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I am a PhD student in American literature at Washington University in St. Louis. I specialize in nineteenth-century American literature, and I am particularly interested in American pragmatism, cognitive literary studies, and science studies. My current research traces the stream of thought originating with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau that later appears in the American pragmatists, especially William James and John Dewey. Much of my research is not only multidisciplinary, but it also crosses national borders, for I often read German literature, especially Friedrich Nietzsche, within this stream of thought. For more information on my current research projects, click here.
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I will be at the John F. Kennedy Institute, part of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, on a Fulbright research grant for the 2020-2021 academic year (hopefully beginning January 2021 due to COVID-19).
I live in St. Louis with my beagle, Zooey.
View my current CV here.
I live in St. Louis with my beagle, Zooey.
View my current CV here.
Upcoming Events
September 2020: The (virtual) annual conference of the European Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, entitled Anthropocenes: Reworking the Wound will be open to the public. My paper is available (as a video recording): “‘These Brainless, Stationary Trunks Are Protecting Each Other’: Speculative Forest Thinking in the Anthropocene.”
November 2021, Granada, Spain (postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19): I will attend the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, entitled Transcreations: Creaturely Encounters as Cultural Artefacts. I will be presenting the paper “Thinking Like a Tree: Human Cognition and Speculative Forest Thinking.”
November 2021, Granada, Spain (postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19): I will attend the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, entitled Transcreations: Creaturely Encounters as Cultural Artefacts. I will be presenting the paper “Thinking Like a Tree: Human Cognition and Speculative Forest Thinking.”