current projects & research interests

How Very: The Oral history of Heathers

A chronicle of the making of the 1989 film, its musical adaptation, its cancelled television reboot, and the film’s enduring and transgressive legacy.

and but so: the guide to reading (and finishing) infinite Jest.

A casual reading companion for readers hoping to tackle David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus.

Strangest things: the cinema of mkultra

A trippy tour through cinema’s attempts to represent the US government’s stranger-than-fiction experiments with mind control.

David Foster Wallace: Authorship and Consent

This book-length project will examine David Foster Wallace’s evolving authorial presence and relationship with the reader through the lens of authorship and discourses of consent, beginning with his early work that largely views the author as a dominant seducer through to his mature work that views the author as a figure who must cultivate a relationship with the reader and receive their consent in order to communicate to his last works which broaden this view of authorship and consent to the political sphere.