Biography

Interests

Surrealism; Critical Theory; Urban Cultural Studies; Queer Studies

Working Dissertation

“The novel and the transient”: Queer Turns in Surrealism

Education

• B.A., Millsaps College
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

“Navigating Nihilism: Surrealism and Self-Representation in Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays.” Pacific Coast Philology (Special Issue on “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian”). Forthcoming, 2025.