Faglige interesser/spesialitet
Afroamerikansk litteratur, karibisk litteratur, svart britisk litteratur, postkolonial teori, verdenslitteratur på engelsk, modernisme, estetisk teori, lyrikk, populærmusikk, "the black radical tradition" og interseksjonalitet.
Utdanning
University of Oxford, DPhil in English (PhD)
Universitetet i Oslo, Mastergrad i Allmenn litteraturvitenskap
Forskning
Postdoktorprosjekt: “The colour distinction: subversions of high and low culture in the Harlem Renaissance”, Literature Rights and Imagined Communities, Universitetet i Oslo.
"'Let us look at the Immediate Background of this Young Poet': Langston Hughes and the Sociological Critique of Taste", African American Review. Forthcoming.
Doktorgradsavhandling: "Critical Readings of Perceptual Models in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson: Bass Culture", University of Oxford
Undervisning
Universitetet i Oslo, Førstelektor, allmenn litteraturvitenskap. Emneansvar: LIT1303, Exfac03-HUM, LIT 4380/4381, LIT4001
University of Oxford, Faculty of English: "The Harlem Renaissance" (veileder bacheloroppgave)
University of Oxford, Faculty of English: "Immigrant literature in London from the 1950s and 60s" (veileder bacheloroppgave)
University of Massachusetts Amherst: Oxford Summer Seminar: "Black British writers"
University of Oxford, Faculty of English and History (HENG): "Black Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance"
Stanford University in Oxford Programme: "Caribbean and Black British women’s writing" og "Representations of Race in Britain"
Akademiske verv
Convenor: Black Poesis (Fritt ord og Anders Jahre fond): Forelesningsserie, Literature, Rights and Imagined Communites
Co-Convenor 2015/2016: “Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century”. The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Arbeidsgruppe 2016: «Comics and Graphic Novels – The Politics of Form». The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Annet
Medlem av Kulturrådets FoU-utvalg.