Research etc.
PhD Research — Data, Networks and Society
My doctoral research at the London School of Economics and Political Science explores the socio-technical landscapes that give rise to “data loss” events, examining both their material and emotional impact on users, as well as the inventive technical practices crafted in response. You can find a more robust description here.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant — Digital Platforms and Media Infrastructures, (Instructor: Dr. Jean-Christophe Plantin), Fall 2025,
Teaching Assistant — Communication: Culture and Approaches (Instructor: Dr. Myria Georgiou and Dr. Alessandro Castellini
Guest Lecture — On Escaping the Grasp of the Watcher through Kate Bush’s “Watching You Watching Me”, Jill Scott’s “Watching Me” and Simone Browne’s “Dark Souveillence”, Circumfluence, The Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Winter 2024
Guest Lecture — Reimagining the Origins of Metal and Blues Epistemologies, Introduction to Critical Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Fall 2023
Guest Lecture — Black Brits, Punk, and Grime, Music of the African Diaspora, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Fall 2023
Guest Lecture — Website Workshopping, Branding Seminar, Graduate Course, School of Journalism, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Winter 2022
Guest Lecture — Media Pitches: Public Relations Writing, School of Continuing Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, Spring 2021
Guest Lecture — Guest Lecture — Website Workshopping, Branding Seminar, Graduate Course, School of Journalism, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Winter, 2021
Guest Lecture — Pitching and Branding, Graduate Course, School of Journalism, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Winter 2020
Lecture — Wordless * Intensifiers * : A bit off the Top on Suspicion’s Mortal computational Coil. Brutal Death Metal and the Eroticism of Enfleshment, Oral Method, Toronto, Ontario
Collaborative Forums
Community event, spring 2023
As the final project of a fellowship with the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Unit at the Faculty of Information, and the University of Toronto, I designed and produced “collective brainstorm” titled Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow, named after the Sun Ra album. The event expanded upon the “world cafe” method for critical community engagement by inviting a multidisciplinary group of attendees to lead and share their insights on theory and practice with the public
Symposium, spring 2024
During my time as the inaugural lead research fellow at the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis at the University of Toronto, I led curation, planning and organization of a sprawling 4 day event that that remixed the concept of a conference to blend incisive, horizontal conversations, performances and workshops.
reading group, spring 2025
A joint endeavour with LSE Fellow in Global Media and Communication Dr. Abel Guerra. We started with the text, The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism by: Sylvia Wynter
Conferences
Upcoming
Panel Organizer — “Betting Against Humanity: Predictions, Markets, Futures, Technopower / Technoscientific Promises”, 4S Reverberations, 4S: The Social Studies of Science Conference, Toronto, Ontario
Presenter — “Breaking the Circuit of Data Loss: Information Infrastructures and Emerging Methods for Recovering Lost Virtual, Possessions”, Materiality, Memory, Forgetting: Cross - Currents in Textual Studies and Memory Studies, The Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, The New School, New York
Presenter —Thinking Through Crisis, Workshop Series, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Presenter — “Managing Metadata Afterlives: Infrastructural Preservation and The Politics of Disposal”, in (Bit)Rotting Session with Maddy Young and Damjan Kokalevski, Metadata Ecologies: Translational Struggles in “Intelligent Archives” Workshop, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Archive for Architecture and Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany
Presenter — “Amplifying the Stakes of Data Loss Grief: Data Deletion Events and the Inherited Legacies of Subjugation” with Maxwell Neely-Cohen and Avery Dame-Griff, Data Loss Reverberations: Exploring Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies 1, 4S Reverberations, The Social Studies of Science Conference, Seattle, United States
Preparing for Publication
Arriving at a “Heavy Poieses of Technoscience” Through Extreme Metal and Black Studies
Reframing and Reimagining the Document, “Manuscript list of slave holdings in the Woodford Sugar Plantation, Grenada, 1821”
Guided by Voices: Negotiating the Potentialities of the Technologically-Mediated Voice from Thomas Edison to Billie Holiday