Education 

PhD, Harvard University 2007
BA, Princeton University 2001

Areas of Specialization 

   • Modern American Literature
   • American Women Writers
   • African American Literature
   • Periodical Studies
   • Gender Studies
   • Food Studies

Recently Taught Courses

U.S. Women Writers of the 1920s
Vehicles of Modernity: Transportation Technology and Modern U.S. Literature
Fast and Slow Foods in Modern American Literature
Themes in American Literature: Eat This! Food and Modern U.S. Literature

Professional Accolades 

   • Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize for Best Essay, 2017
   • Morrison Fellowship, English Department, University of South Carolina, 2016-2017
   • Provost Humanities Grant, University of South Carolina, 2014
   • Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow of English Language and Literature 2013-
   • Institute for African American Research Fellowship, University of South Carolina, 2011-12
   • Provost Humanities Grant, 2011-12
   • Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award 2011 Hartman Center Travel Grant, Duke University Libraries, 2011
   • College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend,  2011
   • Department of English Outstanding Teacher,  2010

Selected Publications

PUBLICATIONS
   • “Posthuman Character as Racializing Assemblage,” ASAP/J, “Character of Literary Criticism” cluster, ed. Octavio Gonzalez and Lisa Mendelman, September 2021 
   • “US Women Writers, Sexual Violence, and Narrative Resistance,” in Gender in American Literature and Culture, ed. Jean Marie Lutes and Jennifer Travis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 160-172 
   • “Guilty Pleasures in Children’s Literature,” in The Cambridge Companion to Food and Literature, ed. J. Michelle Coghlan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 146-160 
   • “Modernist Food Studies,” Modernism/modernity Print Plus vol. 4, cycle 1 (May 2019)

BOOKS
   • Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions (Oxford University Press, 2019)
   • Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2010)

RECENT ARTICLES
   • “Visceral Encounters: Critical Race Studies and Modern Food Literature,” in Food and Literature, ed. Gitanjali G. Shahani (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 147-168
   • “The New Woman,” in American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930, ed. Ichiro Takayoshi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 101-123
   • “Candy Boys and Chocolate Factories: Roald Dahl, Racialization, and Global Industry,” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 63.3 (September 2017): 403-428
   • “Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism,” Modernism/modernity 22.2 (April 2015): 279-302
   • “An All-Too-Moveable Feast: Ernest Hemingway and the Stakes of Terroir,” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 2.1 (Winter 2014)
   • “The Sweet Tooth of Slavery: Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Walker’s ‘A Subtlety,’” Transition 115 (2014): 143-153

Recent Presentations 

   • “Citrus and Surfaces: Print Media and the Appetite for the Other.” Keynote, “Refractions of Mass Culture: Modernist Print Media and the Logic of Multiplication,” a symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. September 2022. 
   • “Dorothy Parker, Smart Magazines, and the Susceptible Body.” Visiting Faculty, City of Print: NEH Summer Seminar (online), July 2020 
   • “Fitzgerald and Race II: Artificial Colors and Racial Fictions in The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and Other (Mostly) non-Gatsby Works,” invited panelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, virtual, July 2021 
   • “Sucking Lemons and Queering Race: Character Types and Citrus Crates,” Modernist Studies Association (MSA) conference in Toronto, ON, October 2019 
   • “Chew on This: Global Food and Children’s Literature,” American Studies Association (ASA) conference in Atlanta, GA, November 2018
   • “Seeds of Change: Food, Biodiversity, and the Arts,” ENV 200: The Environmental Nexus, Princeton Environmental Institute,  Princeton University, March 2018.
   • “Satire in the Bardo: George Saunders and Empathetic Irony,” Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in New York, NY, January 2018
   • “Gleaning Fields and Gathering Mushrooms: Gertrude Stein and Food Studies,” Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in New York, NY, January 2018
   • “Changing Color in the Chocolate Factory,” Critical Questions Lecture Series, Oregon State University, April 2017
   • “‘A Ripe and Complete Woman’: Philippa Schuyler, Raw Foods, and Racial Futures,” the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium Series, Wake Forest University, March 2017