I study the feminist politics of moving bodies across literature, film, and performance. I am currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Toronto, where my SSHRC-funded dissertation takes up bodily comportment—gesture, posture, pose—in 70s/80s American feminist cultural production, arguing that these works expose the flawed systems used to make sense of and attribute value to bodies. My scholarship broadly is concerned with how bodily movement indexes the interlocking pressures of gender, race, and sexuality, as well as how it frustrates methodological orthodoxies that reduce and taxonomize. Across my work, I am interested in how reading, interpretation, and criticism might become avenues for practising non-mastery, something that I argue is brought into focus through the feminist study of embodiment. My primary fields of study are feminist theory, 20th-21st century American literature, film studies, performance theory, Black studies, and queer theory. Artists and writers under consideration in my dissertation include Ana Mendieta, Lorna Simpson, Martha Rosler, Carrie Mae Weems, Lizzie Borden, Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, Assata Shakur, and Marilynne Robinson.

PhD, English —University of Toronto (2022-present)
MA, English —University of Toronto (2022)
MA, Cinema Studies —University of Toronto (2021)
BA, Individualized Study —New York University (2019)