Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“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.

 

Other Publications

Solicited 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. https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/reviews/book-review-by-a-pinnix-of-the-mad-scientists-guide-to-composition.

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

 

Digital Projects

Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions. January 3, 2016.
My goal with Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions was to construct an accessible and engaging introduction for the novice scholar (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
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.