Education:

Ph.D. in Francophone Studies, University of Virginia (in progress)

Master’s work at Middlebury College in France, in exchange with Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV

Diplôme Universitaire d'Études Françaises - Niveau 2, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III

Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, The Evergreen State College

Teaching Experience:

L’Institut Catholique de Paris, Lectrice, 2019 – 2020

Lycée Camille Sée, English Language Assistantship, 2018 – 2019
 

Grants & Fellowships:

Dumas Malone Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2024-2025                               

Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation Research Grant, UVA, 2023

Americas Center / Centro de las Américas Research Grant, University of Virginia, 2022

Public History Fellow at Monticello, Center for the Study of the Age of Jefferson, 2021

Battestin Fellowship, The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2021  (Project: Mapping Deliverance: Spatial Representations of Bondage and Liberation in the 1858 - 1872 Journals of John Washington)

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in the Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures Research Cluster, University of Virginia, 2020 – 2025

Betty Jones Scholarship, Middlebury College, 2019
 

Interests:

Caribbean Poetics, Literatures and Languages
Comparative Religion 
Theater and Ritual
Folklife and Folklore
History of the Atlantic World
Spatial Displacement, Exile and Migration 
Archive Studies
 

Publications:

“Staging the Païdeuma: Nature and Insurrection in Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête.” In The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theatre and Performance, edited by Camilla Stevens and Jon Rossini. Palgrave. Forthcoming, 2025.