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Research Interests

I study history, literature, and time, and use creative writing as an historical method. My dissertation, "Deep History and Genre: A Case for Experimentation," engages histories on the order of thousands, millions, and billions of years, explores how these histories can alter our sense of the present and politics in the present, and shows how different forms of writing can make these histories imaginable and felt. 

Biography, Education and Training

• BA in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College.
• MA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, Annapolis.

Honors, Awards and Grants

I am currently the Hayden V. White dissertation fellow in historical theory, supported by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. 

Selected Publications

• "Burial." Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory & Practice. 2023. 
• "The Body-Loving Philosophers." The Anthology of Babel. 2020. 
• "The Deep History of Police." ROAR Magazine. 2020.
• "La profunda historia de la policía." El Salto Diario. 2020. 

Teaching Interests

At UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere, I have taught courses on the following: pedgagogy; classics of world literature; states and empires in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and early China; American literary movements; freshman composition; and dialogue. As a teaching assistant, I have worked in courses on playwriting, writing for artists, Buddhist studies, and the history of drama. My teaching interests are wide-ranging, and I stress dialogue, close reading, and artful writing in my classrooms.