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 affiliated faculty in the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies and the African & African Diaspora Studies department. From 2022-2025, I served 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. My third book, Inside the Body of Black Feminism (Duke UP, 2026), centers on African diaspora engagements with organs and biological systems in the body. I’m currently working on book-length projects on travel, leisure, & wellness cultures; feminist ambivalence; and divorce, as well as launching a research team on mobile reproductive health.