Q: What is your area of specialty?
A: I specialize in feminist and anti-racist literature and poetry, that requires a computer to be accessed, produced, played, or otherwise experienced.
Q: What was the title of your master’s thesis or dissertation?
A: My dissertation is titled Hypermaterial Language Art: Digitality, Materiality, and Contemporary Anti-Racist Poetics–a long and overly complicated title for research about multimedia poetry and art that use the logic of digital computers to work to challenge or dismantle the logics of colorblind racism. (That might have been a long and overly complicated explanation).
Q: What is your current scholarly project?
A: Right now I am working on a couple of projects related to literature and / on / for social media platforms: one project is called Filter, a new ‘zine that I started and edit for literature and poetry on Instagram; the other is a series of conference presentations (that will become article(s) or something bigger) on different aspects of storytelling on TikTok, especially that which works against algorithmic discrimination on the platform.
Q: What is your favorite assignment to assign?
A: Literary Twitterbots– an assignment where students write a simple program that runs on Twitter and tweets out poetry or stories automatically, based on the program the students write.
Q: What was the last book you read?
A: I just finished Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson and am currently reading The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green.
Q: What are your favorite events on campus?
A: Most of my time on campus has sadly been COVID-times when we haven’t had many events, but I have really enjoyed all the music events I’ve been able to go to–the choir’s concerts in the courtyard and the Music on the Lawn. I also had a lot of fun DCD’s jackbox games event last Fall.
Q: Where is your favorite place to eat on campus?
A: Has to be Starbucks or Einstein’s.
Q: What do you enjoy most about CCU?
A: I really enjoy working in a place with such an engaged faculty, and the range of classes I get to teach in DCD.
