Research

CO-EDITED COLLECTIONS

Eds. Aaron Pinnix, Axel Volmar, Fernando Esposito, Nora Binder. Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities. Culture & Theory Series, Vol. 290 (transcript Verlag: Bielefeld, 2023). ISBN: 9783839469835. Open Access Publication:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/e3/7a/1b/oa9783839469835.pdf.

 

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

(co-authored with Axel Volmar, Fernando Esposito, Nora Binder) “Introduction.” Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities (transcript Verlag: Bielefeld, 2023): 11-29. Read Here.

“The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead.” Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities (transcript Verlag: Bielefeld, 2023): 227-233. Read Here.

“‘Will plastic make life impossible?’: Pacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic.” The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Eds. Julia Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Orchid Tierney (Routledge: New York, 2023): 176-184. Read Here.

 

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“America’s Intracoastal Waterway: Understanding the Nation Through Narratives About Infrastructure.” Shima Journal, vol. 17. No 2 (Winter 2023): 6-19. Read Here.

“Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Elemental America, special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA): A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture, edited by Moritz Ingwersen and Timo Müller, vol. 70, is. 1. (Spring 2022). Read Here.

Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News: Race, the 1967 Riots, and ‘Dead Neighbors.’” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 60 no. 4 (Summer 2021). Read Here.

“Sargassum in the Black Atlantic: Entanglement and the abyss in Bearden, Walcott, and Philip.” Atlantic Studies vol. 16, no. 4 (September/October 2019): 423-451. Read Here.
This article was selected to receive the 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Prize.

“Unending Fries: Mechanical Repetition in Joe Wenderoth’s Letters to Wendy’s.Radical Philosophy Review vol. 16, no. 1 (2013): 159-168. Read Here.

 

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS

Plastics are Anti-Archives, with Dr. Aaron Pinnix.” Podcast Interview on UnChefed, Hosted by Matt Carden and Brendan Costello. September 14, 2021. 

Book Review of Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition: A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing. Broadview Press, 2019. Supernatural Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 174-177. 

Learning to Breath Underwater: The Tidalectics of Rukeyser’s ‘Anemone.’ Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive. March 1, 2019.

 

TEACHING-FOCUSED DIGITAL PROJECTS

Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions. January 3, 2016.
My goal with this project was to construct an accessible and engaging introduction for the novice scholar (such as a high school student), to the varieties of Caribbean revolts and revolutions, and to help elucidate the relationships and differences among them. For more on this project, see here.

 

SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS

“The Changeling of Chaplin, CT” and “Invasive Species,” Supernatural Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall 2023: 113-116. Read Here

Migrant: A Triptych. (un)common sense, vol. 1, Displacement. June 12, 2019. 

“Autobiographic, Thanatotic, Poetic” and interview. Fordham Observer vol. 38, no. 5 (March 30, 2017): 11.

Poem For Meaux, on Poetry.Yes, Poetry.  Orig. published June 18, 2014, updated June 11, 2018. You can hear me reading the poem here.

“Icarus,” “Welcome to Earth, Poet!” and “The Conclusion First.” [Carriage Return] (2014): 8-10.

“A Small Film” and “there’s no treasure on this map.” Stolen Island no. 2 (2013): 144-149.

“Love Letters.” The Blink no. 1 (2009): 18.

“Southern Gothic.” The New Quarterly no. 106 (Spring 2008): 26-27.