Reading as a practice, not a productivity hack.
The Readist is a personal, evolving project by a working scholar. It's a place for slow reading, cross-cultural thinking, and serious conversation—without algorithms, deadlines, or performance.
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Working thoughts, field notes, reflections, and essays—written alongside research, teaching, and travel.
How to Read Theory: 8 Strategies for Understanding Complex Texts
Learn how to start reading theory with these 8 practical tips. From choosing the right tools to understanding historical context, make complex texts accessible.
What We Call a String: On Love, Dependency, and the Self
The point isn’t whether Jane Eyre ends happily. It’s whether we know what binds us in the first place.
Reflections on the Road to The Road
I'm still compiling my thoughts on this novel. Feels a bit like deep therapy.
On Being Memory
Thinking about memory, consciousness, identity, and stories as the palimpsests of ourselves. But mostly about my grandparents and Bruce Willis.
Harlem Duet: Singing past ambivalence in Ellison's 'Invisible Man'
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man reveals a world where identity is shrouded, and voices are forced into silence. It’s a journey into the hidden language of the unseen.
Mornings are for Plotting: An Ode to that Spot on the Ceiling
A hello world of sorts, and an explaination that clarifies little
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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