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 platforms (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok), but also throughout the full, 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.

I’m also working on political aesthetics, popular TV, and AI-slop. I’m always interested in 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.

Beyond my academic work, I 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.