I’m an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the English Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

I’m currently working on a book about major genres of viral content, each of which have been particularly pervasive, not only across multiple dominant platforms (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok), but also throughout the fully-corporatized social networking era (c. post-2010). You can watch me speak about the genre that I call the “uplifting anecdote” here; or read a related article, here.

My other areas of interest include, increasingly, political aesthetics and popular TV, but also, more perennially, therapeutic culture, analytic philosophy, and feminist thought. My academic writing has appeared in New Literary History, Post45, Cultural Analytics, and JML: The Journal of Modern Literature.

I also write essays and reviews for venues like Harper’s, The Point, and Public Books.

Before coming to UIUC, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth, and earned a PhD in English from Harvard.

See my CV, here.