I work on global literary and aesthetic modernism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.

I am currently the Franke Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, where I am contributing to the 2024-25 Franke Lectures and Seminar on the topic of “Architectures of Illness.”

I completed a PhD in the Department of English at Brown University in 2024. My dissertation is entitled “The Ornamental Unconscious: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and the Functions of Form.” I’m currently at work on a book based on my dissertation research, which traces an enduring hermeneutic tension across 20th-century literature, art, architecture, and the psychoanalytic clinic: between the desire to strip form down to pure functionality and to indulge in the ornamental, useless, often dysfunctional excesses of form.

Attending to the dynamic circulation of aesthetic movements and theories of subjectivity and mental illness across the Atlantic in the first half of the 20th century, “The Ornamental Unconscious” argues that modernist literature negotiates emergent contradictions between form as a transparent reflection of use and as utility’s excessive antagonism. Ornament names the formal logic of surplus, emptiness, and error at the heart of modernity’s crisis of meaning. In readings of formally experimental literary texts originating from London and Dublin to Caracas and Buenos Aires, each chapter illuminates facets of an “ornamental unconscious” coursing through transnational modernist literature, visual culture, and psychoanalytic theory.

My research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, The Comparatist, and The Journal of Beckett Studies.

I am an editor at Parapraxis, differences, and Critical Times.