My writing moves between academic scholarship and public criticism—always asking the same question from different directions: who controls the story?
FORTHCOMING
"Painting Over the Gun: Who Controls Belfast's Story?"
Book chapter on survivance of women artists and political murals in Belfast
Forthcoming in a co-authored volume (publisher under negotiation)
Interview with Danny Devenny
ASAP/Journal — Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Fall 2026
PUBLIC WRITING
"Michael Jackson, Palestine and the Erasure of Solidarity"
Radical Books Collective, 2024 / The Lioness Archive
"The Real Barbarians" — on Savage Acts
The Lioness Archive, 2024
"Emmalene Blake: Making Street Art for Palestine"
The Polis Project, 2023
"Supporting Transgender Students in the Classroom"
Faculty Focus / Magna Publications, 2020
"WGSS 1105: Gender & Sexuality in Everyday Life, UConn"
Warscapes Corona Notebooks, May 2020
PODCASTS
"'I Did It for the Uplift of Humanity and the Navy': Same-Sex Acts and the Origins of the National Security State, 1919–1921"
MIT OpenCourseWare Podcast, 2018
A discussion of FDR's covert operatives, entrapment, and the policing of sexual non-conformity on the World War I home front
"Unlearning War in the Classroom"
BookRising / Radical Books Collective, April 2024
A conversation on feminist pedagogy and war, with Veruska Cantelli and Bhakti Shringarpure
Part of the series on Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press)
Teaching Across Difference, “Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom" — webinar
Magna Publications, 2020
CURATORIAL WORK
"WGSS at 50: Our Histories, Intimacies, and Futures through Audre Lorde's Uses of Anger"
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut
March – July 2024
Co-curated exhibition organized around Audre Lorde's "The Uses of Anger," marking the 50th anniversary of UConn's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES
The Uses of Anger: UConn Women and Gender Studies at 60
Daraja Press
Co-authored with Elva Orozco Mendoza and Jane Gordon
Includes an interview with Beverly Guy-Sheftall by Briona Jones
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
"'I Did It for the Uplift of Humanity and the Navy': Same-Sex Acts and the Origins of the National Security State, 1919–1921"
New England Quarterly, June 2018
This essay explores U.S. national security interests on the World War I home front from 1917 to 1921 in Newport, Rhode Island, when Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt's covert operatives attempted to restrict same-sex acts through methods of entrapment. It argues that World War I provided government officials new opportunities to expand security concerns as they policed and punished gender and sexual non-conformity well before the Cold War.