I received a PhD in Comparative Literature with a Critical Theory Emphasis from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. My graduate work focused on labor practices, gender, and cultural production in US literature and film. In the past two years I've expanded my inquiry to contemporary labor and culture in a transnational context. I am also interested in the ways digital technologies affect all of these categories, and especially in the progressive uses of these technologies.
Before starting work on Visible Margin at #Alt-Academy I served as a guest editor for a special issue of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society on the topic of "Contemporary Labor and Cultural Exchange." I currently teach Composition at Lane Community College in Eugene, OR, participate in a critical theory research group at the University of Oregon, and volunteer at UO's Wired Humanities Project. I am developing a project about the politics of solidarity in the era of neoliberalism.
