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 Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and 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 completing Inside the Body of Black Feminism (Duke UP, 2025), a book on African diaspora engagements with organs and biological systems in the body, as well as working on projects on race & wellness, feminist ambivalence, and divorce.