My research and teaching bring together the study of twentieth-century and contemporary literature and film. My first book, currently under review, analyzes multiple stylistic overlaps between Caribbean and Filipinx narrative forms, in turn opening an aesthetic direction for archipelagic thinking. I am now working on a second major research project that examines literary histories of gentrification from the perspectives of the Caribbean and Filipinx diasporas. My peer-reviewed essays have been published in journals such as Small Axe, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, and Studies in the Novel.

Since 2016, I’ve taught at San Francisco State University, where I am currently Associate Professor of English. My teaching experience ranges from traditional literature survey courses to a class on global cities that engages with poetry, visual media, and urban studies. Working at a large urban university has provided me with opportunities to dialogue with the broader public through events at the Asian Art Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora.

Before joining the faculty at SF State, I completed my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. I was born and raised in South Florida and drawn to the profession of literary studies after reading Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners as an undergraduate at Florida State University’s London Study Centre.