Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University - 2008 (English & Comparative Literature)
B.A., Harvard University - 1998 (Social Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Caribbean, African diaspora, Latinx and Latin American literatures; Slavery and Holocaust memory-cultures; critical race theory; global modernism; reggae, dancehall, and Jamaican cultural studies; narco-culture; Marxism; postcolonial studies; Muslim slave narratives and new world Orientalism.
Books and Publications
"Scheherezade in Chains: Muslim Slave Narratives and the Arab-Islamic Genealogy of African Diaspora Literature," in The Global South Atlantic, eds. Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter (Fordham UP). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2017
"Narco-Narratives in the Circum-Caribbean: The Geo-Politcs of Citation," in Postmodern Culture (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2016
Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2014
"Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and the Chinese Diaspora: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda." Small Axe. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010
"World Literature and Diaspora Studies." The Routledge Companion to World Literature. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010
"Zora Neale Hurston, Biographical Criticism, and African Diasporic Vernacular Culture." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 34.4, Winter: 99-118. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
"Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown." Hispanic-American Authors. New York: Chelsea House. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralisation and Social Cohesion book reivew. H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online March. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Upward Mobility as a Neurotic Condition in Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street." Exit9 8: 15-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown." Columbia Journal of American Studies 8, Spring: 99-118. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Narco-narratives in the Americas: Scripting Illegality in Telenovelas, the Dancehall, and the Courtroom." Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium. CUNY Graduate Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
