My research explores the intersections between poetry and history of science, environmental literature, feminist and queer theories of materiality, critical refugee epistemologies, animal studies, and affect theory. I am particularly interested in how practices of observation, experimentation and description structure forms of attention in relation to the material world in the context of the natural sciences, but also in the context of poetics.
Recent books include Poetics of Liveliness: Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds (Columbia UP, 2021) and a poetry collection The Cloud Notebook (Litmus Press, 2023). Poetics of Liveliness, a book about poetry, science, and minute processes of change that structure material worlds, ranging in scale from the three-dimensional folding of protein molecules to the complex cosmologies of clouds, received an honorable mention for the Matei Calinescu Prize from the Modern Language Association.
I am currently at work on two theoretical projects that engage with questions of ecological scales of time, Snail Cinema and The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Ecological Scales of Displacement as well as a collection of poetry about memory and ephemeralities of refugee experience, titled Foxglove.
