Research Materials and Experience

Publications

• “Review of Arthur L. Little Jr.’s White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture, and the Elite.” The Shakespeare Newsletter, vol. 72, no. 1, 2024. Book Review.  Link to online publication. 

 

• “no sabo kid.” Latin@ Literature. July 2, 2024. Creative Publication. Link to online publication.

Awards

TAMU English Department Summer Dissertation Fellowship

• Awarded a doctoral research fellowship to alleviate teaching responsibilities to focus on dissertation research.

TAMU RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship

• Awarded a doctoral research fellowship to conduct archival research for the continued development of The Blackspeare Project.

TAMU Race and Ethnic Studies Research Leadership Program

• Awarded to lead an undergraduate research team for two semesters that facilitated the revision, editing, and publication of The Blackspeare Project.

3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)

• Participated as a finalist in 3MT, a university-wide public-oriented research competition, on Black Shakespeare adaptations and the importance of narrative-based research

Conferences (selected)

• “Intercessor or Nag? Reimagining the Female Saint of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Spring 2024. 

 

• “#ShakeRace: Empowering Early-Career Educators through Open-Access.” Folio Futures Symposium. Organizer and presenter. Spring 2024.

 

• “'And then I loved thee / and show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle': An Afro-Pessimistic, Ecocritical Rereading of Julie Taymor’s The Tempest." Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Spring 2024. 

 

• “The Blackspeare Project: Developing Post-Secondary Teaching Resources for Shakespeare Scholars.” Global Digital Humanities Symposium. Virtual. Spring 2024. 

 

• “Collaborating for Scalable Impact: Digital Design for Student Success.” Texas Conference for Student Success (TXCSS). Fall 2023.
  • Collaborative presentation with Christopher Manes, Kimberly Stelly, Sarah LeMire, Gwendolyn Morel, and Terri Pantuso

 

• “‘This thing of darkness’: An Afro-Pessimistic Rereading of Julie Taymor’s The Tempest.” British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad Festival). Fall 2023. 

 

• “Emergent Participatory Teaching (EPT) Praxis in a non-ESL Setting: Utilizing ESL Methods in Native Speaker Classrooms.” TAMU English Department, Methods Panel. Spring 2023. 

 

• “‘We come and clearly learn how to die’: Articulating a Black Aesthetic in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy.” TAMU Student Research Week (SRW). Spring 2023. 

 

• “A Transgressive Haiti: Black and White Reactions to Voodoo Embodied on the Stage.” TAMU History Graduate Student Organization (HGSO). Spring 2023. 

 

• “A Black(faced) Macbeth.” Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA). Fall 2022. 

 

• “‘To see the statue of our queen’: Reading Mariology in the Temporality and Spatiality of The Winter’s Tale.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Fall 2022. 

 

• “‘Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword:’ The Marriage of Political and Social Equals in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad Festival). Virtual. Summer 2021. 
  

 

• “Cry fie upon my grave’: The Virgin Mary, Hermoine, and Mariological Moments in The Winter’s Tale.” British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad Festival). Virtual. Spring 2020. 
  

Guest-Lectures (selected)