Education
PhD, Comparative Literature
Posthuman Time and the Space of Hope: Images of Spatio-Temporal Overlap and Becoming in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy and Ben Okri’s Abiku Trilogy
University of Edinburgh, UK
School of Languages, Literature & Culture
MSc, Comparative Literature
University of Edinburgh, UK
School of Languages, Literature, & Culture
MA, Contemporary Art Theory, Contemporary Art Theory
University of Edinburgh, UK
Edinburgh College of Art
Certificate of Data Visualization
Foundational Data Programming for Visualization in R. Tableau & Excel
New York University New York, New York, USA
BA, Art History
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC USA
College of Arts + Architecture
Publications
“Politics of Minor Literature: Decolonized Space and Posthumanism in Xenogenesis Trilogy”. Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) Journal; Delhi, India. Vol 4.4, 2021
“The Piracy of Myth and the Seas of Discourse”. Mirror Lamp Press. Ireland. No. 3, 2021
“Toward a Dialogic Reception in Adaptation Studies: Bundle Theory and Fidelity Discourse in Contemporary Adaptations of Macbeth”. Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) Journal; Delhi, India. Vol. 2.4, 2019
Peer Review, Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) Journal; Delhi, India. Vol. 6.3, 2024
Peer Review, Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) Journal; Delhi, India. Vol. 4.4, 2020
Peer Review, Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) Journal; Delhi, India. Vol. 2.4, 2019
Peer Review and Advisory Board Member, XA Proceedings, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2018
Conferences & Symposiums
British Comparative Literature Association; Galway, Ireland, 2021:
“Speculative Spaces: Contrasting Narratives of Environment”
“Subaltern Perspectives on Geopolitical Interventions in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy”
International Symposium of Students of English, Italian and Croatian Studies, Split, Croatia, 2018-19:
“The Singular Instability: Action, the Ear, and the Eternal Return in Americanah and Wax Bandana”. Journal of the International Symposium of Students of English, Croatian and Italian Studies. Božanić, Petra (Ed.). Split: University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
Express the Repressed, 2018
XA Proceedings, University of Zagreb, 2018:
Advisory Board Member and Peer Review
President of Society of Art Historians 2013-2014, UNCC:
Mint Museum Regional Art History Symposium, Invited Presenter, School Representative “Teotihuacan: Cross-Cultural Communications of a Mesoamerican Giant”, 2014
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Art History Symposium “Theatrical Narration in Archaic Red-Figure Pottery”, 2014
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Art History Symposium “Teotihuacan: Cross-Cultural Communications of a Mesoamerican giant”, 2013
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, ARTH 1211-002 Art History
Survey I – Prehistory to 1300 CE. Dr. James Frakes.
Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, ARCH 4203/5203 Survey of Contemporary Theory: Architectural History 1968-present. Dr. Charles Davis.
Curatorial
Provenance Researcher | Curatorial Intern, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh UK, 2017:
Research and identification of provenance for new acquisitions and works from the SNGM collection with specific attention to works made between 1915-1945.
Organization and maintained lines of communication between Curatorial department, Library and Archives at SNGM
Liaison with Curatorial and Due Diligence teams
Art Director | Curator, Art Hole Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina USA, 2015-2016:
Collaboration with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer create a new Artist Run Initiative and Gallery promoting and exhibiting local, regional and national artists
Curation of gallery exhibitions – low brow/street art to relational aesthetics
Converging popular culture and discursive contemporary artistic practices
Connecting corporate funding to regional artistic practices
Synthesizing artist run cooperatives and institutional marketing platforms
Murals & Exhibitions
2023
Atrium Health, NoDa Primary Care, Mural, Charlotte, NC
Novant Health; Salisbury, NC, Mural, Salisbury, NC
2022
Novant Health, Presbyterian Hospital, Mural, Charlotte, NC. Volunteer Staff Mural
Novant Health, Presbyterian Hospital, Mural, Charlotte, NC. Women’s Business Resource Group
2016
Mercury Complex, NoDa, Mural, Charlotte, NC
2015
Neighborhood Theater Façade, 36th Street, Charlotte, NC
Abari Game Bar for PBR, N. Davidson St. Charlotte, NC
2014
Alfred & Williams, Eames Mural, South Cedar Street Charlotte, NC
PBR, “Steve Zissou” Mural, Fish Heads, Nags Head, NC
PBR, “Jaques Derrida” Mural, Chop Shop, Charlotte, NC
PBR, “How Do You Take Yours?” Mural, Blind Pig, Charlotte, NC
2013
Experimentations in Application: Searching for a New Problematic in Portraiture”, Solo Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
2012
Democratic National Convention, “Obama Profile”, Mural, Charlotte, NC
Matheson Bridge Mural, “A Song of a Carolina Spring–1775”, Charlotte, NC
2010
"Als Ich Chan: A Tribute to Noda”, Mural, Charlotte, NC
Permanent Collections
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Large Pour #1, Charlotte, NC
North Carolina Maritime Museum, White Ibis, Southport, NC