My research focuses on modes of legal, literary, and social belonging and/or exclusion. Through the rubric of citizenship, my work examines how changing visions of the citizen and the performance of citizenship have either enabled or restricted social and legal membership, with a focus on the intersection of race and sexuality. I am currently working on a book project which argues that a strain of U.S. fiction at the turn of the twentieth century depicts the emergent category of queerness by challenging the exclusion of queer subjects from the fullest extent of U.S. membership.
My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Henry James Review, Nineteenth Century Literature, ASAP/Journal, and others; I also contribute to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Public Writing
Monuments, Revisited. ASAP/Reviews. October 2026
Towards a Democratic Academic Freedom. Inside Higher Ed. January 2025
A Day at the Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic at the Berkeley Bathhouse. Public Seminar. August 2022
The Classroom as Monument. The Rambling. September 2021
Reading with Sam See. Avidly, a Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. December 2020. (Archive)
“Let Go”: On Tommy Pico’s Feed. Los Angeles Review of Books. November 2019
Queer Desires, Queer Disagreements. Los Angeles Review of Books. February 2017
Love’s Inequality. Los Angeles Review of Books. March 2016
Peer Reviewed Journals
Academic Reviews
Review of Sam See’s Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies. ASAP/J. September 2020.
Interviews
In Depth with Poet Douglas Kearney. Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour. August 2017.
