Journal Articles (selected)
2025
Toward Critical Belonging: Heidegger, Arendt, and Glissant’s Other of Thought, Millenium: Journal of International Studies.
Edward Said’s Archive: Toward Postcolonial Theory, Philosophy & Global Affairs.
2023
On Conceptual Sufficiency: Humanity in Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and John Brown, Philosophy & Global Affairs.
2022
The Right to Have Rights in the Americas: Arendt, Monture, and the Problem of the State, Arendt Studies.
2021
Precarity and Resistance: A Critique of Martha Fineman’s Vulnerability Theory, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Co-written with Eric Aldieri.
2020
The Politics of Positionality: The Difference between Post-, Anti-, and De-colonial Methods, Culture, Theory and Critique. Co-written with Jason Walsh.
2019
The Politics of Édouard Glissant’s Right to Opacity, The CLR James Journal: The Journal of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Essays
2026
Afropessimism Meets Edward Said, Political Theology Network.
2025
Simone Weil’s Queer Form, Political Theology Network.
2024
Humanity beyond the human: Theorizing War with Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said, Political Theology Network.
Critique at Sea Level: Paul Gilroy’s Renewed Critical Theory, The 13/13 Essays.
2023
A Scarf and A Song: Reflections on Simone Weil, Jean Genet, and Edward Said, The 13/13 Essays.
Édouard Glissant’s Right to Opacity, Critical Legal Thinking.
Why We Return to Simone Weil: The Question of War, The 13/13 Essays.
How to Embrace a Wildfire: A Path Out of The Smoke, Public Books.
The Sacred in Édouard Glissant, Political Theology Network.
Indigenous Human Rights Claims Outline Promising New Ways of Life, Open Global Rights.
Are Universities Bad for Democracy?, Public Seminar.
2022
An Ethics of Refusal: Beyond “The Great Resignation”, Public Seminar.
Paul Gilroy’s Planetary Humanism, Political Theology Network.
2021
How Shame Plays a Productive Role in Racial Justice, Public Seminar.
2020
How Should We Acknowledge the Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples?, Public Seminar.
Why Does White Fragility Never Break? The Framing of Racism in Higher Education, Public Seminar.
Sentencing the Present: Critical conversations in a time of crisis, Public Seminar.
Theses for Theory in a Time of Crisis, Public Seminar.
Encyclopedia Articles
2018
Simone Weil, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Co-written with A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone.
Poetry
2020
Confirmation, Apricity Magazine.
Psalm 79, The Merrimack Review.
2019
Psalm 94, Moria.
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