Faculty Projects
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (co-edited with Anjali Nerlekar), forthcoming, 2024.
"Re-envisioning the Role of the Humanities Center in the 21st-century University," funded by the Mellon Foundation.
2022 Teaching Innovation Grant for "Challenging Anti-Blackness in Literary Studies."
"Black Queer Representation, Intimacy and Violence," a conversation inspired by the Rose exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love.
Public Humanities Grant for her collaborative project “Women Writing” Écrire au féminin.
Editing Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology
Writing a book about the Mass Central Rail Trail
Dorothy Kim: Winner of the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Book Prize for Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities.
2023 Mandel Faculty Grant for Public Humanities/Community Engagement for his project, Urban Pastoral.
Recall this Book Podcast
Novel Dialogue Podcast
The B-Side Books series at Public Books
Co-Director, Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, a program to provide educational opportunities for people impacted by the criminal justice system. BEJI partners with Boston-area prisons, jails, re-entry programs, and other organizations.
Co-Director, Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, a program to provide educational opportunities for people impacted by the criminal justice system. BEJI partners with Boston-area prisons, jails, re-entry programs, and other organizations.
Co-Director, The Elegy Project. This public poetry initiative distributes poems on cardstock for strangers as a way to make our shared world more interesting and grief less lonely.
Current books: The Machine Stops: Modernism, Human Fungibility, and the Critique of Secular Hope and Inventing Farewell
"Petrarch in Global Translation." Funded in part by the NOMIS Foundation.
Teaching Shakespeare in Rwanda, with Partners in Health.
Recipient of a Teaching Across the Disciplines: 2022-23 Team Teaching Grant for "If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree: Expressive Verse and Music in Renaissance England and Italy," in partnership with Sarah Mead (MUS, Medieval and Renaissance Studies).