Academic Employment:
2022 - present
Professor of English & Gender and women’s Studies
Pomona College
2020-2021
Chair, Program in Gender and Women’s Studies.
Pomona College.
2013-2017
Chair, Program in Gender and Women’s Studies.
Pomona College.
2011-present
Associate Professor of English and the
Program in Gender and Women’s Studies.
Pomona College.
2008-2011
Chair, Program in Gender and Women’s Studies.
Pomona College.
2004-2011
Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track. Joint Appointment in Department of English and the Program in Gender and Women’s Studies.
Pomona College.
Education:
2004
Stanford University. M.A.,
Ph.D. Program in Modern Thought and Literature.
Committee: Arnold Rampersad, Estelle Freedman, Sianne Ngai, Linda Hutcheon.
1998
University of Toronto. M.A., English.
1996
York University. B.A.,
Specialized Honours, Magna Cum Laude, English.
Selected Awards, Fellowships
& Grants:
2017-2018
American Council of Learned Societies
Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty.
Residency Site: Princeton University Department of English/American Studies.
(Postponed for one year).
2016
Wig Distinguished Teaching Award.
Pomona College.
2015
Queer Faculty Teacher and Mentor of the Year.
Claremont Colleges.
2012-2013
Charles Warren Center for American History
at Harvard University, Faculty Fellow.
Seminar in “Everyday Life: Textures of the Ordinary, the Persistent, the Repeated.”
2013
Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize.
American Studies Association.
2013
Best Book.
Association for the Study of Food and Society.
2012
Queer Faculty Teacher and Mentor of the Year.
Claremont Colleges.
2004-2017
Internal Grants for Travel, Research,
Sabbatical and Publication Subventions.
Pomona College.
2007-2008
Visiting Scholar.
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University.
2007
National Endowment for the
Humanities Sabbatical Grant (Internal Award).
2005-2006
Mellon Foundation Faculty Partnership Grant with Professor
Amy Bentley of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies.
New York University.
2005
Queer Faculty Teacher and Mentor of the Year.
Claremont Colleges.
2004
Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship
.
(Declined).
2003-2004
Dissertation Fellowship.
Stanford University Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
2003-2004
Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship.
2003-2004
Research Institute for the Center for Studies
in Race and Ethnicity Dissertation Fellowship.
Colloquia & Conferences:
2018
Co-Convener with Tavia Nyong'o. In/Civility. C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
2016
Convener: Roundtable in Honor of Sylvia Wynter.
Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies. American Studies Association.
2013
Co-convener with Robin Bernstein (Harvard University) for
Working Session of the American Society for Theatre Research.
“Everyday Life.” Houston, Texas, November 2013.
2012
Co-convener with Robin Bernstein (Harvard University) for
Working Session of the American Society for Theatre Research.
“Everyday Life.” Nashville, Tennessee. November 1-4, 2012.
2012
Holmes Memorial Lecture 2012: Sianne Ngai.
Pomona College.
2012
As Yet Unnamed: Queer Theories and the Nineteenth Century.
March 2-3. Speakers: Dana Luciano, Uri McMillan, Heather Love, Jennifer Doyle, Mark Rifkin, Sarah Mesle, Rodrigo Lazo, Kyla Schuller, Molly McGarry, Chris Looby, Jordan Alexander Stein, Heather Lukes, Aaron Kunin, Jesse Aleman, Cynthia Wu, Chris Guzaitis, Gustavus Stadler, Elizabeth Freeman, Peter Coviello, Karen Tongson.
2010-2011
Fear of A Feminist Planet: Global and Indigenous Feminisms
Gender and Women Studies Speaker Series 2010-2011.
Speakers: Andrea Smith, Svati Shah, Sherene Hafez, Piya Chatterjee, Aisha Finch, Mishuana Goeman.