Assistant Professor, English
School of Humanities

Affiliate Faculty, Culture and Theory

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

UCI School of Humanities Senate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2024-25
UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence Career Development Award, 2021
UF English Outstanding Teaching Performance Award, 2018-19

"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

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

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Society for Novel Studies

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Last updated
06/11/2025