Introduction
Field Notes from a Settler Scholar Greetings friend, family, and colleagues! I am a settler as a person in that I live in the United States’ state of Virginia on land unlawfully ceded by the Monocan and Tutelo indigenous peoples and work at a university built by enslaved labor. And I’m also a “settler scholar”…
Literary detective
I chose to title this blog “literary detective” NOT because I’m writing about detectives in literature but because I’m in that phase of my work where I think of myself as a detective–of a sort. I’m not solving a crime but I am digging through clues. Ok, maybe detective isn’t the best metaphor. Maybe I’m….…




