Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
Klapper Hall 323
[email protected]
Research and Teaching Interests
Twentieth-century literature & evolutionary theory; modernism; film, animation, and media studies; cultural studies; affect theory; gender and sexuality studies; critical animal studies; history of cybernetics.
Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Selected Publications
“Queer Modernist Animals.” In Contemporary Queer Modernism, ed. Melanie Micir. Routledge, 2025.
“If That Which Is at All: Notes Toward an Allotheory of Grace E. Lavery.” ASAP/Journal 6.3 (September 2021): 731-752.
“The Natural World and the Anthropocene.” In The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf, ed. Anne Fernald. Oxford University Press, 2021.
“Pandemic Epistemology: Neoliberalism, Fascism, Modernist Studies.” PMLA 136.3 (May 2021): 475-482.
“Late Registration: Universal Agency & the Cultural Logic of Compulsion.” Invited contribution to “A Symposium on Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.” ASAP/J (June 2019).
“Steps to a Weak-ology of Mind.” Invited response to Special Issue on Weak Theory. Modernism/modernity Print Plus, vol. 4, cycle 1 (April 2019).
“Modernist Style and the Paradox of Pedantry.” Invited response to Patricia Willis essay on Marianne Moore and William Blake in Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore: Essays from a Critical Renaissance (Palgrave: 2017). Marianne Moore Society Forum (Spring 2019).
“Animation.” Gender: Animals, ed. Juno Salazar Parreñas. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017): 333-346.
“On Falling Fastidiously: Marianne Moore’s Slapstick Animals.” English Literary History 83.3 (Fall 2016): 873-898.
“Joyce’s Indifferent Animals: Boredom and the Subversion of Fables in Finnegans Wake.” Modernist Cultures 11.2 (Summer 2016): 179–205.
