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degrees PhD – Columbia University (2004) M.Phil. – Columbia University (2000) M.A. – Columbia University (1997) A.B. – Washington University (1996) teaching I teach classes in African-American literary and cultural studies, modern American popular culture, and Anglophone literatures after colonialism. I generally teach in one of two modes, either working to train students to reconcile [...]

Went last night to see Nikky Finney read at the Smith Poetry Center. I know! I should have posted before I went, in case you wanted to go too. But don’t worry, you can click here to see the rest of the schedule. Finney’s work is quite nice; always engaging in its visuality, and completely [...]

It’s almost time for classes. I must say, this should be a good year. I’m sponsoring the poet Suheir Hammad as a Copeland Fellow, and I think the group in general is pretty fabulous. I hosted the filmmaker Prashant Bhargava (dir., Sangam, 2004) here in 2006, as he worked on developing his new film, Patang. [...]