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

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 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 – 2026

Betty Jones Scholarship, Middlebury College, 2019 

Areas of Research and Teaching Interest

French and Francophone Literature and Culture; Caribbean orality, poetics and literature; theories of geography and representation of place; theatre and performance; history and memory of the Atlantic world; environmental humanities; digital humanities; women and gender; folklife and folklore

Publications

“A Return to Green Beginnings: Cyclical Time in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain.” In Ecodramaturgies, edited by Heather J. Denyer. University of Iowa Press. (Forthcoming, 2027)

“Adopted Earth: Édouard Glissant, Ana Mendieta, and the Poetics of Exile.” Itinéraires TLC, 2025/3. (Forthcoming, Spring 2026)

“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, 2025.