Recent articles
Working thoughts, field notes, reflections, and essays—written alongside research, teaching, and travel.
Seeing Monsters: Reading Frankenstein in the Age of Misrecognition
The Creature's worst wound isn't the one Victor gives him in the lab. It's the one he gives himself, months later, kneeling at a forest pool and seeing his own reflection for the first time.
Office Hours are Now Open
This isn't a pitch. It's an invitation.
Field Notes: Denmark
On reading Ditlevsen from the wrong city — and why that turned out to be exactly right.
Reading Against the Machine: Brave New World and Foucault’s Rank and File
Why is Brave New World still so relevant in 2026? Explore Aldous Huxley’s dystopia alongside Michel Foucault’s theory of disciplinary power, algorithmic control, consumer culture, and modern political life.
The Invisible Discipline: Why Literature Didn't Make the List
David Orr's 'Earth in Mind' makes a brilliant case for interdisciplinary education while committing the very sin it diagnoses.
Cross-Cultural Reading Lab: Travel as Literary Criticism
Using travel to challenge Western literary assumptions. The Cross-Cultural Reading Lab practices secular criticism through displaced, embodied reading in foreign spaces.
The Cross Cultural Reading Lab
Reading across difference, on purpose
The Lab is a living research practice devoted to reading beyond one's habitual borders—across cultures, languages, traditions, and ways of making meaning.
Here you'll find field notes from reading while traveling, reflections on translation, essays on cross-cultural interpretation, and experiments in method.
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