Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
School of Humanities

comparative modernisms; critical theory; film and media studies; psychoanalysis

BOOKS
The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature (Fordham University Press, December 2008; paperback March 2012)
A Seafloor for the Disaster (in progress)
Reading Beyond Recognition: Impersonality and Corporate Personhood (in progress)
Sportstalk: Some Figures of the Expanded Field (in progress)

SELECTED ESSAYS
“Waves from an Old Film: The Aging of Cinema and the Uncanny Earth,” in Sceens and Illusionism: Alternative Teleologies of Mediation, Peter Bloom and Dominique Jullien, eds., Edinburgh University Press (2024)
“A Seafloor for the Disaster,” The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 64 (2022)
“Extreme Sports: An Exercise in Imitation,” The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 63 (2020)
“Dangers of Literature: On the Use of Socrates in Recent Apologies for the Humanities,” the minnesota review 91 (2018)
“‘Personation’ and the Division of Labor,” The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 60 (2017)
“Corporate Personhood and Modernist ‘Impersonality’: Woolf’s Drama,” Law and Literature 28.3 (2016)
“Tradition and the Multinational Corporation: T.S. Eliot’s Europe,” in Visions of Europe, Gail Hart and Anke Biendarra, eds., Peter Lang (2014)
“From the Cold Earth: BP’s Broken Well, Streaming Live,” Postmodern Culture 23.1 (2013) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/513306
“A Night at the Whineys” (on sportstalk radio), n+1 (March 2011) https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-night-at-the-whineys/
“Poe’s Tattoo: Reading Fraternity in Baudelaire,” MLN 124.5 (2009)
“Blanchot on Dreams and Writing,” SubStance 34.2 (2005)

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Last updated
05/22/2025