I’m a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois Chicago. My research centers on the tension between meaning and materiality in American modernist and postmodern visual art, poetry, and literary theory. Key figures in my dissertation include Jackson Pollock, William Carlos Williams, and Paul de Man, and my first chapter was published as an article on Nonsite. In addition to my academic work, I’ve also written book reviews (for the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Awl), music journalism (for Vice), and a catalogue essay for an artist.
- Syntax in Santa Barbara Nonsite
- What Exists is Good: On ‘The Architecture of Neoliberalism’ Los Angeles Review of Books
- The Dialectic of Liquid Light [PDF] Catalogue essay for ‘Liquid Light – Joseph Marioni’ at Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2018
- Can War Photography Be Beautiful? The Awl
- Rethinking the Thinkpiece: Art Versus Politics in the Sharing Economy [PDF] Interface