Selected Short Stories and essays
“The Powerpuff Girls, “Pilot: A Spoonful of Sugar,” January 1999” Bluestem (2026)
“What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions that Shape Fiction—And Ourselves.” Lithub (2025).
“Buzzkill.” The Offing (2025)
“Pocket God.” LIT Magazine (2024)
“Chickenshit.” JMWW (2022)
“The Death of the Superhero: The Crime of Killing of Good & Evil.” Crimereads (2019)
“Cursed Rain.” Pithead Chapel (2014)
SCHOLARSHIP
“Narrative Scarring in The Underground Railroad.” Modern Fiction Studies 72.1 (2026)
“Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoeisis in ‘The Circular Ruins’ and The People of Paper.” American Literature 95.4 (2023)
“‘The Utter Blankness Found Within’: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves.” Poetics Today 44.3 (2023)
“Zahi Zalloua’s Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy.” Symploke, 27.1-2 (2019)
“Sense and Supersensibility: Kantian Aesthetics in Lamarckian Evolutionary Theory.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 27.3 (2019)
“Speculative Realism.” Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory, Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo, Bloomsbury, 2018.
“The Seismic Force of Stone: A Review of Jeffrey J. Cohen’s Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman.”
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 24.4 (2016)
“Postmodernism’s Material Turn: A Review of Christopher Breu’s The Insistence of the Material.” Postmodern Culture 25.3 (2016).
“The Hyperobject’s Atomization of ‘Self’ in Gravity’s Rainbow.” Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 3.1 (2015)