Academic
PhD research: I am currently working on how the plural visions of the future from the 1960s have been remembered, preserved, modified, forgotten, or repressed—that is to say, represented—in contemporary American fiction. The following novels are under study: Tree of Smoke (2007) by Denis Johnson, Inherent Vice (2009) by Thomas Pynchon, The Sympathizer (2015) by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Girls (2016) by Emma Cline, The Nix (2016) by Nathan Hill, and Harlem Shuffle (2021) and Crook Manifesto (2023) by Colson Whitehead.
Bereav’d of Light: Blackness, Repression, and the Alternate History in The Man in the High Castle and Gravity’s Rainbow (Master’s thesis)
Master’s research: I studied on the representation/censorship of the Black experience in two postwar American novels, The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon. Both books are alternate histories (of sorts) that examine the relationship between Nazi Germany, the United States, and anti-Black racism.
(Mis)Reading Richard Wright: Literature as Organizing (undergraduate honors thesis)
Undergraduate research: I wrote a comparative study of Richard Wright and Frantz Fanon, identifying how their work contains the genealogical origins of contemporary debates within Black studies around questions of optimism and pessimism.
Fictitious
(short story, coming soon)
Translation
The Unofficial Minecraft Cookbook by Juliette Labaltry & Charly Deslandes (French to English)
Journalistic
“Climate Charlatans at Wesleyan University”
“Antarctica’s Bizarre Brilliance Proves an Unforgettable Journey”