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
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).