Research
Current research project
Knowledge Production from the Plantation Zone
Previous research project
My current research examines the role that the plantation, as a both an economy and a space, played in scientific, cultural and literary production in the U.S South and the Caribbean. I explore the way knowledge about and from the plantation was crucial in developing categories such as race, gender, and the environment from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
The Strategy of Haunting: Rhetoric and Counter-Rhetoric of Whiteness in the Post-Reconstruction Southern Imaginary
My previous research project focuses on the evolution and formation of the American national narrative, with a particular attention to the Civil War and the period of the Reconstruction. I'm interested in the way the post-civil war imaginary has been tailored around the question of sectionalism and how this impacts the way class, race and gender are understood during that crucial period of the country's history.
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
Tales of Possession and Dispossession: Narrative Economies of Loss and Grief in Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sealight (2013)
Sillages Critiques, Spring 2018
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Pouvoir (rire) de l’horreur : humour noir et misère sociale du Poor White dans le Sud d’Erksine Caldwell.
Humoresques (42), Spring 2017
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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
“Faulkner”
“Flannery O’Connor’s Good Country People”
“Gothic Hero-Villain”
“Gothic short stories
“Uncanny”
“Unreliable Narrator”
Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopaedia of the Stories that Speak to Our Deepest Fears.
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Ed. Matt Cardin, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 2017
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"Of Flesh and Bones: Incarnations of the Silenced Past in William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell’s Early Southern Gothic Short Stories"
Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture.
Ed. E.G. Anderson, T. Hagood, and D.C. Turner, Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2015
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