WRITING


Book

Avidly Reads Poetry
NYU Press

Selected Essays

The First Restaurant Critic of Color at the L.A. Times
Los Angeles Review of Books

The Power of a Poem
From the Square, NYU Press

Why a Photo Exhibit of Objects Seized at Border Control Feels Sanitized
Hyperallergic

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand Her Father:
On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

LitHub

Real Toads at the International Cryptozoology Museum
Los Angeles Review of Books

On Murder
Los Angeles Review of Books

Never Let Me Go and the Human Condition
Avidly

The Gore Vidal Papers: A Love Story
The Toast 

On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive
Los Angeles Review of Books

Some Pros and Cons of Organizing Your Bookshelves by Color
The Toast

Book Reviews

A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
(Review of Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife)
Los Angeles Review of Books

ModPo Communities: On The Difference is Spreading
Los Angeles Review of Books

Stay Out of the Forest: On Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s
Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered

Los Angeles Review of Books

Canoodling with Junk Food: On Tommy Pico’s Junk
Los Angeles Review of Books

Sharp But Narrow 
(Review of Michelle Dean’s Sharp)
Los Angeles Review of Books

Demystifying the Contents of the Universe: A New Look at Mina Loy
Los Angeles Review of Books

Facing Facts, Facing Reality: On Deborah Nelson’s Tough Enough
Los Angeles Review of Books

Reduction and Relief
(Review of Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems)
Public Books

Shelf Expression: Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books
Los Angeles Review of Books

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles



Undergraduate Research in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Helping Students Navigate Uncertainty and Build Community through a Structured Cohort-Based Program
Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research

On Not Teaching Art: Baldessari, Pedagogy, and Conceptualism
ASAP/Journal

The ABCs of Conceptual Writing
Comparative Literature Studies 

Releasing Daphne: Alice Fulton, Ovid, Trees
Contemporary Women’s Writing 

“Too Old For Children and Too Young for Grown-Ups”: Gertrude Stein’s To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays
Modernism/modernity

Other Writing

Decoding the Academic Job Market
The Academic Life (podcast)

Tainted Objects: A Conversation with Laura Levitt
Los Angeles Review of Books

Potential Opening Lines for My Novel About the Academic Job Market
ASAP/Journal

Jacquelyn Ardam’s List of Books That She No Longer Has to Pretend to Like Now That She’s Not an English Professor
The Rambling

Things I Have Suffered While a Visiting Assistant Professor in Central Maine
Avidly

Writing the Senior Thesis: A Conversation
Modernism/modernity

Aslant to the Flâneur: A Conversation with Lauren Elkin
Public Books

The Six-Word Story
The Pocket Instructor: Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom

Google and (the) Alphabet
Avidly 

Quick Question: On Conceptual Art and Writing
Jacket2

Alphabet Books For Adults
Bookforum