Specialization(s)

• Aesthetics of Violence

• Appalachia

• Extraction

• Film Theory

• Gender and Race

Representative publications

Articles:

“Truck Sluts, Petrosexual Countrysides, and Trashy Environmentalism.” The “t4t” issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, edited by Cameron Awkward-Rich and Hil Malatino 9.1 (March 2022): 65-83.

“Tyson Kills the Mulberry Fork.” Arcadia no. 16 (Spring 2021), a publication of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

"An Emergency of Black Diamonds." Forthcoming in the "Black Appalachia" issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, guest-edited by Crystal Wilkinson

Chapters:

“Trans*Plantationocene.” The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities, ed. Seth Reno (London: Routledge, November 2021).

Reviews:

Book Review. Lee Mandelo’s Summer Sons. “Mandelo’s Debut Novel Summer Sons Explores Gender, Fuel and Ghosts in the Blood.” 100 Days in Appalachia. Posted January 11, 2022.

Book Review. Jack Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. “How Wild Can It Be?” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 9.2 (Summer 2022): 301-303.

Film Review. Joshua Zeman’s The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52. NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement. Posted August 19, 2021.

Book Review. Jane Caputi’s Call Your "Mutha'": A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 28.1 (Spring 2021): 386-387.

Awards

Thematic Fellowship with the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, “Mending and Transforming,” 2022-2023

Climate Hub Award for best graduate student essay, sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Climate and Society Grand Challenge Initiative, Spring 2021

Scholar of the Month, ASLE: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, January 2021

Southern and Appalachian Queer Artist Grant, co-sponsored by Southern Fried Queer Pride, Wussy Magazine, and Queer Appalachia, 2020

Runner-Up for the Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize, awarded by the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2022