Assistant Professor, Literature

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Degrees

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • Poupou Huia Te Reo, Te Wānanga o Raukawa

Areas of Interest

  • Indigenous Literatures
  • Ecopoetics
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Literatures of the Pacific and Oceania
  • New Media and Game Studies
  • Science and Literature

Courses at Wake Forest

  • ENG 175 Indigenous Video Games
  • ENG 371 Irradiated Spacetimes

Selected Publications

  • “Radioactive spacetimes and the quantum cosmologies of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner.” Australian Feminist Studies (27 November 2023). 
  • “Come Armageddon or high water:” Kānaka Maoli cosmologies in the ecopoetry of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World).” Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, edited by Julie Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Orchid Tierney (September 2023). 
  • “Auroral heliotropes of the Anthropocene and wandering the “quiet apocalypse” of The Long Dark (2017).” Playing to Save the World: Environmental Humanities and the Video Game, edited by Kelly I. Aliano and Adam Crowley. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming 2024.
  • (In revision) “Our sea of caesium: atomically-standardized time and atomically-irradiated space in a nuclear Pacific.” Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture Special Issue “Radioactive Empires: The Nuclear Relations of Coloniality.”
  • (In revision) “’THIS WHOLE PLACE IS A FISH:’ Refuse, refuge, and subjectivities of surplus in a Moeraki Midden.” Special Issue of Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies on “Eco-Artivism in Oceania.”