Curriculum
Vitae
Writer, editor, translator
archiver, text miner, dramaturg
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017-Present
Council of Library Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow
Temple University, Samuel L. Paley Library, Digital Scholarship Center
EDUCATION
2017 Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
2009 M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago
2007 B.A., Liberal Arts, Vassar College
Edited Books
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century, Eds. with Joan Hawkins
Indiana University Press, 2019
Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, 5.2, 2015
The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
Special Issue of The Conversant, 2014
Articles
“The Accursed Share: Primitivism, Misogyny, and Decadent Sacrifice in D.H. Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent and “The Woman Who Rode Away”
D.H. Lawrence Review, 2018
“Roland Barthes after 1968: Critical Theory in the Cynical Era of New Media”
The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, 2018
“Implicating the Confessor: The Autobiographical Ploy in William S.
Burroughs’s Early Works”
Twentieth Century Literature 56.4 (Winter 2010): 493-529
Book Chapters
“William S. Burroughs’s Imperial Decadence: Subversive Literature in the
Cynical Age of the American Century." William S. Burroughs Cutting Up
the Century, Eds. Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan, Indiana University
Press (2019): 318-347
Translations
Letter to the Americans, from Jean Cocteau’s Lettre aux Américains (1949)
New Directions, 2019
Reviews
"Fear of the Deeps: On Alain Guiraudie's "Now The Night Begins"
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
Conference Proceedings
“The New Wave of Digital Collections: Innovating Library Curation of Multifaceted Datasets,” Special Issue of the Proceedings of the
American Philosophical Society, 2019
“Decoder 2017: Cutting Up the Reality Studio,” Co-Authored with Mallory
Catlett and Lucas G. Crane, Ammerman Center Art and Technology 2018 Symposium Proceedings, 2018