I’m a writer and an Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University, where I teach American literature from 1900 to the present. My writing and teaching focus on the changing contours and textures of aesthetic experience in the contemporary. I write about a wide range of subjects: novels, poetry, music, digital media and cultures, the political economy of streaming platforms, the metaphysics of energy drinks. I earned my PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.

My academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Post45 Journal, The Routledge Companion to the Novel, Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies (LSU Press 2020), and A Gallery Guide to the Melancholy Museum (Cantor Arts Center 2019). I’ve also written cultural criticism and reviews for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Paris Review, n+1, and The Drift, among other outlets.

I also play guitar, sing, and write songs.