• Lecturer in English Literature, University of Adelaide

I am a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, specialising in literary studies and modernism. My research interests include topics in American literature, modernism, music and literary studies, and African American Literature. My current research projects investigate the history of race and white-collar labor, as it was represented in American modernist literature; and also examine how classical musical composers and sound technologies influenced the politics of literary innovation in modernism and African American literature.

• –present Lecturer in American Studies , The University of Queensland

• 2017 UNSW Sydney, Doctor of Philosophy

• 2023 The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900-1960, Edinburgh University Press
• 2023 Passing as White-Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratisation of the Racial Imaginary, PMLA (forthcoming; under contract)
• 2023 Notes to Literature: Musical Scores as Reproduction in the Literary Text, The Edinburgh Guide to Literature and Sound Studies, eds. Groth and Murphet (forthcoming; under contract)
• 2023 Playing Amanuensis to Inner Urges: Masculinity, Authorial Anxiety, and Wallace Thurman's Typewriter, Modernism/Modernity (forthcoming; under contract)
• 2022 Classical Music, The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South. (pp. 157-161) edited by Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette and Monica Carol Miller. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003009924-41
• 2021 Fredric Jameson, Richard Wright, and the Black National Allegory., Affirmations: of the Modern, 7 (1), 1–29
• 2020 Current of music in Carson McCullers., Understanding the short fiction of Carson McCullers. (pp. 191-211) edited by Alison Bertolini and Casey Kayser. Macon, GA USA: Mercer University Press.
• 2020 “Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature. , American Literature, 92 (4), 623-652. doi: 10.1215/00029831-8780863
• 2019 Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman., E. L. Doctorow: A Reconsideration. (pp. 33-52) edited by Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
• 2019 The Métis and the Multiple "Me" in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding., Mississippi Quarterly, 72 (1), 69-93. doi: 10.1353/mss.2019.0002
• 2019 Gretel Adorno, the Typewriter: Sacrificial Lambs and Critical Theory's 'Risk of Formulation'. , Australian Feminist Studies, 34 (101), 309-324. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1679020
• 2017 Women's work: the bildungsromance of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. , Affirmations: of the Modern, 5 (1), 1-28.
• 2014 Alienated, Anxious, American: The Crisis of Coming of Age in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and the Late Harlem Bildungsroman., Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 20 (2), 1-17.

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