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Assistant Professor, English
Professional Service
- American Studies Association.
Role: Co-Chair.
National Minority Scholars Committee (Coordinate professional development panels at national conference and facilitate the Richard Yarborough Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring).
07/2023 - present
- Modern Language Association (MLA).
Role: Moderator.
MLA Convention 2021, Panel sponsored by American Literature Society: “Revolution in the Ruin: Historicism and New Horizons for Black Writers during the Cold War".
01/10/2021 - 01/10/2021
Internal Service
- U of U Black Faculty and Staff Association. Speakers' Committee for 5th annual "State of Black Utah" Summit.
Member (Proposed and contacted prospective speakers for student/community-facing panel).,
03/03/2021 - 04/10/2021.
University service.
- Department of English Executive Committee.
Member (Serve in an advisory capacity to the Chair and assist with annual review of faculty merit),
01/2021 - 12/2021.
Department service.
- Department of English Speaker Series Committee.
Member (Assisted with planning, coordination, and hosting of professional symposium),
01/2021 - 12/2021.
Department service.
- Department of English Antiracism Programming Committee.
Member (Assisted with analysis of data from department climate survey and developing policy recommendations),
01/01/2021 - 12/09/2021.
Department service.
- Department of English Antiracism Programming Committee.
Member (Developed faculty/student climate survey, held focus group with graduate students, and assist with programming and policy recommendations),
08/2020 - 12/2020.
Department service.
- Department of English Speaker Series Committee.
Member (Arrange colloquia devoted to faculty work-in-progress and coordinate visiting scholars in literary studies and connected field),
05/2020 - 12/2020.
Department service.
- Department of English Executive Committee.
Member (Serve in an advisory capacity to the Chair and assist with annual review of faculty merit),
01/2020 - 12/2020.
Department service.
- Department of English, SLCC Task Force.
Support relationship building between U of U and SLCC faculty and students,
10/2019 - 11/2019.
Department service.
- University of Utah Black Faculty and Staff Association .
Regularly attend meetings and participated in graduate student mentoring workshop ,
09/10/2019 - 04/11/2020.
University service.
- Department of English Executive Committee.
Member (Serve in an advisory capacity to the Chair and assist with annual review of faculty merit),
09/2019 - 12/2020.
Department service.
- Department of English Speaker Series Committee.
Arrange colloquia devoted to faculty work-in-progress and coordinate visiting scholars in literary studies and connected field,
08/15/2019 - 12/15/2020.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- Committee Member for the Book Buzz discussion guides, sponsored by the Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs, Utah State Library, and Utah Humanities.
09/2022 - 09/2023
- Summer Book Club Leader for CurlyMe! Organization (Salt Lake City).
07/2021 - 08/2023
- Senior Thesis Mentor for Salt Lake Center for Science Education (SLCSE).
11/2019 - 05/2020
Outreach
- Gave two literature lectures for Salt Lake Center for Science Education (SLCSE) AP English class. Senior Thesis Mentor for SLCSE student; assisted with public exhibit informing participants about Black literary figures that was featured in West View media paper and website.
01/2020 - 09/2020
Honors & Awards
- David D. Anderson Award for Outstanding Essay in Midwestern Literary Studies.
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature,
06/01/2023
- Transformative Intersectional Collective (TRIC) Research Fellow, supported by the Mellon Foundation.
University of Utah College of Transform,
04/2023
- Faculty Research Fellow.
University of Utah,
08/22/2022
- Mary Blinn Poetry Prize.
After Hours Press,
04/12/2022
- Transformative Intersectional Collective (TRIC) Pedagogy Fellow, supported by the Mellon Foundation.
University of Utah College of Transform,
01/25/2022