• Black Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies
• Life Writing 
• Law and Literature / Cultural Legal Studies / Critical Race Theory
• Queer Studies
• Critical Kinship Studies

As Senior Research and Teaching Associate at UZH, my work revolves around American studies. While my courses span a range of eras and themes, my research primarily asks how various forms of belonging are forged in and through literature, and how race, sexuality and the law shape such attachments. My first book opens with the decriminalization of interracial marriage in 1967 to analyze how Americans sought to culturally legitimize interracial kinship at the turn of the twenty-first century through autobiographical practices (under contract with Wayne State UP). My second book project tracks enslavement as a throughline in the formation of American national literature and traces the ambivalent ways in which German readers identified with American narratives about slavery--from translations of slaver narratives in the antebellum era to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind in Nazi Germany and beyond.