Assistant Professor, English
School of Humanities

Affiliate Faculty, Culture and Theory

18th- and 19th-Century Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, Critical Theory, Labor History, Black Studies

"Estranged Land and Labor in the DuBoisian Black Belt," American Literary Realism, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/944842.

"'Flaming Madras handkerchiefs and Calico Blazing with Crimson and Scarlet Flowers': Antebellum World Systems in Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative," Nineteenth Century Studies, https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ncs/article-abstract/doi/10.5325/ninecentstud.35.0033/383079/Flaming-Madras-handkerchiefs-and-calico-blazing?redirectedFrom=fulltext

"The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy," MELUS, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/853849.

“The Aestheticization of Politics: The Case of Lynching Photographs,” Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/basu-aestheticization-politics-case-lynching-photographs

“Reading Los Angeles’ Urban Uprisings: From Watts to Rodney King,” Modern Language Studies, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45387695.

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia & The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2023.

Rare Book School, University of Virginia and the American Antiquarian Society, 2023

UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence Career Development Award, 2021

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Intersections Doctoral Research Grant, 2019-2020

Dissertation Fellowship, Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Endowment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2019-20

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

American Studies Association

Modern Language Association

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Last updated
04/05/2025