I am an associate professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

My research and teaching center on early modern literature and the environmental humanities with special focus on queer and psychoanalytic theory.

I am the author of The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), The Earth Is Evil (University of Nebraska Press, “Provocations” series,” forthcoming), and Divest: An Essay on Political Masochism (University of Minnesota Press, “Forerunners” series, under contract). I am a coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, “Superimpositions” series, 2024). My articles have appeared in differences, Critical Inquiry, Discourse, Cultural Critique, Criticism, and elsewhere. I am working on two books: “Unknowing Sex: Shakespeare against the Historicists” and “Playing with Fire: David Lynch and the Climate Crisis.”

I received my Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Before arriving at Baruch, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University. I serve on the editorial board of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.

A selection of my published work is available at Humanities Commons. I tweet as @cat_unconscious.

Critical theory & the environmental humanities at Baruch.

Books

  • Divest: An Essay on Political Masochism (University of Minnesota Press, “Forerunners” series, under contract).

  • The Earth Is Evil (University of Nebraska Press, “Provocations” series, forthcoming).

  • Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored with Jean-Thomas Tremblay (Northwestern University Press, “Superimpositions” series, 2024).

Interviews

Articles

Chapters

  • “Nature.” In The Routledge Guide to Politics and Literature in English, edited by Matthew Stratton, 387-396. New York: Routledge, 2023. Accepted and forthcoming.

  • “The Clamor of Things: Moffett’s Gnats, Spenser’s Complaints.” In Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance, edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana, 77-95. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2023.

  • “On Eating, the Animal that Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus.” In The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals, edited by Holly Dugan and Karen Raber, 256-269. New York: Routledge, 2020.

  • “Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale.” In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, edited by Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw, 197-216. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

  • “Milton’s Queer Earth: A Geology of Exhausted Life.” In Queer Milton, edited by David Orvis, 255-291. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.