I am Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Francis, where I teach courses in American literature, writing, and critical theory. I am a scholar of American literature, art, and culture after 1945.

I write about contemporary fiction, violence, the avant-garde, affect studies, feminist theory, autotheory, and aesthetics. My work appears in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Journal of Modern Literature, the minnesota review, American Literature, Pedagogy, Women’s Studies, ASAP/Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. My other interests include modernist and postmodernist literature, cultural studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, digital pedagogy, and multimodal rhetoric and composition. My book, Painful Forms: Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945-2001, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2025 and is now available for pre-order at Bookshop.org.

I am co-editor of a special double issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory devoted to the theme of “Violent Feelings” and a Contributing Editor at ASAP/Review, the open-access publication of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. For ASAP/Review, I commission and write essays on arts and culture 1960-the present. Pitch me!

If you are interested in collaborating with me, learning more about my work, or pitching an essay idea, contact me.