Academic Programs
Doctor of Philosophy degree in English
Graduated August 2024
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Ph: 617.627.3459
www.tufts.edu
Master of Arts degree in English
Graduated May 2014
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
Ph: 617.353.2000
www.bu.edu
Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in Philosophy
Graduated May 2013
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Tallahassee, FL 32307
Ph: 850.599.3000
www.famu.edu
Publications
“‘What occurs in our times when the analysts speak of transference’: Identification, jouissance, and race in NBA fan culture”
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, “Just a Game? Sport and Psychoanalytic Theory“ 2024
“‘Some people like…’: Misapprehension and Effacement of Jouissance in the Environment of Capitalism”
Lacan and the Environment, publication forthcoming by Palgrave Macmillan for the Palgrave Lacan Series. 2020.
“A Critique of Countertransference”
Reading Seminar VIII, publication forthcoming by Palgrave Macmillan for the Palgrave Lacan Series. 2020.
“‘[D]ifferent even from our “own” differences’: Racial Signification and the Legacy of Lacanian Sexuation”
Word and Text, “50 Years +- The Age of New French Theory (1966-1970).” 2017.
Presentations
“Castration and Exploitation in Uncut Gems and Succession.“
Lack IV Conference. Burlington, Vermont. April 22, 2023.
“Exquisitely Imitated Gestures: The Celluloid Edge in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance.“
Lacan: Clinic and Culture Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 15, 2022.
“Circuits of Jouissance: The Reading and Institutionalization of Black American Literature.“
The Objects In/Of Psychoanalysis Conference. Ithaca, New York. September 24, 2022.
“Koji Shiraishi’s Burning Curse: The Abandonment of the Big Other in Noroi.“
Centre for Lacanian Analysis Conference. Auckland, New Zealand. November 28, 2020.
“‘Identify[ing] the workings as well as the work’: Reading Culturally Diverse Literatures and Toni Morrison’s ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken’.”
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Boston, MA. March 7, 2020.
“Madness, Racism, and the Dignity of the Human Subject: From James Baldwin to Malcolm X.”
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Boston, MA. March 7, 2020.
“Traversing the Space Between: The ‘Black Mirror Stage,’ The Clinic, and Beloved.”
Lacan’s Écrits Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. October 12, 2019.
“‘It’s the end of the world as we know it’: The Apocalyptic Vision of Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly and Chester Himes’ Plan B.”
The American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. May 23, 2019.
“‘[Giving] murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse’: Soji Shimada’s The Tokyo Zodiac Murders and the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin and Raymond Chandler’s Hardboiled Fiction.”
The International Poe & Hawthorne Conference. Kyoto, Japan. June 22, 2018.
“‘If a week goes by without reading a mystery, I suffer withdrawal symptoms’: From Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin to Soji Shimada’s Mitarai in The Tokyo Zodiac Murders.”
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. April 14, 2018.
“‘The world is too small for someone like Oliver Queen to disappear’: Remaking Smallville, Batman Begins, and Superheroism in The CW’s Arrow.”
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. April 13, 2018.
“‘Some people like…’: Misapprehension and Effacement of Jouissance in the Environment of Capitalism.”
LaConference 2018. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 7, 2018.
“‘Credit is Capital’: Market Forces, Harboring Education, and Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery.”
The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference. Cambridge, MA. April 30, 2017.
“‘Yuk’ and the Social Construction of Nature: ChickieNobs, Crakers, and Capitalism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.”
Climate Change: An Environmental Humanities Conference at Tufts University. Medford, MA. May 6, 2016.