Assistant Professor, English
School of Humanities

Affiliate Faculty, Culture and Theory

18th- and 19th-Century American, African American Studies, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Critical Theory

My research areas include eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Anglophone Atlantic Literatures, Black Atlantic Studies, and Labor History. My current book project, The Anti-Robinsonade: Slaves, Criminals and Servants in the Early Anglophone Atlantic, reads Black Atlantic literature alongside penal history and the histories of slavery and abolition in the long eighteenth century, and offers a new account of how extra-economic violence racialized New World labor.

"Estranged Land and Labor in the DuBoisian Black Belt." American Literary Realism (University of Illinois Press), Forthcoming

"'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 (Penn State UP) https://doi.org/10.5325/ninecentstud.35.0033

"The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy," MELUS (Oxford UP) https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac012

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

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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellowship, 2023

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

UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence Career Development Award, 2021

UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Mellon 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
07/26/2024