councils for International Education (2024-25)
• Gregory Missak Seferian Memorial Research Grant, Department of Comparative Literature, ������Ƶ (2024)
• Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Fellowship, American Councils for International Education (2024)
• Title VIII Fellowship, Hamilton Lugar School, Indiana University (2023)
• Title VIII Fellowship, Hamilton Lugar School, Indiana University (2022)
• Innovators Fellowship, Material+Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence, ������Ƶ (2021-22)

Education:

• BA in English & Secondary English Education, Flagler College (2018)
• MA in English, Boston College (2021)

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Sierra Rasmussen

Sierra Rasmussen (she/her) is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature Department at SUNY Binghamton. She works with the ancient Greco-Roman world, modern popular culture, especially comic books and comic book media, gender and sexuality, including how the modern and ancient perceptions of it interact, and mythology. She is specifically interested in how the Greco-Roman world, be that mythological or historical figures, is presented in popular culture and how that can represent not just ancient mentalities but also modern ones.

Research Interests:

• Ancient Greco-Roman world
• Gender & Sexuality
• Popular Culture
• Mythology
• Comics/Comic Book Media

Conferences and Invited Talks:

• ‘We Make Sappho’ Presented at the Texas Tech WSG Annual Conference in April 2022
• ‘The Art of Queer Coding: The Unintentional Queer Life of Jujutsu Kaisen’ Presented at the 12th Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton in April 2024

Education:

• B.A. Classics - University of Washington
• M.A. Arts with a concentration in Classics - Texas Tech University

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Zachary Wagner

Zach Wagner (He/Him) is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at ������Ƶ. His research interests involve media archeological examinations of the links between information technology and neo-imperialism as well as applications of philosophies of continuous differentiation and the Black Radical Aesthetic which offer potential means of resistance to such phenomena. He has published in journals such as Literature Film Quarterly and Media Fields.

Research Interests:

• Media Archeology and Cultural Techniques
• Posthumanism
• Black Feminist Theories of the Subject
• Deleuzian Thought
  
• Black Radical Aesthetic

Advisor:

• Dr. Jeroen Gerrits

Publications: 

• “Wikileaks, Qanon, and Death Drives in Digital Archives,” Media Fields (Forthcoming)

• “Equiano’s Trace: Adapting Slave Narratives to Insta-Film,” Literature Film Quarterly (July 2024)

Conferences and Invited Talks:

Organized

• “Stanley Cavell: Philosophical, Literary & Cinematic Skepticism,” (Assistant Organizer, 2023)
• “What is the Human?” Binghamton Comparative Literature Graduate Conference (2020, Canceled due to Covid)

Presented

• “Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic,” American Comparative Literature Association (Panel Organizer, 2025)
•  “Digital Marketplaces and New Feudal Techniques,” Ashoka University (Guest Lecture, 2025)
• “Maxwell's Demon and the Veil of Ignorance,” Northeast Modern Language Association (2025)
• “Mahmoud Darwish’s Place Making Techne And Procopius’s Ekphrastic Gaza Clock,” Northeast Modern Language Association (2025)
• “Digital Equiano,” Global Equiano (Invited Talk, 2024)
• “Equiano’s Trace: Adapting Slave Narratives to Insta-Film,” Modern Language Association (2024)
• “Entropic Decolonization: Multiplicitous Being in Resistance to the Smart City,” American Comparative Literature Association (2023)
• “4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days: The Violent Orientations of Womanhood Under Anti-abortion Patriarchy,” Northeast Modern Language Association (2023)
• “Interracial Loving in Particular: Benjamin Bagley's Misreading of Wuthering Heights,” Northeast Modern Language Association (2023)
• “The Quasicrystal Image: Chaos in Deleuze's Time Crystal,” American Comparative Literature Association (2022)
• “Witnessing Wikileaks: The Deaths of Iraqis, Drives of the US, & Film as a Model for Witnessing,” Northeast Modern Language Association (2022)
• “Nick Land and the Master’s Broken Tools: On the Necessity  of Decolonial Methodologies in Poststructural Work,” American Comparative Literature Association (2021)

Honors & Awards:

• ������Ƶ Comparative Literature Dissertation Year Fellowship (2025)

Education:

• MA, Comparative Literature -  ������Ƶ (2021)