Graduate Student, Modern Languages and Literatures
About
I am a doctoral student in English at Loyola University Chicago. My work centers on twentieth century fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on postcolonial and diasporic fiction. My interests also include textual scholarship, digital humanities, modernism, and the intersection between print culture and aesthetics.
My current project examines diasporic literature in contexts of material culture, globalization, and thing theory. It focuses on the roles 'things' (commodities, artifacts, even bodies) play in literatures that experiment with uprooted identities, and tries to place these concerns in a broader context of movements across 'The Global' by people and goods - the mythos of globalization, in other words. This study was inaugurated in my prize-winning 2011 essay "Enchanted Consumption in Literature of the Black Diaspora" and a 2008 examination of Wayson Choy's writings, entitled "Reification and Remembrance: The Spirit of Things in the Fiction of Wayson Choy."
