I am a writer and interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities scholar working at the intersection of arts, politics, and environmental justice. I am particularly concerned with questions related to environmental degradation, extractive industries, biodiversity, land and place, and artistic engagement with these themes.

I am Assistant Professor of World and Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. My current monograph, forthcoming in the British Academy Monograph Series at Liverpool University Press, draws on literatures in English, French, and African languages to present a theorisation of extractivism in the West African context. The work is based on nearly three years of in situ research in Guinea, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ghana and South Africa.

Prior to my current position, I have held research fellowships at the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry at UCL, the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. I have also worked as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia.

My doctoral research examined the environmental history of apartheid and the response of amaXhosa poets to racial oppression and environmental injustice. My work contends that oral and vernacular language texts should receive greater consideration by postcolonial ecocritics, since the literatures of historically marginalized groups often have the most to say about human relationships with natural environments and experiences of environmental injustice. This research was published in the monograph Of Land, Bones, and Money (University of Virginia Press, 2019), which received Honourable Mention for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize from the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.

I have received awards for my poetry from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and have been a finalist for poetry awards from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the League of Canadian Poets, and the Canadian Authors’ Association. My most recent book of poetry, Into the Continent, was published by Oskana Poetry & Poetics at University of Regina Press in March 2024.