Professor of English, City University of New York
I'm a romance fiction reader and scholar who teaches at LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York. My most recent monograph is Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (2023, Indiana University Press). My article on representations of Black and BIPOC academics in romance novels from the 1980s and more recent ones is available at the open-access peer reviewed journal Esferas Literarias via https://academicworks.cuny.edu/lg_pubs/190/
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