I currently teach in the English Department at St. Bonaventure University. My research examines debates around literary property and race in the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. To research my book project, I have been the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. I recently attended the Digital Humanities Summer Institute to learn TEI in an effort produce a digital edition of A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (1794); this pamphlet was the first time that African Americans secured a copyright in the United States.
