Curriculum

Vitae

Current Work

Academic and Research Director, Temple University Libraries, Scholars Studio

Executive Director, Philly Community Wireless

Managing Editor, Programming Historian in English

Translations

Letter to the Americans, by Jean Cocteau, New Directions (2022)

Dramaturgy

Interzone, Bernhard Lang, Librettist (2024)

The Travel Agency is on Fire, Bernhard Lang (2022)

Decoder, Mallory Catlett (2016-23)

The Travel Agency is On Fire, James Ilgenfritz and Experiments in Opera (2015)

Edited Books

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century, IU Press (2019)

The Travel Agency is on Fire, CUNY Lost & Found (2015)

The Renaissance of Roland Barthes, The Conversant (2014)

Articles

“Text mining YouTube Comment Data with Wordfish in R,” Programming Historian in English (2023)

“Machine Learning Methods for Systematic Reviews: A Rapid Scoping Review,” Delaware Journal of Public Health (2023)

“A Conversation with the Organizers of Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online(SUCHO),” Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement (2022)

“The New Wave of Digital Collections: Speculating on the Future of Library Curation,” Transactions of APS (2020)

“Game-Based Design for Inclusive and Accessible Digital Exhibits,” A Third Library is Possible, CLIR Curated Futures Project (2020)

“Immersive Pedagogy: Developing a Decolonial and Collaborative Framework for Teaching and Learning in 3D/VR/AR,” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (2020)

“The Virtual Blockson: Immersive Technologies for Teaching Primary source Literacy on the African Diaspora,” dh+lib (2020)

"Decoding the Reality Studio," PAJ: Journal of Performance and Art (2020)

"The Order and the Material is the Message," American Book Review (2020)

“The Accursed Share,” D.H. Lawrence Review (2020)

“Roland Barthes after 1968: Critical Theory in the Cynical Era of New Media,” The Yearbook of Comparative Literature (2016)

“Implicating the Confessor,” Twentieth Century Literature (2010)

Book Chapters

"Developing a Legal Framework for Curating Copyrighted Literary Data,” Text Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, ACRL (2025)

“Alternative Infrastructures for Digital Equity: Community-Based Internet Access,” Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities: Debates in the Digital Humanities, UMinn Press (2025)

“On the Periphery: Decentering Graduate Pedagogy in Libraries and Digital Humanities Centers,” Digital Futures of Graduate Study, UMinnesota Press (2024)

“Digitizing the ‘Word Hoard’: Counter-Cultural Archives of the American Century," Burroughs Unbound, Bloomsbury Press (2020)

“William S. Burroughs’s Imperial Decadence: Subversive Literature in the Cynical Age of the American Century," William S Burroughs Cutting Up the Century, Indiana University Press (2019)

Interviews

"Promiscuous Autobiography on Facebook: An Interview with Samuel Delany, Part II", Los Angeles Review of Books (2020)

"Stonewall, Before and After: An Interview with Samuel Delany, Part I", Los Angeles Review of Books (2020)

Reviews

"Interdisciplinary Barthes," Theory, Culture, and Society (2021)

"The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation," L'Esprit Createur (2018)

"Fear of the Deeps: On Alain Guiraudie's "Now The Night Begins", Los Angeles Review of Books (2018)

Residencies

Watermill Arts Center (2019)

Mabou Mines (2018)

Mt. Tremper Arts (2017)

Collapsible Hole (2017)

Education

Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2017)

M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago (2009)

Certificate of Proficiency in French, McGill University (2008)

B.A., Liberal Arts, Vassar College (2007)