About

I am a scholar of 20th and 21st-century French and Francophone culture and literary history. Before joining the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, I received a BA in French from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and a PhD in French and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2023-2024, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Modern Languages at Duke University.

My current book project, Militant Ink: Radical Maghrebi Writing in France studies an archive of novels and memoirs that showcase Maghrebi francophone authors drawing on literary form to engage with anti-colonial, leftist, and anti-racist radical social movements of their time. Through historically situated readings of works by authors such as Driss Chraïbi, Mohammed Kenzi, Mengouchi and Ramdane, and others, Militant Ink begins assembling a heterodox literary-political tradition whose beginnings are found in the ruins of the Second World War, when Maghrebi workers were imported in mass numbers as a colonial labor force to reconstruct a demographically and infrastructurally devastated France.

My scholarly work can be found in journals such as French Forum, Forum for Modern Language Studies, French Cultural Studies, and L’Esprit Créateur. I recently guest-edited a Spring 2024 special issue of L’Esprit Créateur on “Racial Capitalism in French and Francophone Studies.” My public-facing criticism, interviews, and translations are published or forthcoming in venues including The Times Literary Supplement, Sidecar (New Left Review), the Verso Books Blog, Cabinet Magazine, Viewpoint, Diacritik, and Radical Philosophy.

I also write and teach about contemporary radical left Francophone literature, the (decolonial) historical novel, post-1968 French noir, and 20th-century French Marxism and Philosophy.