Academic Publications
A. Edited Collections:
2025 “Stitching in Knots: Art-Making as Knowledge-Making in the Chinese-West Indian Diaspora(s).” Diasporic
Womanisms: Introducing Hope and Solidarity from Non Western Sources. Monisha Jackson, Sancha Medwinter,
and Tannuja Rozario, editors. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.
2021 Student Writing Anthology. Elkie Burnside, Grayson Chong, Molly Hennigan, Mitia Nath, and Bükem Reitmayer,
editors. UMass Amherst Writing Program. UMass Amherst Libraries OpenBooks,
2021, https://openbooks.library.umass.edu/englwrit112anthology/
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B. Articles in Journals:
2024 “Of Bustiers and Bodysuits: Sartorial Choices and the Celebration of (Hyper)sexuality in Dancehall and
Reggaetón Music Videos.” MaComère Journal with the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
(ACWWS), vol. 15 (Spring 2024): 52-87.
2021 “Threads of Fate: Fragments of the Jamaican Chinese.” small axe salon, vol. 36 (Feb. 2021).
2021 “Hurricanes and Headpieces: Storytelling from the Ruins and Remains in Caribbean History and Culture.”
Comparative Media Arts Journal, vol. 9, no. 1.
2019 “The Outsider in the Circulation of Exchange: An Analysis of the Commodification, Economics, and Liminality of
Cressida in William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.” IDIOM: English Undergraduate Academic Journal, vol. 13,
no. 1, pp. 6-14.
2018 “A Bond Worth More than A Pound of Flesh: Exploring the Relationship Between Antonio and Bassanio in William
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” The Scarborough Review, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 12-19.
2017 “The Barbarian Within: The Collapse of the Binary Between Insiders and Outsiders in William Shakespeare’s Titus
Andronicus.” The Scarborough Review, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 26-33.
C. Conference Paper Presentations:
2020 “Songs of the Sea: Linguistic Currents in the Early Modern Caribbean and the Anthropocene.”
Eco-Entanglements: Ruin, Grafting, Stratification. UMass Renaissance Graduate Conference, Amherst.
February 22.
2019 “How to Compose Redemption Songs: Caliban and the Caribbean.” Work in Progress. Sigma Tau Delta 2019
Convention, St. Louis. March 27-30.
2019 “Mapping Plantations: Early Modern Maps and Slave Societies.” Experience and Expression in the Renaissance:
Exploring Early Modern Media, University of Toronto, March 15.
2019 “Worlds of Plantations: Early Modern Economic Maps of the Caribbean.” World-Making, 1500-1800, University of
California Santa Barbara. February 22-23.
2019 “What’s the Hyphen Got to Do with It?: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Cordelia and Nature in William
Shakespeare’s King Lear.” Space, Place, and the Environment. Annual English Undergraduate Conference,
University of Toronto Scarborough, February 5.
2018 “Choking Cordelia.” Seeking Freedom. Sigma Tau Delta 2018 Convention, Cincinnati. March 21-24.
2018 “’I am in Blood’: Exploring Lady Macbeth’s Memory, Trauma, and the Significance of Water in William
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” University of Toronto Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference, University of Toronto.
March 3.
2018 “Ravenous Rome: Confusion Between Romans and Barbarians in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”, “Of
Men and Monsters”, and “Back to Genesis.” Subversion. Annual English Undergraduate Conference, University of
Toronto Scarborough. February 1.
D. Invited Talks and Panels
2024 “‘Prada Mi Prada/ Gucci Mi Gucci/ Louis V and the Nike, Mi Abuse It’: Constructing Dancehall Identities Using
Fashion(able) Fabric and Luxury Labels.” Genealogies of Feminist Thought graduate seminar, hosted by Dr.
Svati Shah, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies (WGSS) department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
September 18.
2022 “Caliban’s Caribbean: The Emergence of a Hybridized Sonic Identity.” Sounded Encounters: Aurality in Early
Modern Literature graduate seminar, hosted by Dr. Adam Zucker, English department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst. November 9.
2020 “Lessons as a Writing Instructor and Writing Pedagogy.” Education Panel, hosted by Dr. Maria Assif, English D02Y
at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). October 30.
Creative Writing Publications
2019 “Language Lessons” and “A Sonnet for Prosperos.” The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, vol. 94. (Winner of the Eleanor
B. North Poetry Prize and $500 USD)
2018 “How to Prepare for Hurricane Season.” Scarborough Fair, vol. 50, no. 1, p. 31. (Winner of the Creative Writing
Competition for Poetry and $150 CAD)
2015 “Fire and Venom.” The Tracery of Trees, Poetry Institute of Canada, p. 76.
2015 “Hopeless Wanderer.” Wherever We Roam, Polar Expressions of Canada, p. 174.
2015 “Montmartre.” The Waves on the Shore, Young Writers of Canada, p. 161.
2015 “Mourning Rain.” Spring’s Gentle Rain, Poetry Institute of Canada, pp. 121-122.
2015 “Picture Perfect.” Waking Dawn, Polar Expressions Publishing, p. 155.
2015 “Take Me Back.” Take Me Back, Polar Expressions Publishing, p. 19.
2015 “Wanderers.” Serenity, Young Writers of Canada, p. 43.
2015 “Half Breed.” Teenage Wasteland Review, Spring 2015.
2014 “Chee Gah Ngin.” Young Voices Magazine, 22 October, p. 24.
2014 “Perfect.” The Warbler’s Song, Polar Expressions Publishing, p. 172.
2014 “We Live in Adventure Time.” The River’s Song, Young Writers of Canada, p. 110.
Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships
A. Internal Awards and Fellowships
2025-2026 Rendering Revolution Maker-Scholar Fashion Fellowship (Inaugural Recipient) ($1,500 USD)
2024 DGS-Mellon Summer Dissertation Fellowship ($8,000 USD)
2024 English Department Summer Dissertation Fellowship ($4,500 USD)
2019-2023 Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst
($5,000 USD/year)
2023 Lee Ann Smith White Graduate Prize for “Chee Gah Ngin: The Spaces of Chinese-Caribbean Kinship and
Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda (1998) and Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Last Ship
(2015).” ($1,500 USD)
2019 Undergraduate Conference Critical Essay Prize for “What’s the Hyphen Got to Do With It?: An Exploration
of the Relationship Between Cordelia and Nature in William Shakespeare’s King Lear,” University of
Toronto Scarborough. ($100 CAD)
2018 Winner of the Creative Writing Competition for Poetry for “How to Prepare for Hurricane Season,”
Scarborough Fair. ($150 CAD)
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B. External Awards and Fellowships
2022 Honorable Mention for “Of Bustiers and Bodysuits: Sartorial Choices and the Celebration of
(Hyper)sexuality in Dancehall and Reggaetón Music Videos.” Association of Caribbean Women Writers
and Scholars, 5th Annual Graduate Essay Contest.
2019 Scholarly Paper – Undergraduate Award for “The Tempest for New World Fantasies: Exploring Colonial
Literacies of Early Modern English Explorations to the Caribbean." Sigma Tau Delta. ($250 USD)
2018 Junior Scholarship, Sigma Tau Delta. ($3,000 USD)
2018 Scholarly Paper – Undergraduate Award, Sigma Tau Delta. ($250 USD)
2018 Eleanor B. North Poetry Prize for “Language Lessons,” Sigma Tau Delta. ($500 USD)
2018 Honourable Mention for ‘Convention Theme’ Critical Essay for “Choking Cordelia,” Sigma Tau Delta.
($75 USD)
2018 Indigo Scholarship, Indigo Books & Music Inc. ($3,000 CAD)