蘑菇视频

Education:
Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2023
B.S., Criminal Justice & English, Rutgers University-Newark, 2013
A.A. Criminal Justice, Hudson County Community College, 2004

Courses Frequently Taught:
English 352: 鈥淎merican Literature after 1865鈥�
English 351: 鈥淢anifest Destinies: American Literature to 1865鈥�
English / History 257: 鈥淧romised Lands: A Cultural and Literary History of the Great Migration, 1917鈥�1970鈥�
English 220: 鈥淢ulticultural Literature鈥� / 鈥淪peculative Fiction of the Working Class鈥�

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
鈥淟iterary Interracialism at Midcentury: Arna Bontemps, Jack Conroy, and the Wartime Popular Front.鈥� MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Forthcoming.

鈥淏lack Radicals in the Illinois Writers鈥� Project: Intellectual Labor, Sociology, and Chicago鈥檚 New Literary Awakening.鈥�  Working through the Federal Writers鈥� Project: Labor, Place, Representation, and Archive. Eds. Michele Fazio and Maureen Curtin. Forthcoming.

鈥淎ttaway William (1911鈥�1986).鈥� Dictionnaire mondial des litt茅ratures prol茅tariennes (1917鈥�1939) [World Dictionary of Proletarian Literatures (1917鈥�1939)]. Eds. Anthony Glinoer and Victoria Pleuchot. Montreal: M 脡diteur. Forthcoming 2027 (in French).

鈥淛ack London鈥檚 The Iron Heel and America鈥檚 Descent into Fascism.鈥� Cultural Logic. Forthcoming November 2026.

鈥淟angston Hughes, Nationalism and the Internationalist Horizon: Viewing America at 250.鈥� Against the Current 243 (July/August 2026): 23鈥�27.

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Professional and Personal:
Existing at the intersection of American and African American studies, my scholarship and teaching focus broadly on literary multiculturalism and 20th-century African American culture, literature, and history, with a particular emphasis on the Black literary Left of the Great Depression and Cold War eras. In recent years, I have been especially fascinated with the Black Chicago Renaissance, a relatively overlooked moment of cultural efflorescence among African American writers, artists, and intellectuals that spanned the 1930s and 1940s. My work often blends archival research and intellectual and literary histories to illuminate the production and reception of politically engaged literary texts, including those written by forgotten authors. As a teacher, I aim to foster what Paulo Freire once termed critical consciousness, the ability 鈥渢o perceive social, political, and economic contradictions and to take action against those oppressive elements.鈥� My interests include writing (mainly poetry and short fiction), reading, playing story-rich video games, collecting Lego sets, and spending time with my wonderful spouse and our two feline children.