academic cv
academic cv
education:
MA: The University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM), Comparative Literature, December 2025 (expected)
masters thesis: "Toward a Liberated Erotic Civilization: a guide to the political philosophy of Guillaume Dustan" (committee: Rajeshwari Vallury as chair, Pim Higginson, Iain Thomson)
exchange year: lecteur at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), 2023-4
BA: Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), English & French Studies, May 2017 (Honors)
undergraduate thesis: "Memorial," a narrative analysis of Édouard Levé’s experimental autobiographical book Suicide (2008), examining how paratextual information informs the reading of the text, as well beginning to outline a history of the suicidal artist trope (chair: Douglas A Martin)
semester abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), Littérature Générale et Comparée
teaching experience:
three semesters (F'22, S'23, F'25) of two sections of French 1
one semester (F'24) of one section of French 3
two years of English language conversation sessions (TAPIF in Toulouse, 2017-8; Lecteur at Paris 3, 2023-24)
three years of experiential environmental education (ecology & ropes course team-building)
publications:
translation: Divine Genius by Guillaume Dustan (2001) for Semiotext(e) — forthcoming Fall 2025
book chapter: "Éros, Civilisation, Libération : la philosophie éthico-politique de Dustan," Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle — forthcoming Fall 2025
translation: Conversations with Sinziana Ravini, Ragnar Kjartansson and Michèle Benhaïm for Mater Éditions — October, 2024
awards:
Rowan Award, from the University of New Mexico, funding for PAMLA conference — October 16, 2024
conference presentations:
University of Pennsylvania, FIGGS Graduate Student Conference, "Reimagining Collage" (2025)
Paper presentation — "Writing in the era of the technical image: Guillaume Dustan’s literary and home video collages"
Philadelphia, PA — April 26, 2025
University of New Mexico, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference (2025)
Paper presentation — "Sticking it to Videodrome: Politics in the Privatized Virtual Public Sphere"
Panel chair — "Technologies of Knowing"
Albuquerque, NM — March 7-8, 2025
Southwest Popular and American Culture Association Conference (2025)
Paper presentation — "Sticking it to Videodrome: Politics in the Privatized Virtual Public Sphere"
Roundtable participant — "Cutting Up the Movie Ticket to the Naked Lunch Machine: Cronenberg, Burroughs, Gysin, and Adapting the Third Mind"
Albuquerque, NM — February 19-22, 2025
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) 121st Annual Conference (2024)
Paper presentation — "Guillaume Dustan's Queer Utopian Political Philosophy in Translation"
former Margaritaville Resort, Palm Springs CA — Nov 6-10, 2024
Society for French Studies Annual Conference (2024)
Paper presentation — "Tracing Autotheory's Queer French Lineage: Guillaume Dustan"
University of Stirling, Sussex UK — July 1-3, 2024
University of Warwick Legal & Political Theory Graduate Student Conference (2024)
Paper presentation — "Sticking it to Videodrome: Politics in the Privatized Virtual Public Sphere"
University of Warwick, Warwick UK — February 10, 2024
Southwest Popular and American Culture Association Summer Seminar (2023)
Paper presentation — "'Hair,' Hippies, and the Culture Industry: Adaptation as Deradicalizing Historicization"
online — June 9, 2023
University of New Mexico, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference (2023)
Paper presentation — "'Hair,' Hippies, and the Culture Industry: Adaptation as Deradicalizing Historicization"
Panel chair — "Mediated Temporalities"
Albuquerque, NM — April 8-9, 2023
University of New Mexico, Center for Teaching & Learning — "How Graduate Students Teach: Pedagogies, Learning, and Leading"
Mini-workshop on teaching the whole student — "Experiential Education in the University Classroom"
Albuquerque, NM — March 22, 2023
Southwest Popular and American Culture Association Conference (2023)
Paper presentation — "Revisiting the Culture Industry in the Internet Age" (panel — Philosophy and Popular Culture: Culture, Technology and Persons)
Albuquerque, NM — February 23, 2023
workshops:
2024 Northwestern University-Sorbonne Nouvelle Summer Institute for Psychoanalysis
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris — June 24-28, 2024