I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Bard College, where my research and teaching bridge the study of Anglo-American literature, poetry and poetics, human rights, and sociology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

My current book project, Socio/Poetics: A Cultural History, explores the relationship between literature and sociology in the United States and the broader anglophone world since the early twentieth century. The project animates meaningful yet neglected encounters between these two fields through an original archive of works characterized by what I call “sociopoetics”—a self-conscious recombination of literary and sociological methods and forms that addresses a range of modern social problems and disciplinary impasses. In doing so, Socio/Poetics offers unexamined models for interdisciplinary inquiry today. 

I hold a PhD in English from the University of Chicago and an MSt in English from the University of Oxford.