I am a trans studies scholar with an interdisciplinary interest in literature, critical theory, and science studies. The focus of my research is the intersection between power and gender. I draw on the philosophical project of trans studies that map and disrupt capitalism’s hold on human and non-human lives. 

In Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature, I explore the emergence of modern gender through literary productions of the French Interwar years and tracks the dysphoria inherent to this process. Looking at the French modernist canon and its uses in American queer theory, I argue that the gender binary is a racial assemblage tied to the colonial imperialist project, and that modernist sexual dissidence came at the cost of an enforcement of racial and gendered discriminations. 

My new book, Beyond Nature(s): Toward A Feral Ecology of Transness, combines ecocriticism and transgender studies to question the nature/culture duality. In describing transness as a feral ecology, I assert trans bodies as sites of relationality in which matter, technologies, and relationships are woven together.

I have published essays in TSQ, L’Esprit Createur, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and in edited volumes such as Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies, Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, and Deleuze on Children.

I am currently an associate professor of French at Ithaca College. I completed my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis) in 2014 and I obtained my MA in French Literature from the University Paris 7 (Paris-Diderot) in 1994. In the interval, I pursued a career as a free-lance journalist specializing in ethnobiology. I also wrote a book on biomimicry, Quand la nature inspire la science (“When Nature Inspires Sciences”) which has been translated in five languages.