Preoccupations
My work focuses on contemporary poetry, migration, and genre, and interdisciplinary and transnational wherever possible. Through various mediums, my academic and creative projects all share an interest in articulating the ways in which the shapes of the constructions we live within imply and affect our shifting perceptions of our shifting world.

I engage with scholarship, students and, lately, with more public audiences through print, creative practice, and digital media.  I currently have several interrrelated projects underway, including a digital archive of Syrian migration, funded by the British Academy, and a book-length study of the perpetuity of displacement, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. (See Current Projects for more).

My first book, Spatial Poetics: Second Generation New York School Poetry (OUP, 2018), showcases the ways in which aesthetic constructions are shaped by the environments from which they are composed. My second book, Joe Brainard's Art (EUP, 2019), is an edited collection which zooms in to treat the poetry and art of avant-garde collage artist, miniature artist, and painter, Joe Brainard more specifically and comprehensively ​(please see "New/Now" for more). My third book asks The New York School direction about its boundaries; my fourth asks similar questions about "home" to displaced people and refugees. (See New / Now
for more)
 

Background

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I have lived, worked, written, studied, and taught throughout the east coast of the USA,
the Middle East, and the UK.

I am currently Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at the University of Reading, and Diversity and Inclusion Lead for the School of Languages and Literature. I am also Principal investigator on the British Academy funded "Lost and Found?: Testimonies of Migration, Resettlement, and Displacement." In 2021, I will be a Leverhulme Research Fellow.