As a scholar of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies, I am committed to understanding how languages, images, and narratives construct and contest a sense of the world.

My research engages postcolonial theory, visual culture, and comparative media to explore the social and technological infrastructures that mediate aesthetic experience. I am drawn to literature and film not only for their capacity to reflect histories and challenge dominant narratives, but for their power to open new ways of seeing and thinking.

At the heart of my scholarship is a commitment to the humanities as a space for critical, creative, and transformative inquiry. I carry these values into my work as an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, where I also serve as the editor of the journal Comparative Literature.