MICRO-BIO

• I completed my PhD in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa (USA) in spring 2018 and I currently teach in the University Writing Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. My research interrogates the rhetoric...More

  I completed my PhD in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa (USA) in spring 2018 and I currently teach in the University Writing Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. My research interrogates the rhetorics of race/ism/ialization in the United States with a particular focus on the rhetorics, memories, and affects that circulate public culture and which normalize racialized state violence as a form of common sense, and the radical meaning-making practices that aim to disrupt these long developed logics that underwrite such erasures, elisions, and obfuscations in civil society. My research informs and is informed by my classroom and institutional practices and commitments, and centers an anti-racist critical pedagogy that centers the works of scholars of color and theorists within the black radical tradition (both academic and activist). 

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EXPERIENCE

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Lecturer
  • University Writing Program
  • Present

EDUCATION

• University of Iowa

  • PhD
  • August 2014 to May 2018

  Communication Studies Department (Rhetoric and Public Advocacy emphasis)

• Syracuse University

  • Master of Arts
  • August 2012 to May 2014

  Communication and Rhetorical Studies Department

• University of Wisconsin-Stout

  • Bachelor of Science
  • January 2006 to May 2012

  Professional Communication and Emerging Media Minors: Speech Communication, English literature, Philosophy

Interests

• Social Movements

• Memory Studies

• Black Radical Tradition

• Social Change

• Communication Studies

• Anti Blackness

• Critical Race Theory

• Critical Pedagogy

Links

• Curriculum Vitae
• Academia.edu Personal Page