BA, University of Michigan, 2001; MA, New York University, 2007; PhD, New York University, 2011
Postdoctoral teaching fellow, New York University, 2011-2012
Early African American and American literature, maritime and 18th and 19th century, British and American
Slave violence, ship mutiny, abolitionist and Enlightenment rhetoric
" 'Getting Ready for A Gale': The Problem of Violence in the Age Abolition."