In addition to my academic work, I write essays and criticism as well as fiction and poetry.

Poetry/Fiction

• The Philosopher, Harnessed, Belladonna*, 2025. (PDF)

• PERSUASION, bæst, 2025.

• “Letter of Recommendation: What Women Want,” Pioneer Works Broadcast Channel, March 2024.

• Second Nature, mo(o)n/IO, 2023. (Online excerpt here.)

Essays

• “Morality, Obscene: Pierre Guyotat's Empire of Filth,” Parapraxis, Februrary 2026.

• “Neither Sexy, Cool, nor Smart,” Post45, June 2024.

• “On being hysterical,” 3am Magazine, July 2020

• “Freud: A Star is Born,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2020.

• “Final Fantasy,” (roundtable with Sean Ford, Diarmuid Hester, Quinn Roberts), The New Inquiry, May 2020.

• “Hope and Shamelessness,” (with Gal Katz), The Point, May 2020.

• “Parables of the Plague,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2020.

• “Cool Women,” The New Inquiry, February 2020.

• “Race, Gun Violence, and Equitable Access to Trauma Care,” (with Korey Garibaldi), The Chicago Tribune, June 2018.

• “Nuclear Carnival,” The Point, January 2018.

• “Out There and In Here,” (with Korey Garibaldi), January 2016.

Reviews

• “On Intifadas by Edward Salem,” Poetry Project Newsletter, June 2026.

• “Copper Haunts,” (review of Marina Xenofontos), frieze, May 2026.

• “Tickled Pink,” (review of Catalina Schliebener Muñoz), Texte zur Kunst, March 2023.

• “Living in the World,” (review of Peter Brooks, Balzac's World), The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2021.

• “Who Needs a World View?” (review of Raymond Geuss, Who Needs a World View?), The Point, January 2021.

• “Killing the Joke,” (review of Andrea Long Chu, Females), The Point, February 2020.

• “More Than a Body: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2018.

• “Peculiarly American: Grant Wood at the Whitney,” The Point, June 2018.