My academic research focuses on examining how neoliberal market dynamics and the many possibilities of mass and social media favor the exhibition of the biographies and bodies of literary authors. My dissertation analyzes the commodification and manipulation of the contemporary authorial figure, as well as the possibilities of agency that certain writers have been able…

The CLACLS Travel Fellowship allowed me to cover transportation to and from Asuncion, Paraguay to carry out data recollection and exploratory research during the summer months of 2019. I could retrieve databases related to demographic indicators, census databases, and of carceral population. I additionally carried out exploratory archival research at the Paraguayan Supreme Court’s Human…

Thanks to the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship in 2019 I visited Mexico City to do archival research in the Hemeroteca Nacional de México (The National Newspaper Archive of Mexico). This summer’s research gave me the opportunity to have a broader approach to Nineteenth Century Magazines created by women writers. Due to the direct access to…

 Within Guyanese racial and religious discourses, Madrasis are a minority of the South Asian population who embarked for the New World, or British Guiana, between 1838 and 1917 via the southern port of the Madras Presidency of the British Empire as sugar plantation laborers. Particular sonic practices have become emblematic of Madrasi religious and racial…