INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR
CARIBBEAN STUDIES, POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
My research focuses on Caribbean literary and cultural studies, and is grounded in comparative, performance, and digital methodologies. I have published articles devoted to Taylor Mac's manifestos, Roque Salas Rivera's debt and poiesis, and Fanon's medical writing in journals including in Interventions, French Screen Studies, New Centennial Review, small axe, among others. My monograph, Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature, was published by the University of Virginia Press in February, 2016.
My current book project, “Changing Imaginaries,” explores Caribbean artists’ hand-made cognitive experiments in transforming their political imaginaries. Work presented and published towards this project includes “un compromiso con la tierra,” about Rosaura Rodríguez’s Instagram Stories’ representation of her pigment-making practice; conference papers thinking with Raquel Albarrán’s practice of fatiga textual, copying literary works by hand as a way of slowing down her reading, presented at ASA and ASAP; and conference papers about the corporeality of Glissant’s poetry reading, presented at ASA and MLA, with an article currently in development.