About Me

I am an Americanist literary, cultural, and media studies scholar and writer whose work interrogates racial and economic identity formation in the media, particularly in moments of identity conflict between lived experience and stereotype or bias. I use digital humanities methods and close reading analyses to study how literature across the American canon constructs, subverts, or maintains difference. In my writing about my experience growing up in poverty in rural Texas before entering elite institutional spaces, I attempt to mobilize in action the theoretical interventions and strategies I locate in literary texts. 

I am currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University, funded by the Knight-Hennessy Global Leadership Fellowship.

My dissertation project centers the intersection of race and labor and the emergence of the American worker protagonist in Depression-era fiction, film, and other media. My scholarship is currently under review by Twentieth Century Literature and The Steinbeck Review.