I am a fifth year PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature. My research interests stretch across Black studies, critical race/ethnic studies, Jewish studies, Marxism/critical theory, social movements, and world-systems theory. My dissertation, "Shadow Internationalisms: African Diasporic Literature and the 'Jewish Question,'" addresses Black literary responses to European anti-Semitism, and how the latter informed Black internationalism and Pan-Africanism in the long twentieth century. Engaging with novels across a range of genres--the novel of passing, historical fiction, and detective fiction--, as well as archival material, periodicals, and unpublished manuscripts, my dissertation traces an international Black-Jewish exchange that spanned the U.S., Caribbean, Europe, and North Africa. Bringing the frameworks of world-systems theory and global race studies to bare on the study of Black-Jewish entanglements, I argue for displacing the nation-state and national longing as the latter's center.
My work has either been published, or is forthcoming, in The Journal of Jewish History and Culture, Publicbooks, James Baldwin Review, Partisan Magazine, and New Brunswick Today.
