Writer writing from somewhere, usually.
Fiction, poetry, translations, and essays in various places.
Academic research on post-45 experimental literature/art and contentious politics, with essays on the creative constraint of the hunger strike and the racial element of avant-garde invention.
Publications
forthcoming translations
poems from Esther Tellermann’s L’Écorce, Atlanta Review
forthcoming essay
Corpse Collective, Ninth Letter
essay, 2025
Distorted and Iridescent, Minor Literature[s]
article, 2025
Radical Walking and the Avant-Garde, Cultural Critique
Constraint Against Constraint: Hunger Strikes and the Score, Comparative Literature
article, 2024
essay, 2023
review, 2021
Etel Adnan, Time and Shifting the Silence, Chicago Review
review, 2020
Srikanth Reddy, Underworld Lit, Chicago Review
Natural History, Columbia Review
poem, 2020
poems from Abdallah Zrika’s حشرة اللامنتھى, ArabLit Quarterly
translations, 2019
poems from Abdallah Zrika’s حشرة اللامنتھى, Banipal
translations, 2018
translations, 2018
poems from Esther Tellermann’s Le Troisième, Asymptote
I’m currently an Andrew W Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where I teach literature, theory, and film studies courses. At the moment, I’m researching the use of more analog forms of protest and resistance, such as how activists and artists looked to disrupt and benefit from postal systems in the 1960s and 70s. While revising a novel manuscript titled Trade, I am also starting a fiction project on biopiracy and pharmaceuticals.
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