I am currently a Professor and Head of Philosophy, as well as an affiliate with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I earned my PhD in Philosophy at Rutgers University (2011).

I am the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (w/Paul Taylor and Linda Martín Alcoff, 2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language (2024) (w/Ernie Lepore). I am also the author of several articles on the semantics and pragmatics of racial slurs, epistemic injustice, and racial humor. 

I write and teach about hate speech, racial humor, Black aesthetics, resistance, slurs, and hermeneutical injustice. I am currently writing books on the Ethics of Racial Humor (OUP) and The Philosophy of Race and Racism (Routledge). 

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