Research and Work
Writing
- "What Constitutes A Constitution?" (with Michael Zargham, Eric Alston, and Kelsie Nabben)
- "'What Has Always Been True': On House of Leaves, Post-Digital Textuality, and the Specters of Deconstruction"
- "The World Reviewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Data"
- "Fucking (and) Time: Toward a Lacanian Understanding of Temporality"
- "Doesn't Writing Have A Future? A Marvel-ous Journey Into (And Out Of) The 'Universe Of Technical Images'"
- "Palimpsest or Parasite? (Re)Thinking Giorgio Moroder's Noisy 'Metropolis'"
- "'So Intimate and So Strange': Alienist Literature at the Dawn of 'The Age of the World Picture' *OR* The Mirror and the Vamp: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Resolve The Antinomies of Realism"
- "So That The Raggedness Becomes Confused”: Max Ritvo's 'Four Reincarnations' and the Poetics of Con-Fusion"
- "A Note on Freud's 'Analysis Terminable and Interminable'"
- "'Of Man Extracted':'Technics and Time' in 'Paradise Lost'
- "'The Time of a Passage':On Photography, Temporality, and Mourning in Kracauer, Benjamin, and Derrida"
- "Nothing to Fear: Learning to Live With (Digital) Ghosts"
- "Game Theory: On Baudrillard and 'Grand Theft Auto V'"
- "Clip Fear: YouTube's Remediations of Horror"
- "'Through the Looking-Glass': Sherlock Jr. and the Birth of the Classical Cinema"
- "Hall of Mirrors: 'The Book of Illusions' and 'The Inner Life of Martin Frost'"
- "'Himself in the Glass': The Mythology of Vertigo"
- ""'So God With Man Unites': The Rhetorical Drama of 'Paradise Regained'"
- "The Work of Art in the Age of Replicants: Skepticism, Modernism, and Blade Runner"
- "Roots, Blossoms, and Additions to Nature: Reading 'Spring and All' Against Shelley's 'Defence of Poetry'"
- "'Ghosts of Your Childrens' Future': Remediating the Cinema After Digitalization" (Work in Progress)
Teaching Experience
Term-Time Courses at Brown
- Writing War
- Literature of the American Renaissance
- Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: The American Novel and Its Traditions
- Devils, Demons, Do-Gooders
- American Literature and the Constitution
- Black Poetics
- Visionaries, Dreamers, and Dissidents: Imagining Other Worlds
- "That's Nonsense": Writing Well in the Age of Insincerity
- Shakespeare
- Cultures and Countercultures: The American Novel after World War II
Summer Courses at Brown
- Law and Literature
- Serial Fictions
- Writing for College Admissions
- Writing for College Admissions (Online, Asynchronous)
- Presenting Yourself in Words
- Writing the Expository Essay
Other Courses
- Law and Literature (KIPP Indy Legacy High School, IN and Univeristy High School, NJ – in partnership with the National Education Equity Lab)
- Expository Writing (Rutgers University New Brunswick, 2016)
Conference Presentations
- "Nothing to Fear: Learning to Live With (Digital) Ghosts," NeMLA, Boston, 2020 (Panel)
- "Doesn't Writing Have a Future?: A Marvel-ous Journey into the Universe of Technical Images," NeMLA, Washington D.C., 2019 (Panel)
- "Towards a Poetics of Alternate Temporalities," NeMLA, Pittsburgh, 2018 (Roundtable; Participant)
- "Undetermined Duration: Thinking the Temporality of Comics Contra Cinema Through Persepolis," NeMLA, Pittsburgh, 2018 (Panel)
- "'Of Man Extracted': Technics and Time in Paradise Lost," "Reformatting the World," York University, 2018 (Panel)
- "Game Theory: On Baudrillard and Grand Theft Auto V," "Critical Recursions," UCLA, 2017 (Panel)