English Department Faculty

Books

• The Persistence of the Aesthetic: Modernism and the Afterlives of Taste (in progress)
• Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason (Stanford University Press, 2016).

Edited Collections

• Co-editor with Jess Keiser. Forum on Robert Pippin’s Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts. Syndicate (forthcoming)
• Forum on Nathan Brown’s Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique. Syndicate (Fall, 2021).

Articles

• “Artworks and Persons.” Philosophy and Literature (forthcoming).
• “Criticism and Judgment.” ELH 87.4 (2020): 1105-1132.
• “Original Nonsense: Joyce, Duchamp, and Modernism’s Genius.” Modernism/Modernity 27.2 (2020): 339-360.
• “Novelty, Non-Conceptuality, and Aesthetic Experience.” diacritics (forthcoming).
• “Back to the Future: Late Modernism in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World.” Journal of Modern Literature 41.4 (2018, forthcoming).
• “Lingering: Pleasure, Desire, and Life in Kant’s Critique of Judgment.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32.2 (2018): 217-242.
• “Formalism, Mere Form, and Judgment.” New Literary History 48.2 (Spring 2017): 245-263.
• “Beautiful Things: Bruce Nauman’s Carousel.” Postmodern Culture 26.3 (May 2016): n.p.
• “Letters for the Blind.” SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 45.1 (Spring 2016): 81-97.
• “Abstract Pleasures: Romanticism and Finitism in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.” Modern Philology 111.2 (November 2013): 308-328.
• “The Persistence of the Aesthetic.” Frakcija: Performing Arts Magazine 68-69 (2013): 76-83.
• “Between the Science of the Sensible and the Philosophy of Art: Finitude in Alain Badiou’s Inaesthetics.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 15.2 (Summer 2010): 171-185.
• “Finite States: Toward a Kantian Theory of the Event.” diacritics 39.1 (Spring 2009): 61-74.
• “Eliot’s Last Laugh: The Dissolution of Satire in The Waste Land.” Journal of Modern Literature 32.2 (Winter 2009): 65-79.
•  “Allegories of Rending: Killing Time with Walter Benjamin.” New Literary History 39.2 (Spring 2008): 233-250.

Book Reviews

• “Attachment to What?” Response to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment. nonsite.org (Spring 2021).
• “Aesthetic Unconsolation.” Response to Paul North’s The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (with a reply by the author). Syndicate (Winter 2021).
• Review of Giorgio Agamben, Taste, trans. Cooper Francis (New York: Seagull Books, 2017). Critical Inquiry (2019): 812-813.
• Review of Eli Friedlander, Expressions of Judgment: An Essay on Kant’s Aesthetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). Critical Inquiry 42.1 (2015): 221-223.
• “Beauty That Must Die.” Review of Martin Hägglund, Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). Theory & Event 16.1 (2013): n.p.
• Review of Lecia Rosenthal, Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011). Modernist Cultures 7.1 (May 2012): 139-144.
• “Infinite Conversation.” Review of Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010). Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 53.1 (Winter 2011): 152-157.
• “Toward a Speculative Realism.” Review of Quentin Meillassoux, Après la finitude: Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence. (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006). Theory & Event 11.1 (2008): n.p.

Other Publications

•  “Entwining Literature and History.” Stanford University Press Blog (2016).