Scholarship
Scholarship
As a scholar, I research gay men’s media cultures, with particular interest in how literature and pornography contour gay identity in the 20th and 21st centuries. I received my PhD in English Language and Literature in 2024 from the University of Chicago. I am currently at work on a monograph, titled The Gender of Gay Men: Identification, Sexual Cultures, and the Afterlives of the Inversion Model, which analyzes how gay male sexuality has provoked gendered positions, identifications, allegiances, and conflicts. Its aim is to rewrite our sense of the relationship between gay studies, trans studies, and women’s studies.
I am currently appointed as Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where I teach courses on sexuality, gender, pornography, and narrative.
Academic Reviews
Review of Tim Dean and Oliver Davis’s Hatred of Sex, forthcoming at GLQ, 2025
Review of Ramzi Fawaz’s Queer Forms, at Critical Inquiry, 2024
Review of Kathleen Lubey’s What Pornography Knows, at Critical Inquiry (2023)
Review of Queer Necropolitics, edited by Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, and Silvia Posocco, at Journal of Modern Literature (2017)
Recorded Talks
“The Porn Star After OnlyFans and SESTA/FOSTA” panel moderator at UChicago Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (2021)
“The Death of Arpad Miklos” talk for the Viral Masculinities Conference at the University of Exeter (2020)
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“Lou’s Men: Sameness, Leo Bersani, and the Legacy of Lou Sullivan,” at TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (2024)
“On Crowd Sex: Crowd Psychology, Crowd Pornography, and Fleapit” forthcoming in The Sex Scene: Space, Place, and Industry, edited by Donna Peberdy and Darren Kerr, University of Edinburgh Press
“The Whiteness of François Sagat” at Porn Studies (2020)
Other Public-Facing Criticism
“Review of “Death And” by Yarrow Yes Woods" at Another Chicago Magazine (2024)
“Unreadability” Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 at Harriet (2023)
“On Loss, Loss Writing, and Our Forms for Living” at Jacket2 (2022)
“Lauren Berlant’s Phraseology: An Impression” at Gulf Coast Journal (2022)
“On Barbara Guest’s ‘20’” in The Difference is Spreading: 50 Poets on 50 Poems (2022) (Print only)
“Gustavo Ojeda: Reintroduced” at Tripwire 18 (2021) (Print only)
Omnibus Review of three books by Lou Sullivan, Zach Ozma, and Oliver Baez Bendorf at The Chicago Review (2019)
Review of Uche Nduka’s Living in Public at Entropy (2018)
Review of Mg Roberts's Anemal Uter Meck at Jacket2 (2017)
Review of Chely Lima's Lo que les dijo el Licántropo / What the Werewolf Told Them at Entropy (2017)
Review of Angel Dominguez's Black Lavender Milk at Jacket2 (2016)
2024 Scholarly CV Available HERE