Publications
Public Forum
Left Out in the Cold
n+1 (25 Feb. 2022)
What Everyone Got Wrong About the Last Beijing Olympics’ Opening Ceremony
Slate (3 Feb. 2022)
The Red Ring and the Wrecking Ball
n+1 (3 Aug. 2021)
Stadium Arts
Public Books (14 Sept. 2018)
The Olympics Used to Feature Art Competitions…
Washington Post (13 Sept. 2017)
The Value of a Humanities Degree
Chronicle of Higher Education (5 June 2011)
Journal Articles
"Going for the Bronze: Modernism vs. the Old Guard at the Olympic Art Competitions." Modernism/modernity 28.4 (Nov. 2021): 761-89.
“Umpire, Empire: Kamau Brathwaite, Victorian Athletic Education, and the Literature of Self-Rule.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 52.1 (Jan 2021): 121-51.
“Revising Character, Revisionist History: Clarissa, Marlow, Stephen, Quentin, Bilbo.” Modern Language Studies. (Winter 2021)
"'Of the Devil's Party?' Thomas Stothard and the Nascent Romantic Satan." Cantor Arts Journal 6 (2011): 114-26.
Forthcoming
“Ancient Games in H.D.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sports Writing. (TBD)
Conferences and Colloquia
“Two Spectacles, Two Crowds: A Dialogue on Zhang Yimou’s Olympic Ceremonies, 2008 and 2022.” Dialogue: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. University of Michigan, February 2022. [video link]
“The Olympic Art Competitions of Paris 1924.” Workshop Conference: “Paris 1924: Body, Modernity, Nationhood.” Cambridge, UK, May 2020.
“World Champion Style: Black Fighters, Midcentury Writers, and the Cult of the Challenger-Celebrity.” Panel: Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980. American Literature Association, May 2019.
“‘Mortal Combat with the Best in Your Field’: Ancestors and Mentors in ‘A Storm of Blizzard Proportions.’” Round Table: Teaching Ellison in the Context of Other Writers (Ralph Ellison Society). American Literature Association, May 2019.
"Shell Shocked and Punch Drunk: Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, and the Trauma of the Veteran-Boxer." Panel: Transatlantic Shell Shock. Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, November 2018.
"Woolf and the War-Guilt Question: Teaching and Practicing Revisionism in Mrs. Dalloway." Panel: Virginia Woolf's Pedagogic Art: The Lecture, Then and Now. NeMLA, Pittsburgh, April 2018.
"The Olympic Art Competitions and Contemporary Olympic Aesthetics." Panel: Sport, Aesthetics, and Media. International Conference on Sport, Olympic Games, and Media, Lisbon, March 2018.
“Matisse’s Ulysses: Visible Revisions.” Harvard-Yale Book History Conference, Cambridge, April 2017.
“Long-Distance Reading: Statistics of the Olympic Artistic Pentathlon, 1912-1948.” Harvard English Graduate Symposium, November 2016.
“Pan-athletics: Pierre de Coubertin and the Olympic Art Competitions of Paris 1924,” Panaesthetics: A Colloquium on the Visual Arts, Literature, and Music, Harvard Mahindra Center, May 2016 (Respondent: Caroline Jones, MIT).
Position papers for Modernist Studies Association seminars
“The Field and its Referees,” for “Modernist Institutions,” 2018
“Olympic Eurythmics: Arts, Sports, and Crowds,” for “Modernism’s Physiological Aesthetics,” 2016
“Gold Medals and Golden Boughs,” for “Global Modernists on Modernism,” 2015