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PhD Candidate in English Literature

I am a PhD candidate in the CUNY Graduate Center English Department, specializing in postcolonial literature. I am completing her dissertation on gender roles in Caribbean indenture narratives, and my research has been funded by the CUNY Graduate Center and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. My scholarly work has appeared in Exit 9, and my fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Sun, The Columbia Review, and Hot Metal Press, among others. I currently teaches writing classes at American University, and have taught at Georgetown University and the City College of New York, as well.