Perry-Williams Postdoctoral Fellow in English, College of Wooster (through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges)
Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Program (PAIMI) Advisory Council Member, Disability Rights Maryland
I am a writer, scholar-activist, and academic.
My dissertation in American Studies (College of William & Mary, 2020) examined Native women and youth’s environmental activism and narratives of assimilation and resistance to settler colonialism, weaving in a critical disability studies framework.
Recently, I supported Susan Burch and Ella Callow in creating the CFP for a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly on disability and Indigenous lives, cultures, and experiences-past, present, and future.
Former work
- Critical Disability Studies Caucus Co-Chair, American Studies Association
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies, College of Franklin & Marshall
- Archives Assistant, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
- Inclusive Design Council Member, The Kelsey
- Volunteer Operations Associate, Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, & Empowerment
Scholarly publications
- “Review of ‘Holding Up the Sky,’ or Naming Maine as Wabanaki Homelands” (review in Disability Studies Quarterly, 2021)
- “Occupied Land is an Access Issue: Interventions in Feminist Disability Studies and Narratives of Indigenous Activism” (article in Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 2020)
- “Settler States of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, and Native Women’s Crip Interventions” (dissertation in American Studies, College of William & Mary, 2020)
- “Access, tradition and belonging at ‘the Alma Mater of the Nation’” (essay in Remaking the American College Campus, eds. Jonathan Silverman & Meghan M. Sweeney, McFarland, 2016)
General publications
- “6 Things White Educators Can Do to Support Native LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit Students” (article for GLSEN, 2021)
- “Do You Want to Play?: A Children’s Book on Autistic Play Written by Autistics” (review in Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, 2020)
- “Interview: Practicing Critical Care Through COVID-19 and Beyond – Epistemic Unruliness 27” (podcast episode for Always Already with James Padiloni Jr. and Sarmistha Talukdar)
Courses taught
- Health, Land, Sovereignty
- Narratives of Indigenous Activism
- Disability in American Culture
Professional affiliations
- The American Studies Association
- Modern Language Association
- Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
- Society for Disability Studies
- The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists