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I’m a Lecturer at Stanford in the Structured Liberal Education program, an intensive introduction to the humanities for freshmen taught in residence. I got my PhD from the English Department at Harvard University in May of 2019. My research focuses on modernist literature and the arts, with a specialization in twentieth-century world literature and the culture of international sports.

Recently, I’ve been writing about the Olympics and the arts for Slate, n+1, and the Washington Post, with a recent article in Modernism/modernity. I’ve also written about the intersection of international contests, world literature, and the arts for ARIEL and Public Books.

My current book project is about the reaction among writers and artists to the rise of international sport—and their use of stadium crowds as a political audience—using the Cultural Olympiad of 1968 as a focal point. Going back to the Olympic Art Competitions of 1912-1948, my research ranges from the archival to the digital, making use of the papers at the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne (and elsewhere) as well as expanding artwork-databases. 

Before starting as a Lecturer at Stanford, I worked as a Teaching Assistant or Fellow for the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute, Harvard's Expos and GenEd, and edX. I've also designed and taught three of my own courses: a Wintersession introduction to Ulysses  called "J(oyce)-Term" and two honors seminars. I've also helped design two online courses, on Ancient and Modern Masterpieces of World Literature. In addition to teaching for SLE, I currently teach courses for Stanford English and Continuing Studies.

After getting my BA from Stanford in 2011, I worked for two years at Oxford University Press in New York, first in English Language Teaching and then in neuroscience. In my time at Harvard, I was co-coordinator for the British and Anglophone Literature Colloquium and Assistant Director for the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research.

In my free time, I like to edit videos, play pick-up sports, take too many pictures of my dog, and design board games. I've also got a novel that I periodically talk about revising and never do.