Read my new piece on The Chair in InVisible Culture!

I wrote about Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal and the Gothic doubles of reality tv for Mid-Theory Collective!

Spoke about my paper on wooden performances, ecology, and Twin Peaks last night.

Ever contemplated the garage as an object? A container for holding brokenness? Well read my essayette on the garage just published in the essay series Object Lessons: Impressions in the Pittsburgh Review of Books!

First year of my PhD was a success. I was awarded second place in the Cornelison prize for best graduate student paper and earned second place in the Neureuther essay contest for best essays on bibliophilia and book collecting. You can read that here: openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcont...

WashU's Ampersand magazine interviewed me about my essay for Belt Magazine and my experience in the Program in Public Scholarship directed by Christopher Schaberg!

Lacan, Seminar XX: “Nothing forces anyone to enjoy except the superego. The superego is the imperative of jouissance—Enjoy!”

My recent essay just published in Belt Magazine!

Love that fast food napkins come pre-greased

Coco and Chewy in a Twin Peaks rewatch

Over the summer I wrote a piece on why libertarians are perverts and the contradictions of freedom under capitalism. sublationmedia.com/the-perversi...

Coco has repurposed the Bard as a pillow. I can attest: Norton Anthologies do make suitable pillows in a bind.

A little over a year ago, I published my first piece in Of Rust and Glass. A short essay reflecting on the soundscape of Industrial music, the ruins of the deindustrialized Midwest, and the obsolescence of my father’s labor of repair.