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Academic Interests & Creative Inquiry

I am most interested in observation, analysis, and production rooted in language, whether it be lettered or physical. I see creative nonfiction as the literary equivalent of choreography, of creatively putting together truth and references to create emotional, embodied reactions. I value art impacting art, impacting art, and so forth. Within this continuing and ever-growing loop of interdisciplinary inquiry, my main academic and professional goal lies in producing academically-engaged creative responses that address both human concerns and the dialogues surrounding them.

SCholarly Influences

Walter Benjamin
Alain de Botton
Zora Neale Hurston
Julia Kristeva
Georges Batailles
Fred Moten

Recent Books Shaping My Thinking

Ways of Seeing
John Berger

Ezili's Mirrors
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

All Things are Too Small
Becca Rothfeld

Breathing
Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Monogamous Mind, Polyamorous Terror
Brigitte Vasallo

Sensoria
McKenzie Wark

Completed Coursework

Fordham University

Composition II 

Finite Mathematics 

Philosophy of Human Nature 

Intro to Cultural Anthropology 

Introduction to Spanish II

Faith and Critical Reason

Philosophical Ethics

Texts and Contexts

Race, Identity, and Globalization

Intermediate Spanish I

Health and Disease I 

Latino History

Queer Theories 

Introduction to Peace & Justice 

Intermediate Spanish II 

Spanish Language & Literature

Health and Disease II

Scripture and Trauma

Culture and Culture Change 

Foundations of Psychology 

Taboo: Anthropology of the Forbidden

Queer Caribbean Diasporas 

Statistics

Multicultural Psychology

Intro to Criminal Justice 

Law and Psychology 

Comparative Cultures 

Research Methods Lab 

Hazards, Disasters & Human Experience 

Memory Laboratory

Social Psychology

Forensic Psychology 

Understanding Historical Change: Latin America

Psychopathology 

Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Humanitarian Aid

Disgust in Literature & Psychology 

New York University

Genre Trouble: Monstrous Texts and Experiments in Writing

Interdisciplinarity w/ Focus in Media Studies

Exhibition Planning and Design

Inventing Futures: The Art of Worlding

Writing Beyond Belief: Crafting Nonfiction Beyond the Sacred and Secular

Spitting Image: Experiments in Poetry and Criticism

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