Education
2010 - Ph.D. - Cornell University
Teaching and Research Interests
- Twentieth-century French literature
- Literary theory
- Comparative modernisms
- Comparative romanticisms
- Continental philosophy
Selected Publications
Books
- With Warren Montag, eds. Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production. (Northwestern UP, 2022)
- The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016)
Articles
- “Critical Thinking.” New Literary History 52, no. 2 (2021): 191-209.
- “Spinoza and the Claims of Meaning: ‘A Word to the Wise.’” diacritics 47.2 (2019): 106-127.
- “How Do We Recognise Problems?” Deleuze Studies Journal 11.1 (2017): 48-67.
- “Hyperbole in Proust.” Modern Language Notes 129.4 (2014): 829-54.
- “What is a Literary Problem? Proust, Beckett, Deleuze.” Frakcija: International Performing Arts Magazine 64/65 (2013): 114-121.
- “A Relentless Spinozism: Deleuze’s Encounter with Beckett.” SubStance 41.1 (2012): 124-36.
- “From Figure to Fissure: Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.” Modern Philology 109.2 (2011): 245-265.
- “Deleuze’s Expressionism.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 12.2 (2007). 49-66.
Book Chapters
- With Warren Montag, Introduction to Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production (Northwestern UP, 2022), 1-16.
- “Why Read, Macherey?” In Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production, eds. Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser (Northwestern UP, 2022), 29-42.
- “On Several Regimes of Signs,” In A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy, eds. Jeffrey Bell, Henry Somers-Hall, James Williams (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 83-98.
Works in Progress
- On Literary Judgement (book manuscript)
- Analogy and Justification in the work of Gilbert Simondon (article)