🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

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The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.

Excited to be part of this event next week!

Check out my post on Hypotheses, the grad student blog for the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. The article highlights some of the research I plan to present this summer. Give it a read!

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I was recently featured in the Baldwin Bulletin, a local paper in Baldwin County, Georgia, for the fellowship I received to study Flannery O’Connor in Milledgeville this upcoming summer. (The article is behind a pay-wall).

JAWS Journal published an article of mine on Virginia Woolf. You can check it out at the link below.

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

I recently wrote a short piece for Close Reading Blog about Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “The Barber.” Check it out here.

Hello everyone! Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives is a series of online conversations from scholars, artists and thinkers across the world and beyond disciplinary boundaries, coming in May 2025. We look forward to sharing more details soon!

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