Research

My research investigates cycles of incarceration—figurative and literal—and how art helps us break them.

I am especially interested in narratives of incarceration as they apply to addiction and intimate relationships. Crisis and spectacle often dominate these narratives, while their repetitive, ordinary realities disappear from view.

Research interests

• Addiction Studies and Narrative Theory
• Health and Medical Humanities
• Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Autotheory
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Prison Education and Abolitionist Pedagogy
• Comics and Visual Narrative
• Art as Protest
• Hip-Hop Studies
• French and American Literature and Culture

Selected scholarship and presentations

• “Picture (Im)perfect: Comics in Narrative Medicine,” Medical Humanities, 2025
• “Bad Romance: On Writing Difficult Relationships,” AWP, 2026
• “Addiction Studies in the Humanities and in Prison,” HECAOD, 2025
• “An Illusive Remembrance: How Comics and Museums Spatialize Memory,” CUNY, 2024
• “The Ubume Challenge,” Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium, 2021

My work has received the Brian McHale Award for Best Graduate Paper in Narrative Studies, Ohio State’s English Graduate Human Rights Award, the Graduate Student Research Showcase Award, and has been featured in the Journal of American Folklore.