About me

After attending Rutgers (undergraduate) and UCLA (graduate), I began my career at Georgetown University, where I helped to build curriculum, programming, and connections around feminist, African American, and African Studies, and in 2016 helped to establish the African American Studies department. In 2019, I joined the faculty in the English Department of The University of Texas at Austin, where I am also core faculty in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in African & African Diaspora Studies. As of 2022, I serve as Director of UT’s Humanities Institute, leading its transformation into a research institute to support faculty as well as graduate & undergraduate student research. Collaboration and creating pathways for others to shine are the hallmarks of my professional life, including the Black Feminism on the Edge Book Series. I’m currently working on Inside the Body of Black Feminism, a book on African diaspora engagements with the inside of the body, as well as a books on feminist ambivalence and divorce.