I’m a postdoctoral fellow in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where I also received my PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

My research is about the history and theory of writing and other media, especially the age of industrial print -- roughly between 1800 and 1980. I also write about the history of poetry (especially modernism), philosophy and literary theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and new media.

I’ve written essays and articles about international modernism (Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp, Jorge Luis Borges), 20th-century American poetry (Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky and “Objectivist” verse, Charles Olson, Frank O’Hara), cinema (silent and early sound pioneers, Fritz Lang, Vittorio De Sica, Orson Welles), philosophy and literary theory (Gerard Genette, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin), and the history of photography and journalism.

One current project I’m excited about: an English translation with commentary of Stéphane Mallarmé’s notes on his unfinished “Le Livre,” sometimes called “The Great Work.”

I’ve also written extensively about digital media and the future of reading, books, teaching, and higher education.

Mostly, I like to think really hard while talking over coffee.