I am a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Kentucky, with a background in Linguistics and Cultural Studies. My area of expertise is 20th-century and 21st-century American literature and film with an emphasis on the intersection of space, citizenship, and whiteness, a focus largely informed by my own experience as an international scholar residing in the USA.

My dissertation examines how mass-produced suburbs emerged as a cornerstone of the cultural narratives defining American citizenship in the aftermath of World War II. I have published in the edited collection Post45 Vs. The World: Global Perspectives on Literature and The Contemporary and have publications forthcoming in New Review of Film & Television Studies and Adaptation, with additional articles under review in Contemporary Literature and Literature/Film Quarterly.

For the past six years, I have also been the instructor of record at the University of Kentucky for two sections per semester of Introduction to Composition and Communication I and II and Introduction to Film.