about me

My research focuses on contemporary poetry and visual culture and how those works remember, or 'take up,' the history of chattel slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas. My work is informed by Black feminist, postcolonial, and archival theories. 

During the AY 2021-2022 I was a Humanities Center Fellow, where I was at work on my dissertation "Luminous Black: On Making Time, the World, and the Self in Black Women’s Poetry." I completed my dissertation in September of 2024. 

Currently, I am a member of the team over at the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, where I act as an Acquisitions and Metadata Lead.  I am also the digital humanities editor for Insurrect!, an online publication dedicated to radical thinking in Early American studies. My previous digital humanities work includes Dr. Angel David Nieves' Apartheid Heritages Project, Northeastern's Women Writers Project, Dr. Kathleen Kelly's Thoreau's Drawings, and Dr. Nicole N. Aljoe's Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. 

My public humanities work includes a fellowship with GBH (formerly WGBH), where I worked as an assistant on a number of different projects that developed educational material and programming. I have also worked as a fellow with the National Parks Service, where I helped design the curriculum for their upcoming project "Unfinished: America at 250." I was also a member of the team Northeastern's Reckonings Project, which sought to make apparent Boston's long Black history. 

I am also a dedicated educator— my pedagogy is compassion and justice-oriented, and I believe in working closely with my students to create educational plans that ensure their success. In 2022, I received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award from Northeastern University. 

I also enjoy cooking, beach walks, and spending time with my tortoiseshell cat Mary-Cleo.