Scholar, writer, critic
Some Short Articles
On Pierre Clementi’s A Few Personal Messages, translated by Claire Foster (The Drift 2023)
On Henry Dumas’s Short Fiction (TLS 2021)
On Guido Morselli’s Dissipatio H.G. (TLS 2021)
On Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim (TLS 2017)
On Pasha Malla & Aisha Sasha John (Globe & Mail 2017)
On Late Arcade by Nathaniel Mackey (BOMB Magazine 2017)
On Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Globe & Mail 2016)
On Martin John by Anakana Schofield (Globe & Mail 2015)
Longer
The Peculiar Legacy of E.E. Cummings (The Nation, 2024)
John Keats’s Politics of Pain and Renewal (The Nation, 2021)
Return to the Gay Underground (Boston Review, 2020)
At The Living Heart : Three Translations of Aimé Césaire (The Nation, 2018)
The Lost Poems of George Oppen (New York Review of Books 2017)
Between the News and a Prayer: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith (The Nation 2017)
The Poetics of Jazz: Epistrophies by Brent Hayes Edwards (The Nation 2017)
‘In Contagious Mood’: On Claude McKay’s New, Last Novel (LA Review of Books 2017)
Academic
(I’m happy to send .pdfs of any & all)
“SpongeBob, Meme Laocoön.” Representations 168 (Special Issue: Meme Aesthetics, Summer 2025)
“Rubber & Heroin in a Dying City: Recession Gentrification in Hanif Abdurraqib’s Serial Poems.” English Studies 106.1 (Winter 2025)
“Developing a Lyric Carapace: Urban Mood, Rebellious Banality, and George Oppen’s Obscured Modernism.” Modernism/modernity 29.1 (2022)
with Kristin Grogan — “Introduction” & co-editing of Bernadette Mayer (Contemporaries at Post45, July 2021)
“Lyric Commodification in Claude McKay’s Morocco.” English Language Notes 57.1 (2021)
“A Brief Introduction to 21 Poems by George Oppen.” Journal of Modern Literature 40.1 (2016)
“An Attempt At An Inexhaustible Site In Lower Manhattan.” Critical Military Studies 1.1 (2015)
Bio
I am Assistant Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta (Canada), where I am working on my monograph What Can You Do Alone? : Lyric Sociality & the Global Depression. I edited 21 Poems by George Oppen (New Directions, 2017) and with Richard Sieburth, I’m currently working on Tempus Tacendi: The Venice Notebooks by Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge (New Directions, forthcoming). I have degrees from Queen’s University (Canada), University of Cambridge and New York University, where I defended my doctoral dissertation, In the Crowd Moving Opposite: Lyric Modernism & the Idea of Sociality, in 2019.
I mostly teach 20thC literature courses, emphasizing the transnational development of American Literature. I’ve offered focused seminars on Global Modernisms, 20thC Poetry, Autofiction/Creative Nonfiction, “the Du Bois Era,” and Contemporary Black Writing, as well as surveys of America Literature (pre-1900 and 1900-present), Urban Studies and Intro to Literature. Before Lethbridge, I taught at NYU, SUNY-Fashion Institute, Stern College for Women, and thru CUNY’s College Now program at the Lehman College Campus in the Bronx — an outreach program offering free A.P. credits to public high school juniors and seniors.