professional and public writing

selections of recent writing:


public-facing writing

  • “Don’t Get Too Cozy: What We Lose When the Weird Gets Cute” co-written with Rebekah Sheldon, Samantha Chirtel, and Brianna Best in the Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2026 (link)
    • Subsequent response to a letter to the editor, “Response to Megan Milks and Amber Dawn Regarding ‘The New Qweird’” in the Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2026 (link)

academic writing and reviews

  • Review: Amber Jamilla Musser’s Between Shadows and Noise (2024) for the College Art Association reviews (link)
  • “Wholly, Holey Insufficient: Parasitism as a Critique of Meaning” in Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society ed. Peter Hitchcock for Bloomsbury Academic, 2026 (link)
  • “Fantasy Maps and Projective Fictions” in Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson for University of Delaware Press, 2025 (link) (available as open access!)
    • Winner of the George E. Haggerty Book Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship