Full-Time Academic Positions:

• Chair, Department of Gender, Africana, and Latin American Studies, New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ) 2022-present
• Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ) 2022-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ) 2016-2022
• Lecturer, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Keene State College (Keene, NH) 2015-2016
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) 2013-2015
• Lecturer, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ) 2011-2013

Education:

• PhD, Women’s Studies, York University (Toronto, ON)
• Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
• MA, Popular Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
• Honours BA, Cultural Studies and English (Double Major), Trent University (Peterborough, ON)

Publications:

Recent Journal Articles

2024.  “Gynaenoir: Reproductive Suffering in The Invisible Man, The Girl on a Train, and Gone Girl” to Women: A Cultural Review 35.2: 1-16.

2024.  “Zooming In: Courtrooms and Defendants Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic” with Esther Nir [1^st author] to Social and Legal Studies 31.5: 725-745.

2021.  “Engaging Politically Disenfranchised Students in Governance” with Esther Nir [1^st author]. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 21.2: 43-57.

2020.  “Black Feminist Thought and the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD: A Roundtable”, with Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin, Bettina Judd, Moya Bailey, Karen Flynn, Ayana Weekley, and Melissa Autumn White. Feminist Formations 32.2: 1-28.

Recent Book Chapters

2025.  “‘To Claim My Own Body’: Vaginismus as a Reproductive, Feminist, and Disability Justice Issue” to Introduction to Feminist Studies: Notes from the Field. Eds. Hemangini Gupta, Kelly Sharron, Carly Thomsen, and Abraham Weil. Routledge, forthcoming [February 2025].

2023.  “The PhD”, with Leslie Kern [2^nd author] and Sonja Thomas [3^rd author] to Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies Volume II. Eds. Catherine Orr and Ann Braithwaite. Routledge, 86-97.

2023.  “Going Carceral and The Neglectful Omissions of Prison Yoga Narratives”, with Tria Blu Wakpa [1^st author] to Carcerality Locally and Globally: Feminist Critiques of States of Violence. Ed. Shreerekha Pillai. University of Illinois Press, 166-189.