Scholar, writer, critic

Academic

(I’m happy to send .pdfs of any & all)

“Fractal Gentrification in Hanif Abdurraqib’s Serial Poems.” English Studies 106.1: 29-42 (Winter 2025, link)

“SpongeBob, Meme Laocoön.” Representations 168: 115-124 (Special Issue: Meme Aesthetics, Fall 2024, link)

“Developing a Lyric Carapace: Urban Mood, Rebellious Banality, and George Oppen’s Obscured Modernism.” Modernism/modernity 29.1: 27-48 (2022, link)

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: 181-200 (2021, link)

“A Brief Introduction to 21 Poems by George Oppen.” Journal of Modern Literature 40.1: 1-22 (2016, link)

“An Attempt At An Inexhaustible Site In Lower Manhattan.” Critical Military Studies 1.1: 88-98 (2015, link)

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.