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 I recieved my PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY. My research and teaching focus on the relationship between literature, nature, and social/environmental justice. 


Degree Program University
Ph.D. CUNY College of New York

My Siena Experience

My Teaching Philosophy



What I Love About Siena

I love watching Siena freshman develop as independent thinkers. I also love the collegiality and sense of community among faculty and staff at Siena. 

My Professional Experience

Current Research

 I’m currently at work on an article that locates in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days (2001) a counternarrative to the ongoing elision of race from historical accounts of the making of America’s fossil fuel empire.