Education

University of Illinois at Chicago               

PhD English – Literary Studies, May 2017

Dissertation: “The Double Bind of Black Manhood: The Language of Masculinity in African American Literature, 1800-1900”

Advisers: Terence Whalen (chair), David Schaafsma, John Huntington, Natasha Barnes, Peter Coviello, Jeff Sellen

General Examination Fields: Rhetoric, American Literature to 1900, Literature of the Heroic

MA English – Literary Studies, August 2007