Literary Studies
Jan. 2023. “The Social Rights Imaginary of the Postcolonial Debt Novel.” Modern Language Association.
June 2022. “Remaking Rights: Defining the Postcolonial Social Rights Narrative.” American Comparative Literature Association.
May 2022. “Against Narrative Empathy: Reimagining Human Rights and Responsibility.” Feeling Implicated: Affect, Responsibility, Solidarity. UCLA.
Jan. 2022. “Informal Empire and Caribbean Literary Form: Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Modern Language Association.
Nov. 2021. “Remembering Self-Determination in the African Post-Bildungsroman.” Memory Studies Association, Africa Chapter.
Oct. 2021. “Reciprocity and Human Rights in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
July 2021. “The Postcolonial Novel in the Age of Human Rights and Humanitarianism: A Comparative Analysis of The Memory of Love and Anil’s Ghost.” Memory Studies Association.
June 2019. “The Implicated Subject and Sublime Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City.” Memory Studies Association.
March 2019. “Traumatic Witnessing and the Implicated Subject in Teju Cole’s Open City.” American Comparative Literature Association.
Aug. 2018. “The Global President: ‘Speculative Remembrance’ and the Disjunctive Human Subject in Anthropocene Film.” Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies Summer School.
April 2018. “‘Finding New Metaphors’: Adamic Poetics in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.” Rice University Graduate Symposium.
May 2017. “An Epic Where Every Line is Erased.” UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Conference.
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Writing Pedagogy
April 2022. “Community Norms and Student/Instructor Positionality.” UCLA Writing Programs’ Anti-Racist Reading Group.
May 2021. “Community Building and Collaborative Learning.” UCLA Writing Programs “Creating Connections” Symposium. Workshop Co-Leader.
Jan. 2021. “Creating Room for Conversation in the English Disciplinary Writing Classroom.” University of California Writing Programs Conference.
Sept. 2020. “Toward an Anti-Racist Memory Studies Pedagogy.” UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies.
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Invited Talks
Feb. 2021. “Human Rights, Material Equality, and the Implicated Subject.” Forum on Michael Rothberg’s The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies.
Nov. 2018. Guest Lecture on J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. Introduction to Postcolonial Literature, Prof. Ali Behdad. UCLA.
Dec. 2017. Guest Lecture on “The Poetry of Derek Walcott.” Introduction to Postcolonial Literature, Prof. Ali Behdad. UCLA.
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