Occupations

I work as a writer, researcher, editor, critic, and Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature. I currently teach in this latter capacity at the University of Reading, where I offer courses in World literature, American literature, women's literature, and contemporary poetry. Most recently, my work on migration and literature has been awarded a  Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which I will work under until 2024.

Alongside the two books that I am completing under the auspices of my Leverhulme, I am also the author of Spatial Poetics (OUP, 2018), editor of Joe Brainard's Art (EUP, 2019), editor of Making Home Away: Understanding Migration, Resettlement, and Displacement (Palgrave, 2022), and author / interviewer of We Were the New York School: The Oral History (EUP, 2022). Other writings include articles and reviews for The TImes Literary Supplement, Poetry Magazine, the American Book Review, The Review of English Studies, Jacket, and PN Review, among other publications.

 

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Preoccupations

My research is interested in questions of home, space, place, ecoglobalism, genre, feminism, and form, in equal measure.


England is where I reside with my family, though part of me lingers in the Middle East, and earlier chapters were written on the east coast of the USA.